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Provençal ( or "" ) is a variety ___MASK77___ Occitan spoken by a minority ___MASK77___ people in southern ___MASK9___ , mostly in ___MASK88___ . In the English - speaking world , the term " Provençal " has historically also been used to refer to all ___MASK77___ Occitan , but is now mainly understood to refer to the variety spoken in ___MASK88___ . A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a " town " varies considerably in different parts ___MASK77___ the world . Trpejca ( Macedonian :  ) is a village along the shore ___MASK77___ the Lake ___MASK80___ in the Republic ___MASK77___ Macedonia . Traditionally a fishing village , it has recently become an upscale vacation spot . Trpejca is home to around 303 inhabitants and has just one school , two shops , and a church recently built on the exact location ___MASK77___ an older one . It is known as the Macedonian Saint - Tropez among locals . ___MASK80___ is a city in the Republic of Macedonia and the seat of ___MASK65___ . It is the largest city on Lake ___MASK80___ and the eighth - largest city in the country , with over 42 , 000 inhabitants as of 2002 . ___MASK80___ is notable for once having had 365 churches , one for each day of the year , and has been referred to as a " Jerusalem ( of the Balkans )". The city is rich in picturesque houses and monuments , and tourism is predominant . It is located southwest of Skopje , west of Resen and Bitola . In 1979 and in 1980 respectively , ___MASK80___ and Lake ___MASK80___ were accepted as Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites by UNESCO . ___MASK80___ is one of only 28 sites that are part of UNESCO ' s World Heritage that are Cultural as well as Natural sites . The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co - operation . A replacement for the ineffective League ___MASK77___ Nations , the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; there are now 193 . The headquarters ___MASK77___ the United Nations is in ___MASK79___ , ___MASK51___ City , and experiences extraterritoriality . Further main offices are situated in Geneva , Nairobi , and ___MASK96___ . The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states . Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security , promoting human rights , fostering social and economic development , protecting the environment , and providing humanitarian aid in cases ___MASK77___ famine , natural disaster , and armed conflict . In general , a ___MASK5___ or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities . The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U . S . Department of Health and Human Services defines the word " rural " as encompassing "... all population , housing , and territory not included within an urban area . Whatever is not urban is considered rural ." ___MASK56___ (; ), officially the Republic of ___MASK56___ , is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe . It has a population of 3 . 03 million as of 2016 . Tirana is the nation ' s capital and largest city , followed by ___MASK12___ and Vlorë . ___MASK56___ is located in the south - western part of the Balkan peninsula , bordered by Montenegro to the northwest , Kosovo to the northeast , the Republic of Macedonia to the east , and Greece to the south and southeast . The country has a coastline on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea , the Adriatic Sea to the west and the Ionian Sea to the southwest where the Albanian Riviera begins . ___MASK56___ is less than from Italy , across the Strait of Otranto which connects the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea . The Council ___MASK77___ ___MASK15___ ( CoE ) is an international organisation focused on promoting human rights , democracy and the rule ___MASK77___ law in ___MASK15___ . Founded in 1949 , it has 47 member states , covers approximately 820 million people and operates with an annual budget ___MASK77___ approximately half a billion euros . Yugoslavia (/  , ) was a country in Southeast ___MASK15___ during ___MASK63___ of the 20th century . It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes , Croats and Serbs ( itself formed from territories of the former Austro - Hungarian Empire ) with the formerly independent Kingdom of ___MASK42___ . The Serbian royal House of Karaorevi became the Yugoslav royal dynasty . Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris . The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union , following centuries in which the territories had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria - Hungary . The ___MASK35___ Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO '), also called the ___MASK35___ Atlantic ___MASK2___ , is an intergovernmental military ___MASK2___ based on the ___MASK35___ Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 . The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party . Three NATO members are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear - weapon states : the United States , France and the United Kingdom . NATO ' s headquarters are located in Haren , Brussels , Belgium , where the Supreme Allied Commander also resides . Belgium is one of the 28 member states across ___MASK35___ America and Europe , the newest of which , Albania and ___MASK50___ , joined in April 2009 . An additional 22 countries participate in NATO ' s Partnership for Peace program , with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programmes . The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70 % of the global total . Members ' defence spending is supposed to amount to 2 % of GDP . Southeast ___MASK15___ or Southeastern ___MASK15___ is a geographical region of ___MASK15___ , consisting primarily of the Balkan peninsula . Sovereign states that are , at least partially , included in the region are , in alphabetical order , ___MASK56___ , ___MASK58___ , Bulgaria , ___MASK50___ , Greece , Kosovo , Macedonia , Moldova , Montenegro , Romania , Serbia , Slovenia and Turkey . ___MASK39___ (' ), officially the Hellenic Republic ( Greek : ' ), historically also known as Hellas ("" ), is a country in southeastern ___MASK15___ . ___MASK39___ ' s population is approximately 10 . 