invaded ... neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil ... www.exxun.com/Greece/a_fg.html
invaded ... seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captured the ringleaders ... www.exxun.com/Grenada/a_fg.html
invaded ... Norwegians resisted the cession of their country to Sweden and adopted a new constitution. Sweden then invaded Norway but agreed to let Norway keep its constitution in return for accepting the union ... www.exxun.com/Norway/a_fg.html
invaded Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional ... www.exxun.com/Somalia/i_ti.html
invaded ... World War II. East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. It was incorporated into Indonesia in July ... www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
invaders ... In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurated a golden age. In 1860, Spain occupied northern Morocco and ushered in a ... www.exxun.com/Morocco/a_fg.html
invaders ... Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945, but fought each other and ethnic opponents as much as the invaders. The military and political movement headed by Josip TITO (Partisans) took full control of Yugoslavia ... www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
invading ... Conditions began to improve in late 2002 with the withdrawal of a large portion of the invading foreign troops. The transitional government reopened relations with international financial institutions and international donors, and ... www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
invalid ... Toomas Hendrik ILVES elected president on 23 September 2006 by a 345-member electoral assembly; ILVES received 174 votes to incumbent Arnold RUUTEL's 162; remaining 9 ballots left blank or invalid www.exxun.com/Estonia/d_gv.html
invalid ... is selected by the National Assembly election results: MUSHARRAF reelected on 6 October 2007 (next election to be held in October 2012); MUSHARRAF 671 votes; Wajihuddin AHMED 8 votes; 6 votes invalid www.exxun.com/Pakistan/d_gv.html
invalidated ... but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local immigration order that had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the special ... www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/a_fg.html
invalidated ... place on 26 December 2004 after the earlier 21 November 2004 contest - won by YANUKOVYCH - was invalidated by the Ukrainian Supreme Court because of widespread and significant violations; under constitutional reforms that ... www.exxun.com/Ukraine/d_gv.html
invasion ... forced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched ... www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
invasion ... World War II, a truncated Czechoslovakia fell within the Soviet sphere of influence. In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize Communist ... www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/a_fg.html
invasion ... followed by a Georgian golden age (11th-13th centuries) that was cut short by the Mongol invasion of 1236. Subsequently, the Ottoman and Persian empires competed for influence in the region. Georgia ... www.exxun.com/Georgia/a_fg.html
invasion ... to support the freely elected government. The Coalition Provisional Authority, which temporarily administered Iraq after the invasion, transferred full governmental authority on 28 June 2004 to the Iraqi Interim Government, which governed ... www.exxun.com/Iraq/a_fg.html
invasion ... southern Sakhalin Island. In 1931-32 Japan occupied Manchuria, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China. Japan attacked US forces in 1941 - triggering America's entry into World War ... www.exxun.com/Japan/a_fg.html
invasion ... seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is ... www.exxun.com/Netherlands/a_fg.html
invasion controls Khyber Pass and Bolan Pass, traditional invasion routes between Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent www.exxun.com/Pakistan/b_mp.html
invasion ... the conflict. In 1940, Romania allied with the Axis powers and participated in the 1941 German invasion of the USSR. Three years later, overrun by the Soviets, Romania signed an armistice. The ... www.exxun.com/Romania/a_fg.html
invasion ... rules the country today as required by the country's 1992 Basic Law. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while ... www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/a_fg.html
invasion Rivalry between French and Italian interests in Tunisia culminated in a French invasion in 1881 and the creation of a protectorate. Agitation for independence in the decades following World War I was ... www.exxun.com/Tunisia/a_fg.html
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