Search results for "Commonwealth of Nations" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...
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  • London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... performed by regiments of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] and ...
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  • The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...
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  • Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...
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  • Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...
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  • The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...
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  • Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...
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  • is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...
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  • The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... of American States and the Commonwealth of Nations to conclude it. ...
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  • are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands ... from the sea. Located 575 miles southeast of Miami, the Turks and Caicos ...
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  • fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... At the invitation of South Africa's first post-apartheid president ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth citizenship ...
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  • It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. ...
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  • Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... over winter. Over the next centuries, people of Nordic and Gaelic origin settled ...
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  • The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...
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  • the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...
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  • The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...
    23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
  • Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...
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  • Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...
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