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Kapıkule Railway Station
Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side is Kapitan Andreevo. Together, they form the busiest land border checkpoint, border crossing point in Europe. Kapıkule, situated on the State road D100 (Turkey), State road D100 (D.100) and European route E80, is also an important gateway for cargo transport to the countries east of Turkey. The Asian Highway Network route Asian Highway 1, AH1 terminates at the border. Other land border checkpoints in western Turkey are the neighboring Hamzabeyli (on the State road D535 (Turkey), D.535) and Dereköy, Kırklareli, Dereköy (on the State road D555 (Turkey), D.555) to Bulgaria and İpsala (on the State road D110 (Turkey), D.110, European route E84, E84) to Greece. The Kapıkule railway station, built in 1971, is located to the north of the town and handles more traffic than any other railway border crossing in Turkey. In the dawn of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Highway Network
The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to improve their connectivity via highway systems. It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects. Agreements have been signed by 32 countries to allow the highway to cross the continent and also reach to Europe. Some of the countries taking part in the highway project are India ( Act East policy), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Nepal and Bangladesh. Most of the funding comes from the larger, more advanced Asian nations such as China, South Korea and Singapore as well as international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Republic Of Bulgaria
The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB; , NRB; ) was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; ) together with its coalition partner, the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union. Bulgaria was closely allied and one of the most loyal satellite states of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, sometimes being called the 16th Soviet Republic rather than an independent country. Bulgaria was also part of Comecon as well as a member of the Warsaw Pact. The Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II deposed the Tsardom of Bulgaria administration in the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 which ended the country's alliance with the Axis powers and led to the People's Republic in 1946. The BCP modeled its policies after those of the Soviet Union, transforming the country over the course of a decade from an agrarian peasant society into an industrialized socialist society. In the mid-1950s and aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turks In Bulgaria
Bulgarian Turks (; ) are ethnic Turkish people from Bulgaria. According to the 2021 census, there were 508,375 Bulgarians of Turkish descent, roughly 8.4% of the population, making them the country's largest ethnic minority. Bulgarian Turks also comprise the largest single population of Turks in the Balkans. They primarily live in the southern province of Kardzhali Province, Kardzhali and the northeastern provinces of Shumen Province, Shumen, Silistra Province, Silistra, Razgrad Province, Razgrad and Targovishte Province, Targovishte. There is also a diaspora outside Bulgaria in countries such as Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Romania, the most significant of which are the Bulgarian Turks in Turkey. Bulgarian Turks are the descendants of Turkish people, Turkish settlers who entered the region after the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, as well as Bulgarians, Bulgarian converts to Islam who became T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutions Of 1989
The revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Communist state, Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. This revolutionary wave is sometimes referred to as the Autumn of Nations, a play on the term Spring of Nations that is sometimes used to describe the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. The revolutions of 1989 were a key factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Union—one of the two global superpowers—and in the abandonment of communist regimes in many parts of the world, some of which were violently overthrown. These events drastically altered the world's Balance of power (international relations), balance of power, marking the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the post-Cold War era. The earliest recorded protests which led to the revolutions began in Polish People's Republic, Poland on 14 August 1980, the massive gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapıkule Railway Station
Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side is Kapitan Andreevo. Together, they form the busiest land border checkpoint, border crossing point in Europe. Kapıkule, situated on the State road D100 (Turkey), State road D100 (D.100) and European route E80, is also an important gateway for cargo transport to the countries east of Turkey. The Asian Highway Network route Asian Highway 1, AH1 terminates at the border. Other land border checkpoints in western Turkey are the neighboring Hamzabeyli (on the State road D535 (Turkey), D.535) and Dereköy, Kırklareli, Dereköy (on the State road D555 (Turkey), D.555) to Bulgaria and İpsala (on the State road D110 (Turkey), D.110, European route E84, E84) to Greece. The Kapıkule railway station, built in 1971, is located to the north of the town and handles more traffic than any other railway border crossing in Turkey. In the dawn of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Route E84
European route E 84 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in İpsala border gate (to/from Greece) in Turkey and run through Keşan, Malkara, Tekirdağ and Marmaraereğlisi and ends in Silivri, Turkey. The road follows: Keşan - Tekirdağ - Silivri. It is a part of the D-110. Route *: Keşan () - Tekirdağ - Silivri Silivri, formerly Selymbria (Greek language, Greek: Σηλυμβρία), is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 217,163 (2022). It lies along the Sea of Marmara, outsi ... () References External links UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007) 84 E084 {{Turkey-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Road D110 (Turkey)
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İpsala
İpsala (; ) is a town in Edirne Province in northwestern Turkey. It is the seat of İpsala District.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 8,546 (2022). It is the location of one of the main border checkpoints between Greece and Turkey. The Greek town opposite İpsala is Kipoi, Evros, Kipoi. The state road State road D.110 (Turkey), D.110 (European route E90) connects the border checkpoint İpsala with Tekirdağ at the coast of Marmara Sea. The town consists of 6 quarters: Kapucu, Saraçilyas, Bayrambey, Köprü, Bozkurt and Fatih, İpsala, Fatih. History In Roman Empire, Roman and Byzantine Empire, Byzantine times, this was the town of Cypsela (Thrace), Cypsela, which belonged to the Roman province of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Road D555 (Turkey)
D.555 is a north-to-south state road in the European part of Turkey. It starts at Dereköy Checkpoint at the Bulgaria-Turkey border crossing and ends in Tekirdağ at the D.110 junction. It is part of the European route E87 between its starting point and the D.100 junction in Babaeski. Itinerary {, class="wikitable" !rowspan="2" , Province !rowspan="2" , Location !colspan="3" , Distance from (km) , - !previous location !Dereköy CP !Tekirdağ , - , rowspan="5" style="text-align:left;" , Kırklareli , Dereköy Checkpoint , , 0 , , 0 , , 156 , - , Dereköy , , 12 , , 12 , , 144 , - , Pınarhisar , , 29 , , 41 , , 115 , - , Karacaoğlan , , 24 , , 65 , , 91 , - , Babaeski , , 10 , , 75 , , 81 , - , rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;" , Tekirdağ , Hayrabolu , , 32 , , 107 , , 49 , - , Banarlı , , 30 , , 137 , , 19 , - , Tekirdağ , , 19 , , 156 , , 0 Intersections * in Pınarhisar * in Babaeski * in Tekirdağ References External links {{State roads in Turkey 555 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dereköy, Kırklareli
Dereköy () is a village of Kırklareli District of Kırklareli Province, Marmara Region, western Turkey. Its population is 432 (2022). It is one of the three land border crossing points between Bulgaria and Turkey. Geography The village is located in Strandzha mountains, 20 km north of the centre of Kırklareli, near the border with Bulgaria. History In the 19th century, Dereköy was a Bulgarian village in the Kaza of Kırklareli, which was in turn in the Vilayet of Edirne. In 1873, the village consisted of 360 households with 1684 Bulgarians. After the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877–1878, first families from Dereköy migrated to Razgrad and Tutrakan to the newly sovereign Bulgaria. According to statistics provided by Ljubomir Miletitsch, Dereköy had about 150 households and 634 inhabitants in 1900, all of whom were Christian Bulgarians. After the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, 16 volunteers from Dereköy fought in the Macedonia-Edirne-volunteer corps of the Bulgarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
