Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Countries participating in the SAP have been offered the possibility to become, once they fulfill the necessary conditions, member states of the EU.

Countries that have ratified the Charter, and languages for which the ratification was made:

However, this power can be lost under certain circumstances: some Countries have been forced to disarm by other Countries, upon losing a war, or by having arms embargos or sanctions placed on them.

Countries below have officially listed Hezbollah in at least some part as a terrorist organization.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified: Poland

Countries usually have different styles of stamps for entries and exits, to make it easier to identify the movements of people.

Countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa have produced numerous professional world champions such as Dick Tiger, Hogan Bassey, Samuel Peter, Azumah Nelson and Jake Matlala.

Today there are movements supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries in both Spain and France, but they only have significant support in Catalonia.

Over the last few decades, the term ' Third World ' has been used interchangeably with the Global South and Developing Countries to describe poorer countries that have struggled to attain steady economic development.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified-( 6 ) Canada, European Union, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine, United States

Countries opposed to whaling have passed non-binding resolutions in the IWC urging Japan to stop the program.

Countries can have more than one threshold.

Countries with conservative attitudes towards sex education ( including the UK and the U. S .) have a higher incidence of STIs and teenage pregnancy.

Countries party to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic have uniform rules about overtaking and lane designation.

Countries outside of Europe were by default allocated to the Trans-Atlantic zone but could choose to have their messages stored in the European zone.

Countries that do not have national systems include Ireland and Panama.

Countries, for example India, which " were far behind in the population-food game that there is no hope that our food aid will see them through to self-sufficiency " would have their food aid eliminated.

Countries that have acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness will grant nationality to otherwise stateless persons who were born on their territory, or on a ship or plane flagged by that country.

Countries that sign the convention are required to adopt national laws, and remove old ones, so that persons with disabilities will, for example, have equal rights to education, employment, and cultural life ; to the right to own and inherit property ; to not be discriminated against in marriage, etc.

Countries like Argentina that have abundant beef resources see a structural underpricing in the Big Mac.

The shield had six sections, each representing " the Countries from which these States have been peopled " ( England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland ), surrounded by the initials of all thirteen states.

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.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

On 14 December, 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 ( XV ) under titled Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples provided for the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples in providing an inevitable legal linkage between self-determination and its goal of decolonisation, and a postulated new international law-based right of freedom also in economic self-determination.

As was common at the time, the song was adopted and adapted by the besieging Protestants and it spread from there to the Low Countries.

In other languages, this has not been adopted, though the larger area is sometimes known as the Low Countries in English.

Countries which have adopted the metric system generally use the module system.

Motte-and-bailey castles were adopted in Scotland, Ireland, the Low Countries and Denmark in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Countries outside the US, which adopted the ICAO standards, permitted their airlines to operate up to 90 minutes.

Countries like Japan, Russia, and Thailand adopted a parallel system as a means by which incentives for greater party cohesiveness could be injected.

Countries unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger from the earth at the earliest possible date.

The European Union has referred to the Istanbul Protocol in its Guidelines to EU Policy towards Third Countries on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted by the General Affairs Council in 2001.

Countries like P. R. China and Vietnam adopted a gradual transition mode, however Russia and some other East-European countries, such as the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, used a more aggressive and quicker paced model of transition.

In May 2001, he led the negotiations on behalf of the least developed countries at the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, which adopted the comprehensive Brussels Programme of Action for the present decade.

Part B of resolution 222 ( XXI ), the “ Detailed Features for Future Operations Relating to the Debt Problems of Interested Developing Countries ”, were in fact an agreed “ code of conduct ” for official debt rescheduling as only governments ( UNCTAD constituency ) were represented when it was adopted.

According to Ha-Joon Chang, " Almost all NDCs Developed Countries had adopted some form of infant industry promotion strategy when they were in catching-up positions.

Countries which have adopted the New York Convention have agreed to recognize and enforce international arbitration awards.

Countries playing wheelchair rugby

The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.

More funds, of up to £ 3, 000, 000, are mentioned for the " final and satisfactory settlement of the Low Countries in union with Holland.

Charles V proclaimed the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 eternally uniting Flanders with the other lordships of the Low Countries in a personal union.

Ears of wheat were entwined in a scarlet band with the inscription in the languages of all the 15 union republics: " Workers of All Countries, Unite!

* 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.

In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (,, ) refers to a number of Imperial and French fiefs ruled in personal union by the House of Valois-Burgundy and their Habsburg heirs in the period from 1384 to 1482.

In the Low Countries, this phase began when the Franks, themselves a union of multiple smaller tribes ( many of them, such as the Batavi, Chauci, Chamavi and Chattuarii, were already living in the Low Countries prior to the forming of the Frankish confederation ), began to incur the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire.