nation
Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came ...
www.exxun.com/Italy/a_fg.html
Nation
... Jordanian People's Democratic Party (Hashd) [Ahmad YUSUF]; Jordanian Rafah Party; Jordanian Renaissance Party; Mission Party; Nation Party [Ahmad al-HANANDEH]; National Action Party (Haqq) [Tariq al-KAYYALI]; National Constitutional Party [Abdul ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/d_gv.html
nation
... tribes who migrated into the region in the 13th century, were rarely united as a single nation. The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century, and Kazakhstan became a Soviet ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/a_fg.html
nation
... old reign ended, and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. After some early progress in rooting out corruption and encouraging donor support, the KIBAKI government ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/e_ec.html
nation
... s Assembly (SPA) reelected KIM Jong Il chairman of the National Defense Commission, a position accorded nation's "highest administrative authority"; SPA reelected KIM Yong Nam president of its Presidium also with ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/d_gv.html
nation
... part to severe summer flooding followed by dry weather conditions in the fall of 2006, the nation suffered its 13th year of food shortages because of on-going systemic problems including a ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
nation
peaks of Tien Shan and associated valleys and basins encompass entire nation
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/b_mp.html
nation
Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964. After three decades of one-party rule under President Hastings Kamuzu BANDA the country held multiparty ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/a_fg.html
nation
... Mauritania has extensive deposits of iron ore, which account for nearly 40% of total exports. The nation's coastal waters are among the richest fishing areas in the world, but overexploitation by ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/e_ec.html
nation
... 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/a_fg.html
nation
major drug-producing nation; cultivation of opium poppy in 2005 amounted to 3,300 hectares yielding a potential production of 8 metric tons of pure heroin, or 17 metric tons of "black tar ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/i_ti.html
nation
... War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/a_fg.html
nation
... on the United Nations Development Fund index of human development. It is a landlocked, Sub-Saharan nation, whose economy centers on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/e_ec.html
nation
... on Islamabad's marginalization of Bengalis in Pakistani politics - resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/a_fg.html
nation
... 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of agreements between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria partitioned Poland ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/a_fg.html
nation
... the growth in wireless telephony domestic: mobile-cellular service available since 1993 and provided by three nation-wide networks with a fourth provider beginning operations in late 2006; cellular coverage is generally ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/f_cm.html
nation
... in eight years, driven in part by the depreciation of the currency, rising energy costs, a nation-wide drought affecting food prices, and a relaxation of fiscal discipline. Romania hopes to adopt ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
nation
The island nation has been able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries, with a surge in foreign direct investment in 2006, attributed to the ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/e_ec.html
nation
... mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name ...
www.exxun.com/Samoa/a_fg.html
nation
... changes in leadership and two failed coup attempts in 1995 and 2003. The recent discovery of oil in the Gulf of Guinea promises to attract increased attention to the small island nation
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/a_fg.html
nation
... right to secede from the federation and - following a successful referendum - it declared itself an independent nation on 3 June 2006. Two days later, Serbia declared that it was the successor state ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
nation
Sierra Leone is an extremely poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources, its physical and social infrastructure is not well developed, and ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/e_ec.html
