Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just northwest of the United States capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem 's Pool of Bethesda.
to understand who the peoples of the balkans are one must first know which countries make up the balkans the countries that make up the balkans today include greece albania macedonia bulgaria romania rump yugoslavia serbia and montenegro and bosnia herzegovina referred to as bosnia throughout this texthe term balkans is a geographical designation for the southeastern peninsula of the european continent europe has many regions of course and has two other southern peninsulas the iberian peninsula spain and portugal and the italian peninsula
Bulgaria is a country situated in south-eastern Europe, bordering Romania, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea. Its northern border with Romania follows the Danube river until Silistra.he namesake of the Balkan Peninsula stretches from the Timok Valley in Serbia curving southward towards the Sofia Basin and reaching east to the Black Sea. The Balkan Range is about 600 km long and 30 to 50 km wide and it informally splits Bulgaria into a Northern and Southern halves.