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  • thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...
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  • in the seventeenth century. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the ... The Kalmyks are the only inhabitants of Europe whose national religion ...
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  • Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...
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  • Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...
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  • Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • The Republic of Dagestan (older spelling Daghestan) is a republic ... Situated on the eastern end of the North Caucasus Mountains along ...
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  • take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • genetic studies indicate that the ancestors of the Tibetan people diverged ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...
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  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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  • Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...
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  • Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located ... and Peru), with an area more than twice that of France. ...
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  • Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...
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  • in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...
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  • right|250px|Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. 1910]] Nomadic people, also known as nomads, are communities of people that ...
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  • Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...
    43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
  • The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... and linguistic groups, with the cultures of both the central and western ...
    36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
  • military clan-uniform. In many parts of the West, wearing a skirt may ... A gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated particularly ...
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  • with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million ... Sydney is one of the most multicultural cities in the world which ...
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  • fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...
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