Palos Verdes Peninsula

The Palos Verdes Peninsula is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. It is located south of the cities of Torrance and Carson, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west and south, and the Port of Los Angeles on the east. The peninsula contains a group of affluent coastal cities in the Palos Verdes Hills, including Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills and Rolling Hills Estates. The peninsula also physically includes the Los Angeles City neighborhood of San Pedro; however, San Pedro lies on flatlands to the east of the Palos Verdes Hills, and is sometimes not considered to be part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, culturally speaking. The Palos Verdes Peninsula can be considered part of the South Bay region of the Los Angeles metro area.

The affluent hill cities on the peninsula are known for dramatic ocean and city views, distinguished schools, extensive horse trails, and high home prices.

Verdes

Verdes is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.

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Verdes (Bolivia)

Verdes (short for Verdad y Democracia Social, 'Truth and Social Democracy' — VERDES; the acronym means Greens) is a political party in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia founded in 2009 and led by Rubén Costas. In the 2010 departmental elections, Costas won the governorship of Santa Cruz, which he had previously governed as prefect.

Verdes held its first congress in June 2011.

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Bogdana, Vaslui

Bogdana is a commune in Vaslui County, Romania.

The commune of Bogdana is one of the most developed communes of Vaslui County from an agricultural and economic point of view.

Bogdana is situatated in the central-west part of Vaslui county. It falls within the region of the Tutova Hills, with the hilly landscape characteristic of that zone.

On is bordered on the north by the commune Puşcaşi, on the east by the commune Lipovăț, on extreme southeast by the commune Bogdăneşti, on the southwest by the commune Alexandru Vlahuţă, on the south by the commune Bogdănița, and on the west by the commune Poienești.

The commune is composed of nine villages: Arşiţa, Bogdana, Fântâna Blănarului, Găvanu, Lacu Babei, Plopeni, Similişoara, Suceveni and Verdeş. The surface area is 5,337 hectares (13,190 acres) and the population is 3125 people. The principal economic activities are agriculture and milling and processing wood.

History

Bogdana traces back to a 15th-century settlement under the name of Zvasteleşti, at the site of the present-day village of Bogdana. A 20 October 1468 document from Stephen III of Moldavia (Ştefan cel Mare), mentions a bargain between Toader Zvasteala (after whom the village was named) and his sisters "the first living in the village of Zvasteleşti, but the others in the village of Sarbaneşti, both in Bogdana." Other nearby villages mentioned are Horjastii, Sarbaneşti, and others that no longer exist. The present-day village of Suceveni dates from the 18th century, Fântâna Blănarului from 1830, Similişoara from 1845, and Lacu Babei from 1880.