Unrecognized countries tourism and Iraqi Kurdistan vacations? The last day is reserved for the weirdest and most peculiar place in Kurdistan: Lalish. Have you ever heard of Yazidism? Yazidis are a religious group who mainly live across the Middle East, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Russia but Iraq has the largest population. Their religion is monotheist and it is a mix of Zoroastrianism, Islam, Christianism, and Judaism. It is a bit complicated so I don’t want to enter into details and I don’t really know it anyways. One of their holiest places is Lalish, a tiny village in Iraqi Kurdistan which has a very holy Yazidi temple.

South Ossetia, officially the Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania, or the Tskhinvali Region, is a disputed territory in the South Caucasus, in the northern part of the internationally recognised Georgian territory. South Ossetia is a country that seceded from — but is still claimed by — Georgia. Central Georgia’s Kartli region lies to its south and east and the Rioni Region to its west. To the north is the ethnically identical North Ossetia region of Russia’s North Caucasus. Large parts of South Ossetia, a breakaway territory of Georgia, enjoyed de facto independence after a civil conflict ended in 1992. A 2008 war that drew in Russian forces resulted in the expulsion of the remaining Georgian government presence. Discover additional details on Unrecognized Countries Tourism.

Georgia is the world’s fourth-largest hazelnut producer, so it comes as no surprise that Italian company Ferrero—of Ferrero-Rocher, Kinder, and Nutella—runs a nut-processing facility in Georgia. What is surprising, given the Georgian-Abkhazian trade embargo, is that at least one-tenth of Georgia’s hazelnut exports originate in Abkhazia, according to The Economist. So, if you’ve dipped into a Nutella jar while on vacation in Europe, you may have enjoyed some literal forbidden fruit.

Unrecognized countries, by their very nature, sit outside of the international system in regards to banking, trade and international relations, until the time they are recognized by the international community. As such, they base their positions upon their own national and geopolitical interests, so far national security is a significant and integral part of them. Mostly, international community members endorse central powers in order to escape separatism in their own territories, to avoid sanctions, not to promote terrorism and extremism. As such, this leads to emergence of such a phenomenon as unrecognized countries, and the institute of recognition bases on precedent but not a set of written rules. See more info on politicalholidays.com.