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- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte is located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian ... and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... under Charles Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte ... between an old man, with an armful of branches, and a lost European ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est ... Proudhon’s concept of revolution did not entail violent upheaval ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the ... === First Assembly of Notables and peasants === The suggestion to summon ...27 KB (4,325 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- :This article refers to the government of Paris in 1871, for the one ... in tenor, depending on the ideology of the commenter. In a formal sense ...40 KB (6,079 words) - 07:58, 18 November 2022
- Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... the area that is now Bamako has been part of the great west African empires ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), is a ... Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... with monastic Christianity, although most of the city’s growth has occurred ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- 1973) was the first and third prime minister of Israel. A tough and uncompromising ... His compassion and respect for the rights of the Arab residents of Israel ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 22:27, 25 January 2024
- the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,780 square kilometers, ten ... Guadeloupe was colonized by France and is an overseas department of ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265 ... Henry agreed to reforms, including a council of fifteen to which governance ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- , literally "without breeches") were the common people of ... The sans-culottes, most of them urban laborers, served as the driving ...31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- schizoanalysis. He also developed a concept of three interacting and interdependent ... Guattari was a leading thinker of what came to be called Post-structuralism ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is just ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
- November 1, 1894) reigned as Tsar (Emperor) of Russia from March 14, 1881 ... role that his father had granted members of the educated class, he gave ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... Archaeologists place the first arrival of humans on the island to ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ... The Convention came about in the wake of the King's Flight to ...73 KB (10,932 words) - 21:23, 26 December 2022
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
