No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

Sihanouk then declared that independence had been achieved and returned in triumph to Phnom Penh.

The system remained in place in most areas of Spanish America up to the time independence was achieved from Spain.

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

Data independence is achieved to a great extent in contemporary DBMS, but it is not completely attainable, and achieved at different degrees for different types of database structural changes.

Having achieved independence under UN sponsorship, Equatorial Guinea feels a special kinship with that organization.

Eritrea achieved full independence on May 24, 1993.

Grenada achieved independence from Britain in 1974.

After Honduras achieved independence from Spain in the early 19th century, its economic growth became closely related to its ability to develop attractive export products.

In November 2007 two anti-government rallies occurred, precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the election system that heavily favoured the ruling political party, National Front, which has been in power since Malaya achieved independence.

It was precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the Malaysian election system that heavily favor the ruling political party, Barisan Nasional, which has been in power since Malaysia achieved its independence in 1957.

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

Ignoring his suppression of the opposition and continued factionalism within KANU the imposition of one-party rule allowed Mzee (" Old Man ") Kenyatta, who had led the country since independence, claimed he achieved " political stability.

He has more administrative independence for the museum and achieved 90 percent of galleries to be open daily, as opposed to 80 percent previously.

Before Libya achieved independence, its name was seldom used other than as a somewhat imprecise geographical expression.

The colonial structures of Malawian labor export to South African mines continued after Malawi achieved independence in 1964.

Mauritania achieved independence from France in 1960.

The general sympathy of the sultan for the nationalists had become evident by the end of the war, although he still hoped to see complete independence achieved gradually.

On 4 January 1948, Burma achieved independence from Britain, and became a democracy based on the parliamentary system.

No-one would pretend that everything was working perfectly, nevertheless, a great deal had been achieved in the first year following independence.

Nauru achieved independence in 1968.

The Finnish Red Guards achieved their only victories as they retreated from southern Finland towards Russia.

Chris Wickham states Louis spent five years campaigning to reduce then occupy Bari, " and then only to a Byzantine / Slav naval blockade "; " Louis took the credit " for the success, adding " at least in Frankish eyes ", then concludes by noting that by remaining in southern Italy long after this success, he " achieved the near-impossible: an alliance against him of the Beneventans, Salernitans, Neapolitans and Spoletans ; later sources include Sawadān as well.

Nevertheless, with the help of disaffected local barons including Count Robert of Loritello, Manuel's expedition achieved astonishingly rapid progress as the whole of southern Italy rose up in rebellion against the Sicilian Crown, and the untried William I.

The negotiations were mediated by French diplomats, who sought to prevent a complete collapse of Sweden's position on the southern Baltic coast and achieved that Sweden was to retain Wismar and northern Swedish Pomerania.

In 1965, he achieved passage of a second civil rights bill, the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time.

The first day on the Somme achieved success for the southern Allied forces but suffered tactical disaster on 2 / 3 of the British front.

While zydeco is a genre that has become synonymous with the cultural and musical identity of Louisiana and an important part of the musical landscape of the United States, this southern black music tradition has also now achieved much wider appreciation.

If he had cut off those forces as had been planned and ordered, they could have been destroyed in the same way as was achieved in France, and the German resistance in Italy would have collapsed and the Allies could have advanced up the spine of Italy and invaded Austria and southern Germany.

After a brief look at the dangerous southern approaches of Lhotse Shar, they turned their attention, during September and October, to the West Cwm and the northwest face of Lhotse, on which they achieved an altitude of about.

That year, a second Ivorian-backed rebel group, Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( MODEL ), emerged in southern Liberia and achieved rapid successes.

Morgan and Mellen achieved a complete monopoly of transportation in southern New England, purchasing other railroads and steamship and trolley lines.

Three subsequent singles, " Mr. Farmer " ( also 1966 ), a re-release of " Can't Seem To Make You Mine " ( 1967 ), and " A Thousand Shadows " ( 1968 ) achieved more modest success, although all were most popular in southern California.

Shining Path eventually grew to control vast rural territories in central and southern Peru and achieved a presence even in the outskirts of Lima, where it staged numerous attacks.

This would have required the grade separation of the two lines through Herne Hill, which would have been achieved by constructing a new viaduct immediately to the east of the existing viaduct and using a fly-over to connect the southern end of the new viaduct to the line between Tulse Hill and North Dulwich ( taking the tracks over the Chatham Main Line and towards Tulse Hill ).

Each VISTA image captures a section of sky covering about ten times the area of the full Moon and it will be able to detect and catalogue objects over the whole southern sky with a sensitivity that is forty times greater than that achieved with earlier infrared sky surveys such as the highly successful Two Micron All-Sky Survey.

In practice however, during the years 870-890 the central power was so weakened that the counts in southern France achieved complete autonomy.

Outside of Germany, the grape has achieved a moderate degree of success in producing lively wines in Italy, southern England ( where most other grapes will not ripen in many years ) Luxembourg ( where it is called Rivaner ), Czech Republic, and the United States.

Through an effective combination of force and diplomacy, the VOC achieved a structure of indirect rule in northern Maluku and direct rule in southern Maluku.

Realising that developing his forces in Taiwan into a large enough threat to unseat the Qing would not be achieved in the short term, Koxinga began transforming Taiwan into a practically proper, albeit preferably temporary, seat of power for the southern Ming loyalist movement.

The northern and southern thrusts achieved little.

During the Second Punic War, Roman troops under the command of the general Scipio Africanus achieved a decisive victory in 206 BC over the full Carthaginian levy at Ilipa ( now the city of Alcalá del Río ), near Ispal, which resulted in the evacuation of Hispania by the Punic commanders and their successors in the southern peninsula.