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Inaugurated. 1995 [1] Most recent. 2022 [2] Website. www.siab.ro. The Bucharest International Auto Show ( Romanian: Salonul Internațional de Automobile București, or just SIAB) is an auto show organized every two years in Romania. The SIAB is conducted over a ten-day period. [3]
Tourism is a major component of the Maltese economy, constituting about 40 per cent of Malta's GDP in 2003/04. 1,183,012 tourists visited Malta in 2009. Although this is an 8 per cent drop from 2008, [16] the number of tourists is expected to reach 1,300,000 by the end of 2010 (figures are not yet available). [17]
Sites in Malta were first inscribed on the list at the 4th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Paris, France, in 1980. At that session, all three current sites were added to the list: the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, City of Valletta, and Ġgantija Temples. [3] [4] In 1992, the temples of Ħaġar Qim, Mnajdra, Ta' Ħaġrat, Skorba, and ...
Bucharest's public transport system is the largest in Romania and one of the largest in Europe. It is made up of the Bucharest Metro, run by Metrorex, as well as a surface transport system run by STB (Societatea de Transport București, previously known as the RATB), which consists of buses, trams, trolleybuses, and light rail.
Malta (/ ˈ m ɒ l t ə / ⓘ MOL-tə, / ˈ m ɔː l t ə / MAWL-tə, Maltese: [ˈmɐːltɐ]), officially the Republic of Malta, [14] is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, [15] and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya.
Valletta. / 35.89833°N 14.51250°E / 35.89833; 14.51250. Valletta ( / vəˈlɛtə /, Maltese: il-Belt Valletta, Maltese pronunciation: [vɐlˈlɛt.tɐ]) is the capital city of Malta and one of its 68 council areas. Located between the Grand Harbour to the east and Marsamxett Harbour to the west, its population as of 2021 was 5,157. [ 3]
Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam takes possession of the island of Malta, 26 October 1530 by René Théodore Berthon. In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Empire started spreading over the region, reaching South East Europe. The Spanish king Charles V feared that if Rome fell to the Turks, it would be the end of Christian Europe.
The Megalithic Temples of Malta ( Maltese: It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta' Malta) are several prehistoric temples, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, [ 1] built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. [ 2] They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth ...