The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627.

In 1970, QABOOS bin Said Al Said ousted his father and has ruled as s

Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial reg

Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an

After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost

The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slav

This desolate, mountainous island was named after a Dutch whaling cap

Part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Hebrides until the 13th century

Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Eur

Morocco virtually annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara (