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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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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North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British protectorate located in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The territory of North Borneo was originally established by concessions of the Sultanates of Brunei and Sulu in 1877 and…
View More North Borneo (Protectorate)The North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC), also known as the British North Borneo Company (BNBC) was a British chartered company formed on 1 November 1881 to administer and exploit the resources of North Borneo (present-day Sabah in Malaysia). The territory became a protectorate of the British Empire in 1888 but…
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Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the largest island in Micronesia. People born in Guam are American citizens by birth. Indigenous Guamanians are the CHamoru, historically known…
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Guadeloupe is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. Navigator Christopher Columbus was the first European to see Guadeloupe, where he landed in 1493, and gave the island its name It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the two inhabited Îles…
View More GuadeloupeThe Faroe Islands, or the Faroes (also written Faeroes), are a North Atlantic archipelago. Between 1035 and 1814, the Faroe Islands were part of the Kingdom of Norway, which was in a personal union with Denmark from 1450. In 1814, the Treaty of Kiel transferred Norway to the King of…
View More Faroe IslandsBrazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing in 1500 of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who claimed the area for the Portuguese Empire. It remained a Portuguese colony until…
View More BrazilThe Åland Islands, or simply Åland, is an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. Åland’s autonomous status means that those provincial…
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Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a…
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