Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...

That first outing resulted in the dreaded ‘nul points’ and Lithuania would sit the next four Contests out, returning in 1999 when songstress Aistė fared slightly better with her Samogitian-dialect ...

The Nordic countries are ahead of us The Nordic countries — Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland — and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and ... including three dialects of Sami (spoken ...

Mandarin is the official and most widely spoken language in China, though there are a number of other Chinese dialects that are ... such as Ukraine, Latvia and Kazakhstan. Russia's economy ...

Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, Estonia ranks number two in adult literacy (after Latvia) with its rate of 99.8 percent ... The tradition, known as “suidsusannakombõ” in the local ...

European countries should “absolutely” be introducing conscription to combat the threat of Russian aggression, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said Sunday, as Europe grows increasingly ...

This typically does not affect the most spoken dialects of these languages, which are often used as the standard dialect, but often affect less common language dialects. Most efforts to create ...

The Latvian president has urged European countries to "absolutely" introduce conscription, as he conceded the continent was "quite weak" militarily. Edgars Rinkevics told Sky's Sunday Morning ...

A month after Latvia hosted a major multinational NATO operation on the alliance's eastern flank, the country's former prime minister, Krisjanis Karins, spoke to Morning Edition about new signals ...