established
... Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature; a Constitutional Commission was also established to draft a constitution; ISAIAS Afworki was elected president by the transitional legislature; the constitution ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/d_gv.html
established
... 1974, a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled since 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problems ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/a_fg.html
established
... countries, respectively, that are, in general, less advanced technologically and economically than the other 15. Eleven established EU member states introduced the euro as their common currency on 1 January 1999 (Greece ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/e_ec.html
established
... the UK formed the first of three battle groups in 2005; Norway, Sweden, Estonia, and Finland established the Nordic Battle Group effective 1 January 2008; nine other groups are to be formed ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/h_ml.html
established
... not occur until almost a century later in 1690, and the first settlement (French) was not established until 1764. The colony was turned over to Spain two years later and the islands ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
established
486 (Frankish tribes unified); 843 (Western Francia established from the division of the Carolingian Empire)
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
established
... was a fishing industry center from 1843 to 1914. In 1928, a spiny lobster cannery was established, but when the company went bankrupt in 1931, seven workers were abandoned. Only two survived ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
established
... Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power over the next 15 years; government ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/b_mp.html
established
... stripes of blue alternating with white; there is a blue square in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the country
www.exxun.com/Greece/d_gv.html
established
... it remained uncolonized for more than a century. The French settled Grenada in the 17th century, established sugar estates, and imported large numbers of African slaves. Britain took the island in 1762 ...
www.exxun.com/Grenada/a_fg.html
established
... in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has experienced considerable political and military upheaval. In 1980, a military coup established authoritarian dictator Joao Bernardo 'Nino' VIEIRA as president. Despite setting a path to a market ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/a_fg.html
established
... were virtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/a_fg.html
established
... a series of "prisoner" popes and Italy were resolved in 1929 by three Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In ...
www.exxun.com/HolySee_VaticanCity/a_fg.html
established
... Italy on 11 February 1929 acknowledged, among other things, the full sovereignty of the Vatican and established its territorial extent; however, the origin of the Papal States, which over the years have ...
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