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Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse o

After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus at

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A French possession since 1897, the island is heavily wooded; it is t

In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under whic

In 1979 the Federated States of Micronesia, a UN Trust Territory unde

The Gambia gained its independence from the UK in 1965; it formed a s