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From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas are collectively known as Russian America ( Russian: Русская Америка, romanized : Russkaya Amerika; 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but ...
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023). On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
In 1867, the Alaska Purchase transferred control of Alaska to the United States and the commercial interests of the Russian American Company were sold to Hutchinson, Kohl & Company of San Francisco, who then merged with several other groups to form the Alaska Commercial Company. The Russian population in America never surpassed 1,000—the peak ...
The history of Alaska dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (around 14,000 BC ), when foraging groups crossed the Bering land bridge into what is now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from the Aleut word Alaxsxaq (also spelled ...
This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.
This is a list of notable European companies. For further information on the types of business entities in this union and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in the European Union". Volkswagen is the largest company in European Union and the largest car manufacturer in the world by revenue. Volkswagen AG headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The NATPE banned Russian companies from its international television trade fair in Hungary. 1 March 2022 European Film Academy: Film organization Germany: The EFA boycotted all Russian films. 1 March 2022 BBC Studios (British Broadcasting Corporation) Television production United Kingdom
8. Poland. 1. 8. Sweden. 1. Below are the 100 largest companies by revenue in 2023 (mostly for fiscal year 2022), according to the Fortune 500 list. [3] Note that this list mostly includes public companies. Many private companies like Lidl (Schwarz Gruppe) or Aldi, to give a just two examples, are hence missing.