Saint Helena is a remote volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the United Kingdom, and named after Saint Helena of Constantinople. The island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was discovered by the Portuguese in 1502. From 1815-21, the island was…
View More Saint HelenaTonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian country, and also an archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. An Austronesian-speaking group linked to what archaeologists call the Lapita cultural complex reached and inhabited Tonga sometime between 1500 and 1000 BC. Scholars still debate exactly when Tonga…
View More TongaNiuafoʻou (meaning many new coconuts) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. Other names for the island are Good Hope island and Tin Can island. It got the name “tin can” from its unusual method for sending and receiving mail from abroad. Because it has no wharf or…
View More Niuafo’ouPakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the site of several ancient cultures, most notably the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, the oldest in South Asia, and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, the most extensive of the civilisations of the Old…
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Bahawalpur is a city located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Bahawalpur is the 11th largest city in Pakistan. Bahawalpur was a princely state of British India, and later Pakistan, that existed as an independent nation from 1947 to 1955. It was a part of Punjab States Agency. Bahawalpur state…
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by…
View More British Raj (British India)Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966. Though the Basotho (then known as Basuto) and their territory had been under British control starting in 1868 (and ruled by Cape Colony from 1871), the Cape Colony was unpopular and unable to control the territory. As a…
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Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. It is by far the largest of the world’s three independent states completely surrounded by the territory of another country, with Vatican City and San Marino being the other two. Additionally, it is the…
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French Sudan (Soudan Français) was a French colonial territory in the Federation of French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale Française) from around 1880 until 1959, when it joined the Mali Federation (Fédération du Mali), and then in 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali. The colony was formally called French…
View More French SudanTunisia (Tunisie), officially the Republic of Tunisia (Republique Tunisienne), is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and largest city is Tunis, located on the northeast coast, which lends the country its name. From early antiquity, Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers. Phoenicians began to…
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