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- Africa (35389 bytes)
16: ...'ph'' to ''f'' in Greek is datable to about the [[first century]], so this cannot really be the origin...
18: ... was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer [[Ptolemy...
55: ...acial based categorization and philosophies was a fixture of the European culture of that time. The te...
57: ...nd determining ones ancestoral past based on superficial features was highly innaccurate.
59: ... created civil war and unrest between those identified as Hutu and Tutsi which culminated with the Rwa... - North Africa (3562 bytes)
8: *[[Mauritania]]
18: ...ypt and [[Libya]], often get included in common definitions of the [[Middle East]], not being part of ...
26: ...Unicode|Mizrāḥî½}]]. Today, less than fifteen thousand remain in the region, though they r... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
40: *[[Mauritania]] - [[Nouakchott]]
109: * [[Philippines]] (Filipinas) - [[Manila]]
137: * [[Bulgaria]] - [[Sofia]]
141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
217: * [[Bolivia]] - [[Sucre]] (official capital), [[La Paz]] (seat of government) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
62: <tr><td>[[Colombo]] <td>[[Sri Lanka]] (official)
73: <tr><td>[[Dodoma]] <td>[[Tanzania]] (official)
90: <tr><td>[[Helsinki]] <td>[[Finland]]
145: ....a. [[Taiwan]]; see also [[Capital of China]]) (Official) - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ... east, [[Niger]] in the southeast, [[Mali]] and [[Mauritania]] in the southwest, and [[Morocco]] as well as a ...
19: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
21: ...r language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administration]]
62: ...n [[Hafsid]]s, and Moroccan [[Merinid]]s. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, [[Spain]] started...
64: ...Mediterranean resulted in the [[First Barbary War|First]] and [[Second Barbary War]] with the [[United... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ... among those are the [[lemur]]s. Madagascar and [[Mauritania]] are the only countries not to use a [[decimal c...
13: official_languages = [[Malagasy language|Malagas...
55: ... return, the island received British military and financial assistance. British influence remained str...
57: ...part of [[Tanzania]]) and as part of an overall definition of spheres of influence in the area. Absolu...
61: ...g]] was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. The French subsequently established reform... - Mali (7755 bytes)
3: ...Guinea]] on the south-west, and [[Senegal]] and [[Mauritania]] on the west. Its straight borders on the north...
21: | '''[[Official language]]'''
22: | [[French language|French]] (official), [[Bambara language|Bambara]], others
31: | [[Ousmane Issoufi Maïga]]
60: ...nsitional government, and in [[1992]] when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held. Upo... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree...
33: ...me to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitud... - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ...e (communication)|semaphore]]), and for the identification of those who displayed them, and are still ...
9: ... that the [[Roman Empire]]'s ''vexillum'' was the first true flag.
15: ...World War I]] these were withdrawn from the battlefields, and have been used only at ceremonial occasi...
22: ... Faroe Islands|Faroe Islands]], [[Flag of Finland|Finland]], [[Flag of Iceland|Iceland]], [[Flag of No...
24: ... [[Flag of Australia |Australia]], [[Flag of Fiji|Fiji]], [[Flag of New Zealand|New Zealand]], [[Flag ... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
25: ...[[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of Finland|Finland]] - [[Politics of France|France]] - [[Politi...
47: ...artinique|Martinique]] - [[Politics of Mauritania|Mauritania]] - [[Politics of Mauritius|Mauritius]] - [[Polit...
89: ... country but the [[Scottish Parliament]] has significant powers, so Scotland is listed separately. - Train (10331 bytes)
19: ...l and mail trains (especially [[Travelling Post Office]]s) are outwardly more like passenger trains.
21: ...reight train to be headed by three, four, or even five locomotives.
23: ...re in many countries, but were commonplace on the first 19th century railroads.
31: The first trains were rope-hauled or pulled by horses, b...
33: ...ial cost, which can only be justified on high traffic lines. Since the cost per mile of construction ... - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...er including second language speakers. It is an official or administrative language in various communi...
27: ...f the entire Gallic region for both mercantile, official and educational reasons, yet it should be rem...
60: ...owing a period of unification, regulation and purification, the French of the 17th to the 18th centuri...
62: ...f foreign words and expressions. Some recent modifications include the change from ''software'' to ''...
66: ..., the future of specific "regional" accents is difficult to predict. - Islam (36809 bytes)
10: ...h they believe to be flawless, immutable, and the final revelation of [[God]]. Muslims believe that p...
12: ...efinitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God. Islamic teaching sees [[Ju...
14: ...although Sunnis further regard this as one of the five [[pillars of Islam]].
29: ...His Scriptures; and in His Messengers; and in The Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from ...
36: ... as follows: Say "He is God, the one, the Self-Sufficient master. He never begot, nor was begotten. Th... - Harp (23216 bytes)
14: ...string by either one or two halfnotes. With this final enhancement, the modern concert harp was born.
20: ...ke a warm tone, while a pluck near the end of the finger will make a loud, bright sound.
28: ...ring and an amplifier. The electric harp is significantly heavier than an acoustic harp, but looks th...
33: ...etal core and wrapped, which are plucked with the fingers using a similar technique to that of the ped...
42: ...[[1792 Belfast Harp Festival]]. He published his first volume in 1796. He continued to collect the m... - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...rol over any territory at the time, it did not fulfill the typical requirement of an autonomous [[stat...
5: ...1604;سطين'''<br>'''Dawlat Filastin'''</font>
17: | [[Official language|Official language]]
33: ...e ambiguities it saw in the declaration and to fulfill the longheld conditions for open dialogue with ...
42: ...ibya]], [[Madagascar]], [[Maldives]], [[Mali]], [[Mauritania]], [[Mauritius]], [[Morocco]], [[Mozambique]], [[... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
1: ...ing the [[labor]] of the person concerned. A specific form, known as '''chattel slavery''', implies th...
3: ==Definitions==
4: ...ey escape. Control may be accomplished through official or tacit arrangements with local authorities ...
10: ...enerally accepted that payment of a [[wage]] signifies "[[free labour]]", with quite different disadva...
22: ==Annual ''Trafficking in Persons'' report== - Middle East (6318 bytes)
3: ...s a subregion of [[Africa-Eurasia]], or more specifically, [[Asia]], and sometimes [[North Africa]].
6: Most definitions of Middle East in established dictionaries...
15: The term ''Middle East'' defines a cultural area, so it does not have precise b...
17: ...iations, as is [[Sudan]]. The African countries [[Mauritania]] and [[Somalia]] also have links to the region. ...
21: ...r changing definitions. Before the [[World War I|First World War]], ''Near East'' was used in English... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
3: ...rnational standards in terms of the creation of official [[national symbols]] such as [[flag]]s, and p...
27: ... - County of Ŭand (''autonomous province of [[#F|Finland]], recognized by international treaty'')
110: *'''[[Fiji]]''' - Republic of the Fiji Islands
111: *'''[[Finland]]''' - Republic of Finland
146: ... of]]''' - Ireland (''[[Republic of Ireland Act|Official description]]'': Republic of Ireland) - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
220: |109||[[Zambia]]||unnamed location in [[Mafinga Hills]]||2,301m
298: |148||[[Finland]]||[[Halti]]||1,328m
300: |149||[[Fiji]]||[[Tomanivi]]||1,324m
336: |167||[[Mauritania]]||[[Kediet Ijill]]||915m
478: * [http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2020.html CIA World Factbook 2004]
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