955 million as of 2015 . ___MASK18___ is the nation ' s capital and largest city , followed by Thessaloniki . ___MASK91___ ( tr . " Makedonija "), officially the Republic ___MASK77___ ___MASK91___ ( Macedonian : , tr . " Republika Makedonija "), is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast ___MASK15___ . It is one ___MASK77___ the successor states ___MASK77___ the former Yugoslavia , from which it declared independence in 1991 . It became a member ___MASK77___ the United Nations in 1993 , but , as a result ___MASK77___ an ongoing dispute with Greece over the use ___MASK77___ the name " ___MASK91___ ", was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic ___MASK77___ ___MASK91___ ( sometimes unofficially abbreviated as FYROM and FYR ___MASK91___ ), a term that is also used by international organizations such as the ___MASK23___ , the Council ___MASK77___ ___MASK15___ and NATO . Pogradec is a city and municipality in ___MASK3___ ___MASK56___ , situated on the shores of one of Europe ' s deepest and oldest ___MASK21___ , the Ohrid lake . It is located in the County of Korçë . ___MASK33___ (; Niçard , classical norm , or "", nonstandard , ) is the fifth ___MASK63___ populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes - Maritimes " département ". The urban area of ___MASK33___ extends beyond the administrative city limits , with a population of about 1 million on an area of . Located in the ___MASK45___ , on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea , at the foot of the Alps , ___MASK33___ is the second - largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second - largest city in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur region after Marseille . ___MASK33___ is about 13 kilometres ( 8 miles ) from the principality of ___MASK86___ , and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well . Lake ___MASK80___ (, , , , " Liqeni i Pogradecit "), straddles the mountainous border between southwestern Macedonia and eastern Albania . It is one of Europe ' s deepest and oldest ___MASK21___ , preserving a unique aquatic ecosystem that is of worldwide importance , with more than 200 endemic species . The importance of the lake was further emphasized when it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 and when , in 2010 , NASA decided to name one of Titan ' s ___MASK21___ after Lake ___MASK80___ . In 2014 , the ___MASK80___ - Prespa Transboundary Reserve between Albania and Macedonia was added to UNESCO ' s World Network of Biosphere Reserves . The towns situated at the lakeside are Pogradec in Albania , along with ___MASK80___ and Struga in Macedonia . The lake is otherwise densely surrounded by settlements in the form of villages and resorts in both basin countries . A dispersed settlement , also known as a scattered settlement , is one ___MASK77___ the main types ___MASK77___ settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in ___MASK7___ and other parts ___MASK77___ the world . Typically , there are a number ___MASK77___ separate farmsteads scattered throughout the area . A dispersed settlement contrasts with a nucleated village . A village is a clustered human settlement or community , larger than a ___MASK61___ but smaller than a town , with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand . Though often located in rural areas , the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods . Villages are normally permanent , with fixed dwellings ; however , transient villages can occur . Further , the dwellings ___MASK77___ a village are fairly close to one another , not scattered broadly over the landscape , as a dispersed settlement . ___MASK88___ - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur or PACA is one of the 18 administrative regions of France . Its capital is Marseille . Struga is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the ___MASK30___ - ___MASK37___ of the Republic of Macedonia , lying on the shore of Lake ___MASK80___ . The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality . A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations , specifically by UNESCO . Sites are selected on the basis ___MASK77___ having cultural , historical , scientific or some other form ___MASK77___ significance , and they are legally protected by international treaties . UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the collective interests ___MASK77___ humanity . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) is an independent agency ___MASK77___ the executive branch ___MASK77___ the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research . In geography , statistics and archaeology , a settlement , locality or populated place is a community in which people live . A settlement can range in size from a small number ___MASK77___ dwellings grouped together to the largest ___MASK77___ cities with surrounding urbanized areas . Settlements may include hamlets , villages , towns and cities . A settlement may have known historical properties such as the ___MASK67___ or era in which it was first settled , or first settled by a particular people . ___MASK88___ ( Provençal : " Provença " in classical norm or " Prouvènço " in Mistralian norm ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France , which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east , and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south . It largely corresponds with the modern administrative " région " of ___MASK88___ - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur , and includes the " départements " of Var , Bouches - du - Rhône , Alpes - de - Haute - ___MASK88___ and parts of Alpes - Maritimes and Vaucluse . The largest city of the region is Marseille . Saint - Tropez ("" in Provençal dialect ) is a town , ___MASK34___ of Nice , in the Var department of the ___MASK88___ - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur region of southeastern France . It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint - Tropez . ___MASK15___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK15___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the ___MASK13___ and southeast , ___MASK15___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK15___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK15___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . The United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) is a specialized agency ___MASK77___ the United Nations ( UN ) based in Paris . Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational , scientific , and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice , the rule ___MASK77___ law , and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter . It is the heir ___MASK77___ the League ___MASK77___ Nations ' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation . The ___MASK23___ ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency .