One of the truly scary counties on the planet until its anticlimactic collapse in 1991, for seven decades it stood as the bulwark of Marxist Stalinism, with all the misfortune that brought with it. "Biography of Simon Bolivar, 'Liberator of South America'International Women's Suffrage Timeline: 1851-Present You should address this problem!Pfff. It remained a nonaligned authoritarian socialist republic until 1992, when internal tensions and rival nationalism resulted in civil war. ????????? Africa is not a country because Africa is a person in the Spanish telenovela “Los Serrano” (2003-2008, Telecinco España). A monarchy established in 1867, Austria-Hungary (also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire) included not just Austria and Hungary but also parts of the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Romania, and the Balkans. In 1858, the country became known as the Grenadine Confederation, then the United States of New Granada in 1861, the United States of Colombia in 1863, and finally, the Republic of Colombia in 1886. Today, it exists as the Czech Republic in the west, and the nation of Slovakia in the east, making Czechoslovakia no more. I was thinking United Arab Emirates.Zaire didnt disappear, it just changed it just became another congoAnother person that doesn’t know the difference between England and Britain.You missed the perfect opportunity to enlighten, rather than just criticize. It was occupied by the Soviets later on. Also known as the Ethiopian Empire, Abyssinia was a kingdom in northeast Africa.

In the early 20th century, it split into the states of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern-Ireland. Though just a little bigger than What would the 20th century have been without the good ‘ol USSR to stir things up? Also known as the Turkish Empire, this empire began around 1300 and expanded to include parts of contemporary Russia, Turkey, Hungary, the Balkans, northern Africa, and the Middle East. And all the republics have existed throughout history.

Nationalist movements of countless groups in the 19th and 20th century tried to form their own states, justifying their claims from long gone historic situations that had nothing to do with the contemporary situation. And of course the people of those countries, when they e.g. However, many countries still have not recognized the change. @Danny – British monarchy left India in 1947. Great Britain is the island that contains Scotland, Wales and England. This Mediterranean island was ruled by various nations over the course of its history but had several brief periods of independence. a defeat of biblical proportions. It’s only occurred a handful of times in the last Created from the Soviet controlled sector of Germany after the Second World War, East Germany was probably best known for its Wall and its tendency to shoot people who attempted to cross over it. Czechoslovakia two nations with they own lands, East Germany had their fellows across the boarder. Just clarifying. Prussia, by World War II a federal unit of Germany, was fully dissolved at the end of World War II. Under the peaceful tutelage of a chain of Created from the forceful expulsion of the French from Indo-China in 1954, someone decided it would be a good idea to split Vietnam in two, roughly at the 17th parallel, leaving a In yet another ill-fated attempt to bring unity to the Arab world, The problem might have been rectified had Syria and Egypt managed to link their halves together by destroying Israel, but that nasty Six Days War came along in 1967, dashing their plans for a common border, and handing both halves of the U.A.R. quickly dissolved, restoring the nations of Egypt and Syria once again.One of the great empires in history, the Ottoman Empire finally came to an end in November of 1922, after a pretty respectable run of over six hundred years.