I stumbled over the following video and thought that it might be a nice idea if members of this community show a bit of their country.
And with this vid Im going to make a start...
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I stumbled over the following video and thought that it might be a nice idea if members of this community show a bit of their country.
And with this vid Im going to make a start...
Hello,
I think my home country (Russia) is better represented by its nature rather than human settlements.
Here you can see some truly amazing places:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:winners_of_wiki_loves_earth_in_russia_by_year
Also I can recommend shortlisted images from 2017 and 2018:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:shortlisted_images_of_wiki_loves_earth_2017_in_russia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:shortlisted_images_of_wiki_loves_earth_2018_in_russia
By the way, there are similar collections from many other countries over the world:
Well, this inspired me to dig up some of the photos I've taken. I'm not good at photography and don't usually take photos very often, so there isn't many.
So, here it goes.
Approaching Slyudyanka, southern shore of Lake Baikal. I took this photo on my way to my birthplace village.
On the way back (by train, you can see the tracks)
Irkut River. I took this photo during one of my bicycle rides.
The look from one of the windows of ISTP. Yes, this is within the town, I think it's a part of Irkutsk Bothany Garden. Also this one is recent.
whats that white stuff?
yep
Well... I consider myself both bulgarian and greek (origin), but since I was born and raised in Bulgaria, you know which country I am going to present.
Long story short, we have around 1300-1500 of official history, our exact origin in unknown... according to historians and researchers, we come from the area of nowaday Afganistan or Iran, but who knows... there used to be a great country there known as "Bactria" that some researchers think it was our very first state (before Old Great Bulgaria), but again... who knows. The origin of the name "Bulgaria", the right way to pronounce it is bulgAriya (България) and NOT bulgEria, that name comes from the root word "Bulgar / Българ" which means "Strength" because we were a warrior nation. It was ruled by the Khans (short for the title - Khanasubigi), which later on was changed to Tsar (yes, it's a bulgarian title, not russian) that came from Caesar -> Emperor. The word for 'king' in our language is "Крал / Kral".
I am not going to bore you, so I am trying to keep this short. When we came to the Balkans, our anatogonist was the Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire - Easter Roman Empire), we were their chief enemy. They recognized us as a state and were forced to pay us an annual tribute, can you imagine The Empire recognizing a state let alone paying them an annual tribute? -> The people in the past were more afraid of us than the Romans, one example is the Battle for Constantinople in 717 when the Islam Caliphate was on a conquest to conquer Europe but was stopped by the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantines by sea. The romans were calling for our help to repel them, so we answered the call and we slayed them at land, the romans at sea with the famous Greek Fire.
Anywho... I am going to post you a YouTube channel that you can enjoy in case you're interested:
Medieval Glory playlist (Keeps getting updated) -> Not to worry, it has english subtitles, feel free to enable them in the menu
It was fast search, but below posted videos are about nice places in Czech Republic.
And below it you like nature |