Literature The Bedouin poem in the vernacular for the legacy of the ancient Arab Bedouin poem continued in present-day Saudi Arabia, while the literature today is cultivated in the cities. Here the older generation dominates. Poetry is traditional in form and content, e.g. at Abdallah al-Faysal, who writes singable poems, and at Hassan Abdallah al-Qurashi. Ghazi al-Qusaybi creates a freer form of conventional love poetry. A social and political commitment…
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Water supply As the country lacks groundwater, the residents were previously completely referenced to collect rainwater. During the late 1900’s, freshwater imports became increasingly important. It is transported by pipeline from Johor in the southernmost of Malaysia and at the turn of the century covered almost all of the country’s water needs. Countryaah: Population and demographics of Singapore, including population pyramid, density map, projection, data, and distribution. The increase in…
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Literature Literature in Sri Lanka has been strongly dominated by Buddhism. Much of the extensive commentary literature on Palikanon is written in Ceylon, and the Sinhalese was used as a commentary language and in translations as well as in the editing of palite texts. The Sinhalese literature has consistently been written on a traditional and literary variant of the language, elu, used in inscriptions from the 7th century. Preserved works…
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Film The Korean film had its first success in 1946 with Choi In Kyu’s “Jayu-manse” (“Hurray for Freedom”), a film about a resistance group at war against the Japanese occupying power. The Korean War almost wiped out the young film industry, and during the fighting, only 5-6 films a year were produced in the South Korean cities of Busan and Taegu. However, following the standstill agreement in 1953, the supply…
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Literature After early attempts at authoring from the end of the 19th century, the fictional prose first became an accepted art form in the 1930’s. Key year is 1937, when the first mature Syrian novel, “The Greed” (not in Swedish translation) by Shakib al-Jabiri was published, and in 1944, when the short story collection, “A wound of history” (not in Swedish translation) by Fuad ash-Shaib was published. The literary direction…
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Literature Tajikistan’s classical literature forms part of Persian literature. Many of the Iranian poets worked in eastern Iran, which included the current Tajikistan, including Rudaki, who is considered the father of both the Persian and the Tajik poets. When Central Asia was isolated from Iran in the 16th century, the trend towards a specific Tajik literature began, and from the end of the 19th century the classical ideals began to…
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Literature During the 1950’s, anti-communist works dominated without literary value. Since the beginning of the 1960’s, the white essence, the central empire, which is often rooted in classical traditions but which also includes modernist works inspired by surrealism, and the historical novel are the foremost of the genres. Young writers in the circle of the Modern Literature magazine (founded in 1960) were strongly influenced by Western trends, mainly by Joyce,…
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Literature Among older literature is King Ramkhamhaeng’s stone inscription from the Sukhothai period (1238-1419) and ※Suphasit Phraruang§ (※King Ruang’s thinking language§), one of the most well-known examples of the poetic form suphasite. “Traiphum Phraruang” is a prose work, supposedly written in 1345 by King Lithai. It tells about the underground, the earth and the sky as well as an upcoming utopian society and has had a great influence on Thai…
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Literature and theater When the Turks came to Asia Minor in the 1000’s, they brought with them a rich oral tradition. The poetry of the chief poets was increasingly influenced by Persian and Arabic literature, both formally and linguistically, and became difficult to access for the people. Yunus Emre, the great mystic of the 13th century, united in his poems the two directions, which then developed in parallel. During the…
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Literature The motifs in the oldest Turkmenic sago tax are common to the Turkish and Iranian peoples of the area and developed into orally traditioned epics of both heroic and romantic nature. The most famous verse story is “Kör-oglu” (“The Son of the Blind”, 16th-16th century), with a vengeance at the center. A classic in the 18th century Turkmen word art was Mahtumkuli, who renewed the lyrical form. Countryaah: Population…
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Literature Among the Turkmen in Central Asia, the uz cups possess the richest literary heritage. Records of folk poetry exist from the 11th century, and even more popular today are the anecdotes about Nasreddin hodscha, a Turkish To Eulenspiegel. As the Uzbek national call is counted Alisjer Navoi, who in his very extensive love lyric and philosophical poems, among others. in “Hamze” (‘Five Poems’, 1483-85), the Uzbek language’s distinctiveness asserted…
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Literature, drama and theater An oral tradition of folk poetry in the form of songs, fairy tales and sayings was the oldest literature in Vietnamese. During the Chinese Empire, Chinese was a literary language, and it was not until the 13th century that a written Vietnamese poem began to emerge. It was written all the way back to the 19th century with nôm, a difficult to access, written Chinese language…
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Congo (Brazzaville) The flag was introduced in 1992 when it replaced the Soviet-inspired flag from 1970. The color green-yellow-red is the traditional Pan-African. Kenya The flag was established in 1963. The design is based on a 1952 flag introduced for the independence movement. In the color symbol, black stands for the people, red for its blood, green for the country. The emblem of shield and spear wants to recall the…
Read MorePolitical System of the Philippines
Since the independence of the United States in 1946, the Philippines has been a unified state, and in principle democratic, republic. Following the 1987 Constitution, the country has a political system similar to the American one. The executive is led by a president-elect for six years. A president cannot stand for election for a new term. The president heads the government and appoints the ministers. He or she is also…
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