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Birka (other)
Birka was a Viking-age trading center in Sweden. Birka may also refer to: Places *Virk, Jalandhar, Punjab, India, a village sometimes known as Birka * Wagh El Birket, a former red-light district in Cairo Ships *Birka Line, an Ålandian shipping company * MS ''Birka Stockholm'', a cruise ship owned by Birka Line *''Birka Princess'', a cruise ship built for Birka Line * MS ''Birka Queen'', the original name of the cruise ship MS ''Norwegian Majesty'' * SS ''Main'' (1926), a German cargo ship renamed ''Birka'' in 1955 *A German hospital ship sunk during World War II by the submarine HMS ''Triden'' (N52) Other * A font family designed by Franko Luin See also *Burka (other) *Burk (other) *Berk (other) Berk may refer to: * Berk (name), a surname, given name, or any of several people with that name * Berk, Bolu, Turkey, a village * Berk Trade and Business School, New York City * Berk, a fictional island in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' series ... * Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birka
Birka (''Birca'' in medieval sources), on the island of Björkö, Ekerö, Björkö (lit. "Birch Island") in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of the European continent and the Orient. Björkö is located in Mälaren, Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö. Birka was founded around AD 750 and it flourished for more than 200 years. It was abandoned c. AD 975, around the same time Sigtuna was founded as a Christianity, Christian town some 35 km to the northeast. It has been estimated that the population in Viking Age Birka was between 500 and 1000 people. The archaeological sites of Birka and Hovgården, on the neighbouring island of Adelsö, make up an archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking Scandinavia and their Viking expansion, influence on the subsequent history of Europe. Generally regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virk, Jalandhar
Virk is a village near Phagwara, but falls within Tehsil Phillaur Phillaur is a city and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Punjab, India, Punjab. Overview Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana Main ..., Jalandhar district, in Punjab, India. The village was occupied by residents with surname Virk of Rajput - Jat community, after migration of 1947. The village has continued to tell the tale of accommodating a virk child, that lost both parents, and sheltered in the village to escape exploitation from Dhillon - Marasi / Marasi. A dargah of famous Sufi saint of 18th century Baba Deviye Shah and Wajire Shah located here. Parmar from Rajput community and Manhas from Rajput community are known as the founders of the village called Virk / Birka / Virka. Demographics According to the 2001 Census, Virk has a population of 5,195. Neighbouring villages include Chachoki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagh El Birket
Wagh El Birket ( ar, وجه البركة ) was, through the first half of the 20th century, the entertainment district (or red-light district) of Cairo, Egypt. The lake was where Azbakeya is now. Events In the 19th century as Cairo expanded, Wagh El Birket developed as a contact zone between the wealthy area round the Azbakeya lake and expanding central Cairo. The street ran from the Hotel Bristol to Clot Bey Square. In 1911 the street was described as "the most unblushing in Cairo". On one side was an arcade with cafes underneath. On the other were houses with balconies on the upper floors. "Ladies of the night" dressed in flimsy gowns would display themselves on the balconies. Towards the Clot Bey end was the Fishmarket, a particularly squalid area. WWI In World War I there were violent incidents in the Wagh El Birket, including the major incident known as the Battle of the Wazzir. WWII During the Second World War, the street was known as "the Berka" by troops. The military se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birka Line
Birka Cruises (formerly Birka Line) was an Ålandian shipping company that operated a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During the 1970s the company was often marketed as Ålandslinjen. Since May 2007 Birka Line has been a daughter company of Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö.YLE News - Birka Line becomes a daughter company of Eckerö retrieved 30 May 2007 In July 2020 Eckerö Line announced that it was shutting down its Birka Cruises subsidiary after 49 years of operation. History Birka Line was founded in 1971, they bought MS ''Prinsessen'' from |
MS Birka Stockholm
MS ''Birka Stockholm'' is a cruise ship Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as "s ... built for Birka Line, now owned by Rederi Ab Eckerö and operated under their Birka Cruises brand. She was built in 2004 by Aker Finnyards at Rauma, Finland, and sailed as ''Birka Paradise'' until 2013. Concept and construction ''Birka Paradise'' was ordered by Birka Line from STX Finland, Aker Finnyards at Rauma, Finland, on 20 November 2002. She was the first new ship ordered by Birka Line since MS Majesty, ''Birka Queen'', ordered in the late 1980s, but never delivered due to bankruptcy of the Wärtsilä Marine shipyard. The interior and exterior of ''Birka Paradise'' were jointly designed by Birka Line, Aker Finnyards and Deltamarin. Unlike most of Birka's previous vessels, the ship was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birka Princess
MS ''Sea Diamond'' was a cruise ship operated by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. She was built in 1984 by Valmet, Finland for Birka Line as ''Birka Princess''. The ship ran aground near the Greek island of Santorini 5 April 2007, and sank the next day leaving two passengers missing and presumed dead. History Originally named ''Birka Princess'', the ship was built by the Finnish state-owned company Valmet at their Vuosaari shipyard in HelsinkiVessel SEA DIAMOND - DNV Exchange at a cost of 350 million ( |
