Rhodes vs Łódź

Informations

Rhodes ( (listen); Greek: Ρόδος, romanized: Ródos [ˈroðos]) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens. Rhodes' nickname is The Island of the Knights, named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island from 1310 to 1522.

Historically, Rhodes island was very famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. The name of the U.S. state of Rhode Island is thought to be based on this island.

Source: Wikipedia

Informations

The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese chu Quoc Ngu, script for the national language) uses the modern Latin writing script. It uses the Latin script that was originally created by Francisco de Pina, a Portuguese missionary. The Vietnamese alphabet has 29 letters. Five additional diacritics are used to indicate tone (as in a), a), a), a and a.

Complex vowels and numerous letters with diacritics can stack twice on one letter, such as e.g. The complex vowel system and the large number of letters with diacritics, which can even stack twice on the same letter (e.g. Diacritics are used to produce a precise sound transcription of tonal languages.

Source: Wikipedia