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The Kingdom of Dahomey was an African kingdom (located within the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600. The kingdom fought the First Franco-Dahomean War and Second Franco-Dahomean War with France. The kingdom was reduced and made a French protectorate in 1894. In 1904 the…

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Neukamerun was the name of Central African territories ceded by the Third French Republic to the German Colonial Empire in 1911. Upon taking office in 1907, Theodor Seitz, governor of Kamerun, advocated the acquisition of territories from the French Congo. Germany’s only major river outlet from its Central African possessions…

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Senegambia, officially the Senegambia Confederation, was a loose confederation in the late 20th century between the West African countries of Senegal and its neighbour The Gambia, which is almost completely surrounded by Senegal. The confederation was founded on 1 February 1982 following an agreement between the two countries signed on…

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The Mali Federation (Fédération du Mali) was a federation in West Africa linking the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (French Sudan) for two months in 1960. It was founded on 4 April 1959 as a territory with self-rule within the French Community and became independent after negotiations…

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Suriname, officially known as the Republic of Suriname, is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. Suriname was inhabited as early as the fourth millennium BC by various indigenous peoples, including the Arawaks, Caribs, and Wayana. Europeans arrived in the 16th century, with the Dutch establishing control…

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Belize is a Caribbean country located on the northeastern coast of Central America. It became a British colony in 1840, known as British Honduras, and a Crown colony in 1862. The Maya Civilization spread into the area of Belize between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 300 and flourished until about 1200.…

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British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1862 to 1964. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. The colony grew out of the Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, which…

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The Federation of South Arabia was an organization of states under British protection in what would become South Yemen. It was formed on 4 April 1962 from the 15 protected states of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South. On 18 January 1963 it was merged with the Crown…

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