MS Birka Queen
MS ''Crown Iris'' is a cruise ship owned by Mano Maritime. She was originally ordered by Birka Line as MS ''Birka Queen'' from the Wärtsilä Marine Turku Shipyard in Finland, but completed by Kvaerner Masa-Yards as MS ''Royal Majesty'' for Majesty Cruise Line. In 1997 she was sold to Norwegian Cruise Line as the MS ''Norwegian Majesty'' and lengthened by at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany. She was sold to Louis Cruises as the MS ''Louis Majesty'' from 2008 to 2012 when she was chartered to Thomson Cruises as the MS ''Thomson Majesty'' before being returned to Louis Cruises/Celestyal Cruises, as the ''Majesty''. In 2018 the ship sold to Mano Maritime. Concept and construction ''Birka Queen'' was ordered by Birka Line for short cruises out of Stockholm as a running mate to . The ship was ordered from Wärtsilä Marine, but the shipyard went bankrupt in 1989. Operations were soon reorganized under the name of Masa-Yards, but the price of the ship was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Main
Several steamships have borne the name ''Main'': * was a 3,087-ton single-screw ocean liner built in 1868 by Caird & Co., Greenock. New compound engines fitted in 1878. Owned 1868–1891 by the Norddeutscher Lloyd and 1891–1892 by the Anglo-American Steamship Co. On 23 March 1892, while on voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool with cattle and general cargo, destroyed by a fire at Prim Bay, Fayal, in the Azores and left to disintegrate. * was a 715-ton cargo ship launched on 28 April 1904, by Mackie & Thomson in Govan, Scotland. Sold and renamed ''Marden'' in 1926, sunk in collision with ''The Sultan'' off Cromer Knoll on 27 May 1929. * was a 2,662-ton cargo ship launched as ''Regina'' on 13 December 1906, by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg, Germany. Sold and renamed ''Maria'' in 1921, sold again in 1924 and renamed ''Main''. Finally resold in 1927 and renamed ''Milos''. Struck a mine and sank off Kristiansand, Norway on 20 October 1944. * was a 964-ton cargo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Trident (N52)
HMS ''Trident'' was a British T class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 12 January 1937 and was commissioned on 1 October 1939. HMS ''Trident'' was part of the first group of T class submarines. Career ''Trident'' operated in most of the naval theatres of the Second World War, in home waters in the North Sea and off the Scandinavian coast, in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific far east. Home waters In May 1940, ''Trident'' in Kors fjord Norway, destroyed a German supply ship with a torpedo, having forced it aground in an initial gun action. She spent the period from 1941 to mid 1943 in the North Sea, where she sank the German merchants ''Edmund Hugo Stinnes 4'', ''Ostpreußen'', ''Donau II'', ''Hödur'' and ''Bahia Laura'', the German tanker ''Stedingen'' and the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 1213 / ''Rau IV''. She also attacked and damaged the German merchants ''Cläre Hugo Stinnes'' and ''Levante'', and unsuccessfully attacked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franko Luin
Franko Luin (6 April 1941 in Trieste, Italy – 15 September 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden) was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. A graphic designer at the telecom company Ericsson (1967–1989), He started his own design shop Omnibus Typografi in 1989. Franko Luin had a keen interest in languages, particularly the international auxiliary language Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ..., and was for many years president of the Swedish Esperanto association SEF. He wrote poems, translated songs into Esperanto and organized a well renowned homepage, the ''Kiosk'', which had an enormous link list of online newspapers. In his later years, he collected and digitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burka (other)
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Burka or burqa may refer to : * Burka (surname) Garments * Burqa, a full body cloak worn by some Muslim women * Burka (Caucasus) a traditional man's coat made from felt or karakul * Kobeniak, Ukrainian traditional garment Places * Burqa, Ramallah, a village on the West Bank * Burqa, Nablus, a village on the West Bank * Burka District, in Baghlan province, Afghanistan * Barqa, Gaza, Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948 See also * Birka (other) * Burca (other) * Barca (other) Barca or Barce may refer to: Places * Barca (ancient city) or Barce, a Greek city in North Africa * La Barca (municipality), Jalisco, Mexico *Barqa, Gaza *Barca (parish), a parish of Portugal *Bârca, a commune in Dolj County, Romania *Koši ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burk (other)
Burk may refer to: Places * Burk, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany * Burk, a city district of Bautzen_(district), Saxony, Germany * Burk, a neighborhood of Forchheim (Oberfranken) Forchheim () is a town in Upper Franconia (german: Oberfranken) in northern Bavaria, and also the seat of the administrative district of Forchheim. Forchheim is a former royal city, and is sometimes called the Gateway to the Franconian Switzer ..., Bavaria, Germany People * Burk (name), given name and surname Other uses * Burk House (other) See also *Burking, a particular form of smothering * Burks (other) * Burke (other) * Burck * Berk (other) * de Burgh, a surname * Birk (other) * Bourke (other) * Berg (other) * Burgos, a city of northern Spain * Burgh, an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
