The Morocco, or since 1957, officially the Kingdom of Morocco (Royaume du Maroc) , formerly Sherifian Empire, is a unitary state regionalized located in North Africa. Its political regime is a constitutional monarchy . It’s administrative and political capital is Rabat and its largest city, as well as its economic…
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French Morocco
The French Protectorate of Morocco (Protectorat français au Maroc), also known as French Morocco, was the French military occupation of a large part of Morocco established in the form of a colonial regime imposed by France while preserving the Moroccan royal regime known as the Sherifian Empire under French rule.…
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Easter Island
Easter Island (Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. It is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. The island is most famous for its…
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The literal meaning of the term “Honduras” is “depths” in Spanish. The name could either refer to the bay of Trujillo as an anchorage, fondura in the Leonese dialect of Spain, or to Columbus’s alleged quote that “Gracias…
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. Denmark proper, which is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The unified kingdom…
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Kamerun
Kamerun was an African colony of the German Colonial Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today’s Republic of Cameroon. Kamerun also included northern parts of Gabon and the Congo with western parts of the Central African Republic, southwestern parts of Chad and far eastern parts of Nigeria.…
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Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The name Anguilla is from the Italian anguilla, meaning “eel” (in turn from the Latin anguilla, diminutive of anguis, snake) in reference to the island’s shape.…
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North Borneo (Crown Colony)
The Crown Colony of North Borneo was a British Crown colony on the island of Borneo established in 1946 shortly after the dissolution of the British Military Administration. The Crown Colony of Labuan joined the new Crown Colony during its formation. It was succeeded as the state of Sabah through…
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North Borneo (Japanese Occupation)
In World War II, the Japanese invasion of the island of Borneo started with the unopposed landing of the Japanese forces at Miri and Seria on 16 December 1941, with the objective of securing oil supplies. On 1 January 1942, the Japanese navy landed unopposed in Labuan. The next day,…
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British Military Administration: North Borneo
World War 2 ended on 15 August 1945 following the Japanese surrender and the administration of North Borneo was undertaken by the British Military Administration (BMA) from September. The company official administration returned to administer the territory but, unable to finance the reconstruction cost after the war, ceded administration of…
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