Category: Countries

Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country that forms Eastern Arabia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the north-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar has been ruled by the House of Thani since Mohammed bin Thani signed a treaty with the British in 1868 that recognised its…

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as…

During the Second Boer War, the British forces entered the territory of the Orange Free State and occupied the capital Bloemfontein on 13 March 1900. Five months later, on 6 October 1900, the British government declared an official annexation of the full territory of the Orange Free State, despite the…

The Orange Free State (Oranje Vrijstaat), was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. It is one of the three historical precursors to the present-day Free State province. The Republic’s name derives partly from the Orange River, which…

Iran (also called Persia), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia. Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Iranian Medes in the seventh…

Tibet is a region in East Asia covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and…