Middle Europe
| 2009 Balkans | Istanbul
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| Belgrade Bucharest Sofia |
Belgrade
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| Tito in the snow |
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| "House of Flowers" Tito's winter garden and then grave. |
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| Tito's grave |
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| Tito Museum: Relay batons From relay runs on Tito's birthdays. |
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| Strange museum mosaic... Partisans and Peasants? |
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| Tesla Museum |
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| Tesla's Ashes |
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| Sveti Marko church (1940) |
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| "Russian Church" |
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| Belgrade Cathedral (20th c.) |
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| Kalmegadan Fortress: Stamboul Gate |
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| Kalmegadan Fortress |
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| Military Museum: Part of F117 Stealth fighter Shot down on March 1989 |
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| Military Museum: 1989 |
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| NATO bomb casing "Under warranty until 2004" |
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| Kalmegadan: to New Belgrade |
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| Kalmegadan: The Mighty Danube |
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| Kalmegadan Walls |
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| Kalmegadan Gate On Northern (Danube) side. |
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| Kalmegadan Tower |
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| Sveta Sava cathedral (new) "The largest Orthodox church in the world." |
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| Seta Sava dome |
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| Sveta Sava interior |
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| Giant Apartment Blocks |
Bucharest
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| Ersatz Starbucks |
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| New St George Church (1699) |
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| Princely Court Church (rebuilt 1934) |
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| Vlad Tepes |
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| Patriarchal Cathedral |
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| Patriarchal Cathedral Interior |
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| Patriarchal Palace (?) |
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| Ceaucescu's gigantic "Palace of Parliament" |
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| D�mbovita River |
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| National History Museum: 1989 |
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| Peasant Museum: Basement Stalin |
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| Peasant Museum: Basement |
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| Commemoration of 1989? A photographer is snapping viewers from through the bullet hole. |
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| University Square Monument Ten Stone Crosses |
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| Rebirth Memorial "The Potato of the Revolution" |
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| "Shattered man" monument |
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| Central Committee Building |
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| Ceaucescu's Last Balcony |
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| Cretelescu Church (1722) |
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| Cretelescu Church (1722) |
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| Piata Romana |
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| She-Wolf in Bucharest "SPQR" |
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| South Romania |
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| South Romania |
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| Mighty Danube (Romania-Bulgaria) |
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| North Bulgaria |
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| North Bulgaria |
Sofia
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| Alexander II (the Tsar Liberator) Who liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. |
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| Enormous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral |
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| Alexander Nevsky entrance |
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| Sveta Sophia Church Much rebuilt, some 4th c. sub-floor mosaics |
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| St Nikolai (1913) |
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| St Petka Samajuska church (11th c. ++) |
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| Sofia Synagogue |
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| Sofia Synagogue |
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| Church of St George (4th c., with many rebuilds) |
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| Church of St George |
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| National History Museum 4th c. b.c. gold hoard |
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| Soviet Helicopter, History Museum |
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| Hills behind History Museum |
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| Classsic Soviet-era apartment block |
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| Central Bulgaria |
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| Central Bulgaria |
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Middle Europe
| Istanbul
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