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…
View More TunisiaThe 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…
View More French TunisiaGibraltar 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…
View More GibraltarThe Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The 12-year cycle is an approximation to the 11.85-year orbital period of Jupiter. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remain…
View More Thematic: Astrology – Chinese ZodiacAstrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions of celestial objects. Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to…
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