able
... was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine was able to bring about a short-lived period of independence (1917-20), but was reconquered and forced ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
able
... around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; The Bahamas and US have not been able to agree on a maritime boundary; US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/i_ti.html
Abogo
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS [Placido MICO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE (ruling party) [Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/d_gv.html
abolished
... who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
abolished
... km water: 500 sq km note: includes the exclave of Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region; the region's autonomy was abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/b_mp.html
abolished
... in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
abolished
17 years of age for voluntary military service in the Federation and in the Republika Srpska; conscription abolished January 2006; 4-month service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/h_ml.html
abolished
... country, lasted seven years. The 1974 democratic elections and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy. In 1981, Greece joined the EC (now the EU); it became the 12th ...
www.exxun.com/Greece/a_fg.html
abolished
no regular military forces - small coast guard; the regular Haitian Armed Forces (FAdH) - Army, Navy, and Air Force - have been demobilized but still exist on paper unless they are constitutionally abolished (2007)
www.exxun.com/Haiti/h_ml.html
abolished
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in June 2004; 6-month service obligation, with reserve obligation to age 50 (2006)
www.exxun.com/Hungary/h_ml.html
abolished
18-27 year of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished January 2005; women may serve in any military branch; 10-month service obligation, with a reserve obligation to age 45 (Army and ...
www.exxun.com/Italy/h_ml.html
abolished
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished January 2007; under current law, every citizen is entitled to serve in the armed forces for life (2006)
www.exxun.com/Latvia/h_ml.html
abolished
compulsory national military service abolished August 2006
www.exxun.com/Montenegro/h_ml.html
abolished
NA; note - in 2006, Parliament abolished the birthday of King GYANENDRA (7 July) and Constitution Day (9 November) as national holidays
www.exxun.com/Nepal/d_gv.html
abolished
on 10 February 1990, the government of then President ENDARA abolished Panama's military and reformed the security apparatus by creating the Panamanian Public Forces; in October 1994, Panama's Legislative Assembly ...
www.exxun.com/Panama/h_ml.html
abolished
... sugar cane introduced slavery to the island in the late 18th century; the practice was not abolished until 1848. The island became a free port in 1939; the tourism industry was dramatically ...
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/a_fg.html
abolished
... state of war or impending war, conscription can begin at age 16; conscription is to be abolished in 2010; 9-month service obligation, with a reserve obligation to age 60 for men ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/h_ml.html
abolished
17-30 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2006; women are eligible to serve (2007)
www.exxun.com/Slovakia/h_ml.html
abolished
17 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2003 (2007)
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/h_ml.html
abolished
... election, allowing it to amend the constitution at will and recreate the Senate, which had been abolished in the late 1980s. In April 2005, Harare embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
abolition
... a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/a_fg.html
abolition
... the island in 1655 and established a plantation economy based on sugar, cocoa, and coffee. The abolition of slavery in 1834 freed a quarter million slaves, many of whom became small farmers ...
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/a_fg.html
abolition
... the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
