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Countries and territories with contingents of Scouts present included Hungary, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, England, Jamaica, Trinidad, Switzerland, Sweden, Armenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Australia, New Zealand, British Guiana, Canada, Newfoundland, Ceylon, South Africa, Austria, Romania, Norway, Portugal, Siam, Spain, Haiti, Greece, France, Gibraltar, India, Philippines, United States, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Syria, Denmark, Iceland, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Malta, Palestine, Rhodesia, the Duchy of Luxemburg, and Russian Emigrant Scouts.
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The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.
Austrian rulers were more or less ready to exchange Luxembourg and other territories in the Low Countries.
Països Catalans ( in Catalan, often literally translated into English as Catalan Countries ) refers to the territories where Catalan language is historically spoken.
England and France, exhausted by the conflict, signed the Treaty of The Hague ( 1698 ), also known as the First Partition Treaty, in which they agreed to recognize Joseph Ferdinand as heir to the Spanish throne but divided the Spanish territories in Italy and the Low Countries between the French and Austrian dynasties.
In 1506, Charles inherited his father's Burgundian territories, most notably the Low Countries and Franche-Comté, most of which were fiefs of the German empire, except his birthplace of Flanders which was still a French fief, a last remnant of what had been a powerful player in the Hundred Years ' War.
Mary of Burgundy ( 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482 ) ruled the Burgundian territories in Low Countries and was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 until her death.
** Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations — list of alpha-3 and numeric codes ( a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list )
Countries in this stage include Yemen, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Bhutan and Laos and much of Sub-Saharan Africa ( but do not include South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Kenya and Ghana, which have begun to move into stage 3 ).
IDBF member associations or federations have been established in 62 countries or territories, since 1991 ( e. g. China DBA, Hong Kong DBA, Chinese Taipei DBA, Macau DBA, Singapore DBA, Australian DBF, United States DBF, Dragon Boat Canada, British DB Racing Association, Italian DBF, German DBA, Swiss DBA, South African DBA, Danish DBA, Chilean DBF, Uganda DBF, Trinidad & Tobago DBA ) as well as many others and there are a further 15 other Countries known to the IDBF, with a developing interest in Dragon Boating.
Archduke Albert VII of Austria ( 13 November 1559 – 13 July 1621 ) was, jointly with his wife, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621, ruling the Habsburg territories in the southern Low Countries and the north of modern France.
While some restrict them to Catalonia-proper, others claim to seek for the acknowledgment of the political personality of the so-called Catalan Countries, the Catalan-speaking territories as a whole.
The duchy roughly conforms to the borders and territories of the modern region of Bourgogne, but its dukes came to own considerable possessions in the Low Countries known as the Burgundian Netherlands, which were caught up in the Eighty Years ' War of the 16th and 17th centuries, and some of which later became free territories at the end of the Dutch Revolt during the Thirty Years ' War.
Her country was allied to England and cultivated a trading relationship with territories Philip conrolled in the Low Countries that he wished to reinforce.
This term has been hijacked by the Belgicists, who created the " Whole-Netherlandism " ideology or Burgundism, whose aim is a so-called " Whole-Netherlands " ( Heel-Nederland ) combining all the Low Countries into a single multilingual entity This would unite, not the territories in which Dutch people live, but all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands ( which would be similar to the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands ) and Northern France, most likely Nord-Pas de Calais ), along the lines of the historical Burgundian Circle ), creating a Greater Belgium.
* During the time of the Habsburgs ( until 1700 ), the Spanish kingdoms were also in personal union with the Kingdoms of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia and the Duchy of Milan in Italy, as well as the Spanish Netherlands and other Burgundian territories in France and the Low Countries.
Unlike other British overseas territories, they are not listed as Overseas Countries and Territories under the Treaty of Rome and their inhabitants ( who are entitled to British Overseas Territories Citizenship ) have never been entitled to British citizenship.
Countries and territories traditionally included in Polynesia include:
The main problem for Spain in Italy was French and Savoyard ambitions on the Duchy of Milan, a key territory from the strategic point of view to maintain military communications between Spain and the Low Countries and other Habsburg territories in Europe.
The Habsburg rulers ( chiefly Charles I and Philip II ), reached the zenith of their influence and power, controlling territory including the Americas ; the East Indies in Asia ; the Low Countries, territories now in France and Germany in Europe ; from 1580 to 1640 the Portuguese Empire ; and various other territories such as small enclaves like Ceuta and Oran in North Africa.
Estelades ; full name Senyera estelada, " starred flag " or " lone star flag ", from estel, " star ") is a non-official flag typically waved by Catalan independentists to express their support for an either independent Catalonia or independent Països Catalans ( Catalan Countries, i. e. the territories where Catalan is traditionally spoken ).
Countries such as the United Kingdom and France accumulated great wealth in the late 19th century through their control of trade in foreign resources, markets, territories, and people.
In the following decades, the Burgundian dukes expanded their territories in the Low Countries by the acquisition of several Imperial States: Duke Philip the Good purchased the County of Namur in 1421, inherited the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg in 1430, and seized the Counties of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland in 1432, and the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1441.
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Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.
Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).
Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.
To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.
Countries which often operate with coalition cabinets include: the Nordic countries, the Benelux countries, Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand and Ukraine.
Countries with high forest cover can be expected to be at early stages of the FT. GDP per capita captures the stage in a country ’ s economic development, which is linked to the pattern of natural resource use, including forests.
Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.
In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.
In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.
Countries with an aging population, or with a baby boom, experience increasing pre-tax Gini coefficient even if real income distribution for working adults remain constant.
In the Low Countries, an ottavino was commonly paired with an 8 ' virginals, encased in a small cubby under the soundboard of the larger instrument.
IJscolf, a game resembling Colf with the added element of an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.
Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily.
Countries in which Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Syndrome IC / PBS is now recognized with an official disability code:
* Financing Instrument for Cooperation with Industrialised and Other High Income Countries and Territories, an instrument of the European Union
Countries pictured ( clockwise from upper left ) are Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt ( across the Gulf of Aqabah ), Israel, and the disputed West Bank, with Jordan in the center.
Soon dispute plunged the surviving brothers into a civil war that was only settled in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, which split the Frankish realm into three parts, to become the kernels of France and Germany, with Burgundy and the Low Countries between them.
Countries with high numbers of land mine victims
Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.
In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ), and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states.
Countries seen as not being sufficiently compliant with such recommendations are subjected to financial sanctions.
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