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"Konavle () is a municipality and a small region located southeast of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the center of the municipality is Cavtat. Demographics The total municipality population was 8,577 people in 2011, split in the following 32 settlements: * Brotnice, population 31 * Cavtat, population 2,153 * Čilipi, population 933 * Drvenik, population 52 * Duba Konavoska, population 63 * Dubravka, population 295 * Dunave, population 155 * Đurinići, population 96 * Gabrili, population 210 * Gruda, population 741 * Jasenice, population 14 * Komaji, population 275 * Kuna Konavoska, population 17 * Lovorno, population 183 * Ljuta, population 194 * Mihanići, population 96 * Mikulići, population 88 * Močići, population 447 * Molunat, population 212 * Palje Brdo, population 130 * Pločice, population 83 * Poljice, population 70 * Popovići, population 236 * Pridvorje, population 236 * Radovčići, population 228 * Stravča, population 60 * Šilješki, population 22 * Uskoplje, population 136 * Vitaljina, population 211 * Vodovađa, population 190 * Zastolje, population 150 * Zvekovica, population 570 In the 2011 census, 97.1% of the population were Croats. Historically, inhabitants of Konavle were called Canalesi.William Miller, Ottoman Empire and Its Successors, 1801–1927, 3rd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1936), p. 36. History Government of Dubrovnik in 1427 eradicate Bogomilism in Konavle and acted as in Pelješac when they expelled the Orthodox priests. Catholicism to Konavle was restored with Franciscans. Restoration of Catholicism was so rapid and efficient that at the end of the Middle Ages only Catholics lived there.Zdenka Janeković Römer, 2005, Citizens, Inhabitants, Subjects, Foreigners, Heterodox in Medieval Dubrovnik, Građani, stanovnici, podanici, stranci, inovjerci u srednjovjekovnom Dubrovniku // Raukarov zbornik : zbornik u čast Tomislava Raukara / Budak, Neven, https://www.bib.irb.hr/268941 #page= 317-346, https://www.academia.edu/7621134/Gra%C4%91ani_stanovnici_podanici_stranci_inovjerci_u_srednjovjekovnom_Dubrovniku_Citizens_Inhabitants_Subjects_Foreigners_Heterodox_in_Medieval_Dubrovnik_ #page=13-16 Even though considerably damaged during the Croatian War of Independence, Konavle maintain its status as one of the wealthiest counties in all of Croatia, consistently ranking amongst the ten richest counties. Geography Konavle is actually a narrow field located between the Sniježnica mountain and the Adriatic Sea, spanning the area from the coastal town of Cavtat to the Montenegrin border at Prevlaka. Other than Cavtat, only the southernmost village of Molunat is located on the coast, while the other 30 villages are in the hinterland. The Sniježnica peak at 1234 meters of altitude is the highest point of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and village of Kuna with its 700 m altitude is the highest village in the county. Although Gruda is the administrative center of the municipality, the largest settlement is Cavtat. Transport The airport for Dubrovnik is located near the Konavle village of Čilipi. Notable people from Konavle *Tereza Kesovija, singer *Vlaho Bukovac, painter *Frano Supilo, politician *Baltazar Bogišić, jurist & legal historian *Ivan Gundulić, poet, Konavle Count. *Anton Perich, artist, filmmaker, poet References External links * Molunat - The most southern tourist destination in Croatia Category:Populated places in Dubrovnik-Neretva County Category:Municipalities of Croatia "
"Aerial photo of Lüderitz and Haifisch Island (right) Shark Island () is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia. Its area is about . Formerly an island, it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size. It had been formerly named Star Island by British Captain Alexander during his 1795 surveying expedition. The island was site of Shark Island concentration camp. It was Namibia's first large-scale concentration camp. Close to 1,800 Nama prisoners arrived in September 1906, including Cornelius Frederiks, one of the strongest Nama military leaders. References External links * Travel guide Category:Peninsulas of Africa Category:Former islands Category:Lüderitz Category:Coasts of Namibia "
"Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, (May 26, 1934 – August 15, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, author, historian, and civil servant. Early life Richard Gwyn was born on May 26, 1934, in Bury St. Edmunds, England. He was the second son to Brigadier Philip Eustace Congreve Jermy-Gwyn, an Indian Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith Jermy-Gwyn (née Tilley), eldest daughter of Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley. His older brother died in infancy. At the age of 20, in 1954, he emigrated to Canada. Education Gwyn was educated at Stonyhurst College, a co-educational Jesuit-run Roman Catholic boarding school in Lancashire, England. He also attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Career Gwyn began his career as a radio reporter in Halifax, Nova Scotia. From 1957 to 1959, Gwyn was the parliamentary correspondent for United Press International, in Ottawa. Later in 1959 to 1960, he worked for Thomson Newspapers. From 1960 to 1962, he was the Ottawa editor for Maclean-Hunter Business Publications. From 1962 to 1968, he worked for Time Canada as a parliamentary correspondent and contributing editor. From 1968 to 1970, he was the executive assistant to the Minister of Communications, Eric Kierans. From 1970 to 1973, he was the director-general, socio-economic planning in the Department of Communications. In 1973, Gwyn joined The Toronto Star and worked as a national affairs columnist until 1985. He then became an international affairs columnist later that year until 1992. He continued to write columns on public affairs for the Star, on a freelance basis, until 2016.https://www.thestar.com/authors.gwyn_richard.html As an author, he is best known for his 1980 contemporary biography of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, The Northern Magus, and for a two-volume historical biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. The first volume of his Macdonald biography, The Man Who Made Us, won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2008. The second volume, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891, won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2012 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non- fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. From 1983 to 1987 he and Robert Fulford co-hosted the long-form interview show Realities on TVOntario. Gwyn also appeared weekly as a panellist from 1994 to 2006 on TVO's Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity and was an occasional guest on The Agenda until 2017. Personal and later life Four years after emigrating to Canada, Gwyn married Sandra Gwyn in 1958. Their marriage lasted till her death on May 26, 2000, due to breast cancer. Gwyn subsequently remarried to Carol Bishop-Gwyn, and after residing in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto, he moved with his wife into a condominium in the Lawrence Park neighbourhood. On November 29, 2001, Gwyn was appointed chancellor of St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo and was installed on March 17, 2002. The same year, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Gwyn ceased writing his column in 2016 and made his last appearance as a television panellist in 2017. He had been living with Alzheimer's disease for several years and resided at Dunfield Retirement Residence, an assisted living facility in midtown Toronto.. He died from Alzheimer's on August 15, 2020.Longtime Star columnist Richard Gwyn, dead at 86, set the standard for Canadian political journalism Major works * The Shape of Scandal: A Study of a Government in Crisis. 1965. * Smallwood, The Unlikely Revolutionary. 1965. * The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1980. * The 49th Paradox: Canada in North America. 1985. * Nationalism Without Walls. 1995. * John A.: The Man Who Made Us. 2007. * References * External links Category:1934 births Category:2020 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian civil servants Category:Canadian columnists Category:Canadian historians Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers Category:Canadian university and college chancellors Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:People educated at Stonyhurst College Category:People from Bury St Edmunds Category:Writers from Toronto Category:English emigrants to Canada Category:Toronto Star people Category:TVOntario people Category:Time (magazine) people Category:People with Alzheimer's disease "