From Around The World I Welcome My Friends

7. Iron Berber Lady from Algeria**

North Africa - Dahia Al-Kahina - Jewish Warrior Queen*** 

I stand at the gate to welcome my friends
Many a miles they do have trekked
Big and small I welcome them all
Next time I promise I shall book a hall

1. Moldova, Europe

2.  Dame from Moldova

Moldova princess from the highlands
And Ghana lady from the coast
Holy Armenians from historical lands
And Algerian lady from the sands

3.  Ghana, Africa

4. Ghana

5. Armenia*

6.  Armenia 

I welcome you all to people and places
Take a rest and loosen your laces
Hear music, sing songs or play a game
Eat and drink or anything else you name

8. Montenegro

9. Montenegro

10. Bermuda Mystery

Montenegro, Malta, Bermuda Mystery
Mongolia, Myanmar ancient histories
Various races we belong to
Yet aim n hope n dream we do
















Of loving hearths and beautiful lands

12. Dominican Republic

All the beauty of the world
Screams Carribean baby Santo Domingo
In Norway n El Salvador do come and see

11. Dominican Republic****

Each of them do call us so
We only have to pack our bags
For food and love we all shall get
The Good Lord above will see to that

Notes:-

* Armenia officially the Republic of Armenia  is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south.

A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and historic cultural heritage. The Kingdom of Armenia became the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion in the early years of the 4th century (the traditional date is 301).  The modern Republic of Armenia recognizes the Armenian Apostolic Church as the National church of Armenia, although the republic has separation of church and state.

**Algeria officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.

In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa, the Arab World and of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea; it is also the tenth-largest country in the world. The country is bordered in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast by Niger, and in the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Its size is almost 2,400,000 square kilometres (926,645 sq mi) with an estimated population of 36.3 million as of 2011.

Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC and the United Nations. The country is also a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union.

 ***After the Fall of the 1st Temple many Jews went to what we now call North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia primarily. The indigenous peoples there were called Berbers and most converted to Judaism. In the 7th Century - the Arab conquest was taking place and their most inspirational leader not only a Woman, but a Jew. Born as Dahia - Biblical name of Deborah - she was given the name by her Arab enemies of "Al Kahina" (of the Cohen tribe). The nomadic Jews had settled in the Aures mountains and it was the Jerawa woman named Dahia who fought and slew the enemy in 683 CE. 15 years later she was once again attacked by Egyptians - won again - and then recaptured Carthage (now in Tunisia) and ruled in triumph. However, she was overwhelmed in 702 CE by Arab armies who had retaken most of the Maghreb - North Africa. She convinced her 3 sons to convert to avoid death by the Arab General Hassan. She herself continued to battle them and was killed or executed that evening. Her sons were the first Jews to land with the Moslems on Gibralter and Spain.

**** The Dominican Republic  is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries. Both by area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest Caribbean nation (after Cuba), with 48,442 square kilometers (18,704 sq mi) and an estimated 10 million people. 

Tainos ( indigenous peoples of Bahamas, Antilles, and Lesser Antilles ) inhabited what is now the Dominican Republic since the 7th century. Christopher Columbus landed on it in 1492, and it became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, namely Santo Domingo, the country's capital and Spain's first capital in the New World. Santo Domingo can boast of many firsts in the Americas, including the first university, cathedral, and castle, the latter two in the Ciudad Colonial area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ( Wikipedia )


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