The new nation was defined as consisting of the entire archipelago, despite the fact that France maintains control over Mayotte.

France maintains a small troop presence in Comoros at government request.

France maintains one of its largest military bases outside France in Djibouti.

There are no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 50 to 100 scientists, engineers and researchers.

France maintains an embassy in Vientiane.

Through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Latvia maintains embassies in Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan.

Macedonia today maintains a low debt-to-GDP ratio and is experiencing a revitalized investment interest by companies from Germany, France, Austria, and others.

Niger maintains a special relationship with France and enjoys close relations with its West African neighbours.

Oman maintains a small but professional and effective military, supplied mainly with British equipment in addition to items from the United States, France, and other countries.

St. Kitts and Nevis also maintains diplomatic relations with the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Cuba and South Korea, as well as with many Latin American countries and neighboring Eastern Caribbean states.

It maintains friendly relations with the major powers active in the Caribbean, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.

He maintains homes in Paris, France, Malaysia, and Los Angeles.

France still maintains an air force base at Yoff and the French fleet is serviced in Dakar's port.

( Tufton Beamish maintains that he escaped to France after the Battle of Lewes and died there in 1269 ).

Although neighbouring Belgium currently recognizes and fosters both Picard and Dutch, and a few city-level governments within Nord-Pas-de-Calais have introduced initiatives to encourage both languages, the national French government maintains a policy of linguistic unity and generally ignores both languages, as it does with other regional languages in France.

It maintains close relations with France and the European Union, with which it entered an Association Agreement in 1995.

UDP maintains agreements with 120 universities from countries such as: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Spain, The United States, Venezuela.

Traditionally, Argentina maintains close defense cooperation and military-supply relationships with the United States, and to a lesser extent, with Israel, Germany, France, Spain, Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Italy.

Andorra maintains six embassies abroad: in Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and the United States ( in New York ).

* France: Lead Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Maintainer – The scope of SNCF ’ s maintenance duties is staggering: it maintains of track, 26, 500 main sets of points and crossings, 2, 300 signal boxes, 80, 000 track circuits, over 1 million relays, etc.

Although France is a centralized State, Abertzaleen Batasuna, a Basque nationalist party, maintains a presence in some municipalities through local elections.

* The Institut Géographique National, a French state establishment which produces and maintains geographical information for France and its territories

The World Jewish Congress headquarters are in New York City, US, and the organization maintains international offices in Brussels, Belgium ; Jerusalem, Israel ; Paris, France ; Moscow, Russia ; Buenos Aires, Argentina ; and Geneva, Switzerland.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.

A very small number of his instruments survive, dated between the years of 1560 and 1574 and most bearing the coat of arms of Charles IX of France.

Some immigrated to France, where they formed a large Jewish community, that outnumbered Jews in the United States, but relatively small compared to European Jews.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

William IV, Count of Nevers had promised the Christian bishops of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should fall under Muslim control, he would welcome them in the small town of Clamecy in present-day Burgundy, France.

A number of small patrol boats have been acquired or ordered from France.

In the 1930s, as caving became increasingly popular, small exploration teams both in the Alps and in the karstic high plateaus of southwest France ( Causses and Pyrenees ) transformed cave exploration in both a scientific and recreational activity.

The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

A small international conference was held in 1904, leading to the first world congress in August 1905 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

A small minority of Protestants living in France, such as the Huguenots, wanted an anti-Catholic regime and revenge against the clergy who discriminated against them.

The rapidly escalating Balkan crisis of 1914 caught France unawares, and it played only a small role in the coming of World War I.

From these early influences individualist anarchism in different countries attracted a small but diverse following of bohemian artists and intellectuals, free love and birth control advocates ( see Anarchism and issues related to love and sex ), individualist naturists nudists ( see anarcho-naturism ), freethought and anti-clearical activists as well as young anarchist outlaws in what came to be known as illegalism and individual reclamation ( see European individualist anarchism and individualist anarchism in France ).

When John was a small boy, his father left for World War I and served in Gallipoli and France.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Luxembourg is a small country located in the Low Countries, part of North-West Europe It borders Belgium ( 148 kilometres ) to the west and north, France ( 73 km ) to the south, and Germany ( 138 km ) to the east.

He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just across the border from France.

After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of " unités " ( the housing block unit of the Radiant City ) around France.

It was left incomplete at the time of Melzi's death more than fifty years later, with only a small amount of the material on anatomy included in Leonardo's Treatise on painting, published in France in 1632.

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra, British overseas territory of Gibraltar and a small amount of southern France.