In the year 63 BC Romans occcupied Jerusalem & placed Large no of Roman troops to maintain peace in that region.
Roman troops during there stay in Jerusalem got fond of Jewish food and the most popular among all Jewish delicacy was Matzoth.It was flat bread slowly roasted upon wood fire.
Roman troops brought this dish back to italy and strated making them in an circular shape with many kind of toppings.They called it Pinsa mean’s flattened bread in Latin Language.After few years people started calling it as Pizza in Italian language which was quite similar to the Latin.
The HOTDOG is originally a German sausage dish made of beef or pork. In Germany it’s popularly called frankfurters as the dish finds its origin in the Frankfurt region of Germany.
In late 1800 many Germans immigrated to United States and with them they brought many German dish one of them was Frankfurter which was basically a spherical long pork or beef sausages. Besides food many pets that were not found in United States also came with German settlers. Most common among them was a dog breed called Daschsand.It became a very popular breed in USA.
Dachshund breed
Few years laters many Germans started selling this food item in the streets of major American cities. They served it with an addition that was the bread as bread was staple food in United States and the sausages were fried hot in front of customers.
Soon it became very popular American street food mainly the beef and pork variants. Due to its long circular shape and German origin people started linking it to Dachshand dog breed and as it was sold hot it came to be known popularly as Hot Dog
In Medival era the grographical region that represents the city was once a swampy land near a river bank of Northern holland.The whole region was inhabited by sea fearing people as the land invert level was lower than the sea.
In 11th century a powerful Dutch family Van Amstel family took over the area and started developing the region as it was a natural harbor. First the family named the river as AmstelRiver.
During the process large land reclamation work started and for that a Dam was built by the Amstel family.Immediatly human settlement started near by Dam area mainly focusing on production and trading not farming. In that period it was a quiet different as farming was a major occupation.As the city grew it was recognized through out Netherland as the region near Amstel-Damand was later called Amsterdam.
Few Facts on Amsterdam
1)It has a beautiful canal network within the city and Amsterdam is famously called the Venice of north.
2) Established in 1602 by Dutch East IndiaCompany the Amsterdam StockExchange is the world’s first Official Stock Exchange for dealing in printed stock & Securities.
The city of Rome is considered to be one of the most beautiful and religious city in the world having a history that stretches from B.C to A.D.
It was the capital and power center of world most powerful and longest running empire that is the RomanEmpire.
There are many stories related to its name.The most prominent story among them is linked with ancient king Romulus.
It is believed that in ancient times in that particular region a queen gave birth to twin boys.who were called Romulus and Remus. When they grew up, A power struggle ensued between the brothers for control of empire.
Finally Romulus killed Remus and imerged victorious. To commomorate his victory he name the region as Rome.
When one hears the name iceland he might think that Ice land is a country which always remains frozen through out the year,but that’s not the case. It’s avg temperature varries between 25 degree centigrade in summer to -20 degree centigrade in winter’s that too in it’s northern regions.
Then why it’s called Iceland?
There’s a catch that is not yet properly established. As per locals the name ice land was given in resemblance to the name Greenland to divert pirates to Greenland. But in actuall ice land have a substantial pasture land where as green land remain frozen throughout the year.
And as per historians ice land was first inhabited by Norwegian explorer Arnarson and he first saw the fjord of vatnsfjorour which was filled with Ice so he called the whole area as ice land.
Facts about ice land.
1)When counted in per capity basis ice land is the largest electric city producer in the world.
2)Due to abundance hydro and geothermal energy Ice land is the only country in the world where 95% of the total energy requirement is ful-filled from renewable energy sources.
3)It’s the only country in the world where there is no mosquitoes and no snakes in Ice land.
4)Ice land is also one of few countries in the world which do not have a standing army.
All in all ice land is a beautiful country to visit to experience the Earth’s natural beauty like Fjords,Northern lights,Basalt beaches,Hot springs etc.
The city was a Dutch colony in 17th century under Dutch West Indiancompany.The region was developed by Dutch to boost the regional FUR trade. To achieve this a fort was constructed called the fortAmsterdam.Soon settlement developed around the port and was called New Amsterdam.it was under Dutch control from 1609 to 1664.
In the year 1664 English forces took over the region and the king of England Prince Charles II granted this region to his brother the Duke of York and Named it New York.
Today after four century new York had blossomed into populus city having very diverse population.Infact new York is the most diverse cultural city in the world.Around 800 different language’s are spoken in New York and 40 percent of it’s population is born outside USA.
It is also the economic engine of the world as it’s home to highest no billionaires with an average GMP(Gross metropolitant product) of 2.0 trillion dollars.That means if NewYork was a country it would have been the 8th richest country in the world.
Dead Sea is located at the border of three countries namely Jordan, Israel and the west bank. The water level of Dead Sea is 430 mts below normal sea level of Earth and is highly saline which makes it denser than water that is 1.3 kg/lt. Due to this high density its water is highly bouyant because of which people float easily over it.
Because of this high salinity no living organisim can survive in it.Nor aquatic nor amphibious.
So it is called Dead Sea a sea in which no living organisim inhabits.
