The French protectorate of Tunisia (Protectorat français de Tunisie), commonly referred to as simply French Tunisia, was established in 1881, during the French colonial Empire era, and lasted until Tunisian independence in 1956. In the decades leading up to the French incursion, Tunisia was a province of the declining Ottoman…
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The…
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South African Republic
The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent and internationally recognised state in what is now South Africa, from 1852 to 1902. The Republic defeated the British Empire in what is often referred to as the First Boer War and remained independent until…
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Transvaal
The Transvaal Colony was the name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the establishment of the Union of South Africa in…
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Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, is a de facto state that comprises the north-eastern portion of the island of Cyprus. Recognised only by Turkey, Northern Cyprus is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus. Northern Cyprus extends from the tip…
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Cyprus, officially called the Republic of Cyprus, is an island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and is home to some of the…
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Kiribati
Kiribati (officially the Republic of Kiribati is an independent island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. It was formerly part of Gilbert and Ellice Islands before it gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979. The name Kiribati was adopted in 1979 at independence. It is…
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Tuvalu
Tuvalu (formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians. The origins of the people of Tuvalu are addressed in the theories regarding migration into the Pacific that began about three…
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The Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands (formerly Kingsmill or King’s-Mill Islands) are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean about halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. They were the British colony of the Gilbert Islands from 1976 to 1979, succeeding to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony…
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony, from 12 January 1916 until 1 January 1976, part of the British Empire. The history of the colony was mainly characterized by phosphate mining in Ocean Island. In October 1975, these islands were…
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