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The company was founded in 1972 in Germany, opening 20 depots in its first year. [2] In 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it began offering deliveries to East Germany. [3] It expanded to France in 1997, the United Kingdom in 2000, Austria in 2007, Italy in 2009 and Russia in 2010. [citation needed]
Patrice Latyr Evra (born 15 May 1981) is a French former professional footballer.Originally a forward, he primarily played as a left-back. [4] Evra served as captain for both Manchester United and the France national team.
Tietoevry global headquarters in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland, since 2016. Keilalahdentie 2-4, Espoo. Tietoevry Corporation (natively Tietoevry Oyj, Tieto prior to June 2019) is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services.
Global Cash Access was founded in July 1998 as a joint venture of three payment processing companies: BA Merchant Services (majority-owned by Bank of America), First Data, and USA Processing Inc. [3] [4] First Data contributed the assets of its gaming business, First Data Financial Services, which provided cash services at over 800 gaming properties; it had purchased the business earlier in ...
On 29 June 1965 the name of the commune was shortened into "Évry" only. Évry had just been chosen to become a "new town" of the suburbs of Paris, destined to host tens of thousands of suburbanites, and so the name "Petit-Bourg" (literally meaning "little borough, small town" in modern French, although etymologists think that this name was in ...
In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks founded the colony of Massalia (present-day Marseille) on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the oldest cities in France. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] At the same time, some Celtic tribes arrived in the eastern parts ( Germania superior ) of the current territory of France, but this occupation spread in the rest of ...
The name of the town literally means "Roissy in the Pays de France", and not "Roissy in the country France". Another example of the use of France in this meaning is the new Stade de France, which was built near Saint-Denis for the 1998 Football World Cup. It was decided to call the stadium after the Pays de France, to give it a local touch. In ...
The department began as a subset of the sculpture department, based on royal property and the transfer of work from the Basilique Saint-Denis, the burial ground of French monarchs that held the Coronation Sword of the Kings of France. [97] [21]: 451-454 Among the budding collection's most prized works were pietre dure vases and bronzes. The ...