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... conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. In 1697, Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island, which in 1804 became Haiti. The remainder of the island, by ...
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Western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, between Colombia and Peru
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/b_mp.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/b_mp.html
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hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
Western
... the last Russian troops left in 1994, Estonia has been free to promote economic and political ties with Western Europe. It joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004
www.exxun.com/Estonia/a_fg.html
Western
... the first step of which would be the integration of the coal and steel industries of Western Europe. The following year the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was set up when ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/a_fg.html
Western
4 divisions and 1 dependency*; Central, Eastern, Northern, Rotuma*, Western
www.exxun.com/Fiji/d_gv.html
Western
... economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is now among the highest in Western Europe. A member of the European Union since 1995, Finland was the only Nordic state ...
www.exxun.com/Finland/a_fg.html
Western
metropolitan France: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain French Guiana: Northern South ...
www.exxun.com/France/b_mp.html
Western
486 (Frankish tribes unified); 843 (Western Francia established from the division of the Carolingian Empire)
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
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... Iles Eparses): the islands and rocks are surrounded by an extensive reef system Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): climatologically important location for forecasting cyclones in the western Indian Ocean; wildlife sanctuary (seabirds, tortoises
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/b_mp.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean at the Equator, between Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea
www.exxun.com/Gabon/b_mp.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal
www.exxun.com/Gambia/b_mp.html
Western
5 divisions and 1 city*; Banjul*, Central River, Lower River, North Bank, Upper River, Western
www.exxun.com/Gambia/d_gv.html
Western
limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption; used as transshipment point for opiates via Central Asia to Western Europe and Russia
www.exxun.com/Georgia/i_ti.html
Western
... 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/a_fg.html
Western
... states (Laender, singular - Land); Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern (Bavaria), Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Saarland, Sachsen ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/d_gv.html
western
... country, dating back to World War II, has been modernized and integrated with that of the western part domestic: Germany is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/f_cm.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo
www.exxun.com/Ghana/b_mp.html
Western
10 regions; Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western
www.exxun.com/Ghana/d_gv.html
Western
... Full independence was attained in 1974, making Grenada one of the smallest independent countries in the Western Hemisphere. Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days ...
www.exxun.com/Grenada/a_fg.html
western
largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean
www.exxun.com/Guam/b_mp.html
Western
Western Europe, islands in the English Channel, northwest of France
www.exxun.com/Guernsey/b_mp.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone
www.exxun.com/Guinea/b_mp.html
Western
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/b_mp.html
western
the third-smallest country in South America after Suriname and Uruguay; substantial portions of its western and eastern territories are claimed by Venezuela and Suriname respectively
www.exxun.com/Guyana/b_mp.html
