Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the

Sparsely populated province in northwest China which used to be at th

Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria

Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population -

The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 196

New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the

The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungari

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