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Galia Yardeni
Galia may refer to: People Given name *Galia Ackerman (born 1948), French-Russian writer and translator * Galia Angelova (born 1972), Bulgarian tennis player * Galia Dvorak (born 1988), Spanish table tennis player * Galia Moss, Mexican adventurer *Galia Sabar (born 1963), Israeli professor *Galia Solomonoff (born 1968), Argentinian-born architect and creative director *Galia Yishai (1950-2020), Israeli actress Surname *Jean Galia (1905-1949), a French rugby footballer *Martin Galia (born 1979), Czech handball player *Roberto Galia (born 1963), Italian football player and coach Places *Gália, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil *Galia, Greece, a village on the island of Crete, Greece * Ge'alya, a moshav in Israel * Nueva Galia, a village in Argentina Other uses * Galia (melon), a type of melon similar to a cantaloupe *Galia, the name of the Queen Amanoa character in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe *'' Galia (film)'', a 1966 film directed by Georges Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia Ackerman
Galina Ackerman or usually Galia Ackerman () (born 1948) is a French-Russian writer, historian, journalist, translator, researcher at the University of Caen, specializing on Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She was also a translator for slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Biography Galia Ackerman was born in 1948 into a Russian Jewish family. She holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and is an associate researcher at the University of Caen. Crossing Chernobyl In 1998, Galia Ackerman translated into French the 'Chernobyl Prayer' by Svetlana Alexievich, a documentary about the Chernobyl disaster. While working on the translation, she traveled in the poisoned territories called 'Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Zone' (short for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone), in Belarus, and interviewed local well-known personalities about the nuclear catastrophe. When she published her gathered stories about 'Zone', the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia, Greece
Galia ( el, Γαλιά) is a village in Greece located from Heraklion, and is administratively part of the municipal unit of Moires. It lies at an altitude of , surrounded by hills. It commands an imposing view south to the Messara Plain and to the Asterousia mountain range, west to the Libyan Sea and north to the Psiloritis mountain. It has 1036 residents, mainly farmers. Galia is one of the oldest villages in the area. It is mentioned in Venetian records as early as 1577, and as a village with 120 residents since 1583. The Renaissance tower in the village and the water fountains in the Kapeloniana area are proof of the passing of the Venetians. Part of the village, called Monohoro, is mentioned as early as 800. It is where the old church of the Virgin Mary, built in 852, is located. The village was under Turkish occupation and later German during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallia
Gaul ( la, Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy (only during Republican era, Cisalpina was annexed in 42 BC to Roman Italy), and Germany west of the Rhine. It covered an area of . According to Julius Caesar, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania. Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture, which extended across all of Gaul, as well as east to Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, Gaul fell under Roman rule: Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 204 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of Gaul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia Lahav
Galia Lahav is a fashion label established in 1984 in Tel Aviv. It was founded by fashion designer Galia Lahav. The brand is primarily known for its bridal and evening wear. In January 2017, it became the first Israeli brand to be accepted by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture and to present in Paris Fashion Week. As of 2019, the brand is represented by 70 stores across 40 countries. Singer Beyoncé wore a Galia Lahav bridal gown to renew her vows. History Galia Lahav was born in Pinsk, Belarus. Lahav emigrated with her family to Israel in 1957, and grew up in southern Israel, in the city of Ashkelon. In 2005, after operating for more than 2 decades in the Israeli market, Galia's son, Idan Lahav, had joined the company as the CEO and helped expand the company's operations to the international market. In a Forbes interview, Lahav shared how technology and data-driven approach has helped the brand penetrate the global arena. "Galia Lahav continues to look to the paradoxes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981. He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr. Biography Career Filmography As director * 1958: ''La Môme aux boutons'' * 1960: '' Arrêtez les tambours'' * 1960: ' * 1961: '' Le Monocle noir'' * 1962: '' Le Septième juré'' * 1962: '' En plein cirage'' * 1962: '' L'Œil du Monocle'' * 1963: '' Les Tontons flingueurs'' * 1964: ''Salad by the Roots'' * 1964: ''Le Monocle rit jaune'' * 1964: ''Les Barbouzes'' * 1965: '' Les Bons Vivants'', co-directed with Gilles Grangier * 1966: ' * 1966: ' * 1967: ' * 1968: ' * 1968: ' * 1971: ''Road to Salina'' * 1971: ' * 1972: ' * 1973: ' * 1973: '' Quelques m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia (film)
Galia may refer to: People Given name *Galia Ackerman (born 1948), French-Russian writer and translator *Galia Angelova (born 1972), Bulgarian tennis player * Galia Ble (born 2011) *Galia Dvorak (born 1988), Spanish table tennis player * Galia Moss, Mexican adventurer * Galia Sabar (born 1963), Israeli professor *Galia Solomonoff (born 1968), Argentinian-born architect and creative director *Galia Yishai (1950-2020), Israeli actress Surname *Jean Galia (1905-1949), a French rugby footballer *Martin Galia (born 1979), Czech handball player *Roberto Galia (born 1963), Italian football player and coach Places * Gália, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil *Galia, Greece, a village on the island of Crete, Greece *Ge'alya, a moshav in Israel *Nueva Galia, a village in Argentina Other uses * Galia (melon), a type of melon similar to a cantaloupe *Galia, the name of the Queen Amanoa character in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe *'' Galia (film)'', a 1966 film di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Amanoa
''Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi'' is a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics between 1993 and 1998. They are part of the fictional ''Star Wars'' expanded universe, and cover the Great Sith War and the Great Hyperspace War. The series represented the earliest chronological ''Star Wars'' stories until the publication of the ''Dawn of the Jedi'' series of comics and novels. The first books released covered the Great Sith War (3,996 BBY, or Before the Battle of Yavin). The latter were prequels that covered the Great Hyperspace War, which happened a thousand years earlier. Summary The Great Hyperspace War was instigated when two Republic hyperspace explorers accidentally crash-landed on the Sith graveyard planet Korriban during the funeral procession of Marka Ragnos. His successor, Naga Sadow, provoked war with the Republic, and installed himself as the leader of the Sith Empire. He fought not only the Republic, but the forces of his chief rival, Ludo Kressh, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia (melon)
The Galia melon, also known as sarda in Southeast Asia, is a type of F1 hybrid melon originating from a cross between the green-flesh melon cultivar 'Ha-Ogen' and the netted-rind melon cultivar 'Krimka'. Developed in Israel at the Ne´ve Yaar Research Center of the Agricultural Research Organisation by the melon breeder Dr. Zvi Karchi, and released in 1973, the Galia melon was named after Karchi's daughter, whose name means "God's wave" in Hebrew. According to the trade type definition, the fruits of the Galia have the following characteristics: the average weight for a Galia melon is one kilogram. They have a rounded shape, a dense netting of rough lines on the skin, and become yellow at full maturity; they are sweet and aromatic, with a special aroma and flavor and a very high content of total soluble solids (values up to 18° are possible, although the minimum value to be considered commercially mature is 11°). Ripeness is measured not by softness at the stem, but rather by c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nueva Galia
Nueva Galia is a village and municipality in San Luis Province in central Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th .... References {{coord, 35, 07, S, 65, 15, W, display=title, region:AR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in San Luis Province ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ge'alya
Ge'alya, sometimes written Galia ( he, גְּאַלְיָה), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1948 by immigrants from Bulgaria, on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Qubayba, which was depopulated in 1948. It is located south of the ancient site of Tel Shalaf, where Iron Age artifacts have been found. Tel Shalaf, is identified by some but not all scholars with the city of Eltekeh. Eltekeh appeared in Sennacherib's Annals as the site of a battle between the Assyrians and Egyptians in 701 BCE, and in the Bible as a Levitical city within the first Dan Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gália
Gália is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 6,482 (2020 est.) in an area of 356 km². The elevation is 561 m. The municipality contains 80% of the Caetetus Ecological Station The Caetetus Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica dos Caetetus) is a state-level ecological station (ESEC) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects one of the last remnants of the semi-deciduous forest that once covered the west of ..., created in 1976. References Municipalities in São Paulo (state) {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galia Angelova
Galia Angelova (born 10 November 1972) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. Biography Angelova, who comes from Haskovo, was a member of the Bulgaria Federation Cup team which competed in the 1988 and 1990 competitions, featuring in a total of eight ties. Her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance came in the doubles at the 1989 Vitosha New Otani Open The 1989 Vitosha New Otani Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Sofia, Bulgaria that was part of the Category 1 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 31 July until 6 August 1989. Second-seeded I ... in Sofia. She won three ITF singles titles and reached a best ranking of 378 in the world. As a doubles player, she was ranked as high as 231 and won five ITF doubles titles. She is now a tennis coach and works at Dema Sport in Sofia. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner–up) Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner–ups) References External links * * * {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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