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- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the ... countries which includes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. In linguistic ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Canadian government, the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870 and the North-West ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for political ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- ]]/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions ... The state ranks fourth in area, but 44th in population with 944,632 ...59 KB (8,584 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... Britain and Iran fought a war in 1856 over territory between Iran ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of Turkic ethnic groups, the largest ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... rule, Kingston became the prosperous center of Jamaica's trade, and a ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- αι Αθήναι in Greek until recently, and η Αθήνα now (IPA ... : singular see below: Origin of the name ) is both the largest and ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ... east of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is well-known as a destination ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... are Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, and San Marino. ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... Some 12,000 years ago it was occupied by Native American populations ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth largest metropolitian ... Toronto is heralded as one of the most multicultural cities in the ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan ... full-scale war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender body, long hind legs ... New World habitat type. A capable stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- , formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ... developing it into a major urban center and naval base. By the twentieth ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... non-conformists (later called Pilgrims) and Puritans from England seeking ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... called marathon the same term to name the area where it grew; "marathon ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the Dirty War in France and ... African, Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese ethnic minorities ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Lawrence's public image was due in part to U.S. traveler and ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... Algerian society has considerable historical depth and has been subjected ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... |image=[[Image:Anishinabe.svg|200px]] Crest of the Ojibwa people ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Belarus (Belarusian and Russian: Беларусь, transliteration: ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth ... Its name derives from the Latin argentum, meaning silver, and was ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... Barbados' total land area is about 430 square kilometers, (166 ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly fifth ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
