Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

* 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50, 000 people.

* Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army ( People's Republic of China )

The true alligators are today represented to two species, A. mississippiensis in the southeastern United States, which can grow to 4. 24 m ( 14 ft ) and weigh 1000 lbs ( 454. 5 kg ) and the small A. sinensis in the Yangtze River, People's Republic of China, which grows to an average of 1. 5 m ( 5 ft ).

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

* 1987 – Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

* Xishuangbanna, People's Republic of China – since 1997

Arbor Day ( 植樹節 ) has been a traditional holiday in the Republic of China since 1927.

In 1981, the fourth session of the Fifth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China adopted the " Resolution on the unfolding of a nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign ".

The People's Republic of China celebrates Arbor Day on March 12, a day founded by Lin Daoyang, continue to use following the date of Arbor Day of Republic of China.

In order to free his client of implication in the First Catilinian Conspiracy, he places the blame solely on Catiline who, conveniently, had waged war against the Republic in the previous months.

Declaring himself the " champion of Greek freedom against Roman domination ", Antiochus III waged a war against the Roman Republic in mainland Greece in autumn of 192 BC only to be defeated.

The Doppers waged an intellectual war against outlander culture which was flooding into the South African Republic through the mass settlements of foreign squatters lured by gold and diamonds.

The Algeria-backed Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on February 27, 1976, and waged a guerrilla war against both Morocco and Mauritania.

The Allied War (" Social " from socii (" allies "); also called the Italian War, the War of the Allies or the Marsic War ) was a war waged from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of the other cities in Italy, which prior to the war had been Roman allies for centuries.

Together, they waged war on the Republic, stealing Jedi students from Ossus and subverting them to the dark side.

In Africa, where Angolan rebels had waged a multi-faction independence war against Portuguese rule since 1961, a two-decade civil war replaced the anti-colonial struggle as fighting erupted between the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), backed by the Cubans and Soviets, and the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA ), backed by the United States, the People's Republic of China, and Mobutu's government in Zaire.

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged since 1987 by the Lord's Resistance Army ( LRA ) rebel group, currently operating in South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic.

He collected an army of peasants and waged a private war against the government of the First French Republic.

The Muslim Warlord Ma Qi waged war in the name of the Republic of China against the Labrang monastery and Ngoloks.

The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland ( and its institutions ) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

The Dutch tried to vainly hang on to their colonial possessions in Indonesia during the Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 – 1948 ), but lost the military and still later political battles they waged, to the newly founded Republic of Indonesia.

They stated as their purpose the cherishing the memories and associations of the war waged in defense of the unity and indivisibility of the Republic ; the strengthening of the ties of fraternal fellowship and sympathy formed by companionship in arms ; the relief of the widows and children of dead companions of the order ; and the advancement of the general welfare of the soldiers and sailors of the United States.

In the wake of the March 2005 Tulip Revolution which sent Akayev into exile in Russia, he was appointed Prosecutor General of the Kyrgyz Republic and waged a determined campaign against Akayev and his family, seeking the return of much of the fortune amassed by the former president's family and a repeal of Akayev's immunity for life.

The last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic.

This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years.

In 1329, he began a long war with the Republic of Genoa.

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

Shortly after Marlborough landed in the Dutch Republic on 14 April, news arrived of major Allied setbacks in the wider war.

In the end England and the Dutch Republic took control of the newly won territory for the duration of the war ; after which it was to be handed over to the direct rule of ‘ Charles III ’, subject to the reservation of a Dutch Barrier, the extent and nature of which had yet to be settled.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops launched an offensive which, in 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war, collapsed the Khmer Republic.

After the ending of the war, all refugees were repatriated to Sudan ; the last of the 9, 700 remaining in Central African Republic were evacuated in April 2007.

Abstentionism gave the movement legitimacy, the right to wage war, to speak for a Republic all but established in the hearts of the people ".

* Masamune Shirow's other major work, Appleseed also contains a multitude of cyborg characters, with one of the main characters, Briareos Hecatonchires, the mercenary Sokaku Tatara and his war buddies, and the Mumna Holy Republic diplomat Kainisu, from the fourth chapter, are just a few.

Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

* 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be " a date which will live in infamy ", after which the U. S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.

* 1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.

As the Auto Union company originally was situated in Saxony in what became the German Democratic Republic, it took some time for it to regroup after the war ended.

However, ten years later, Stadtholder Maurice of Orange, proposed to continue the war with Spain, but also to distract attention from Spain to the Republic.

When the Twelve Years ' Truce in 1621 was over, the Republic had a free hand to re-wage war with Spain.

After the King's execution, war broke out between the new Republic and virtually every major power in Europe.

The Spanish founded modern day Quito and Guayaquil as part of the political-administration era which lasted until the war of Independence, the rise of Gran Colombia and Simón Bolívar to the final separation of his vision into what is known today as the Republic of Ecuador.

Despite the Roman victories at sea, the Roman Republic lost countless ships and crews during the war, due to both storms and battles.

After the war, Greater Poland was fully within the Polish People's Republic, as Poznań Voivodeship.

The war, which cost between 300, 000 to 1, 000, 000 lives, ended with the destruction of the Republic and the accession of Francisco Franco as dictator of Spain.

Peace was fragile, and war broke out again between France and the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ).

Louis XIV asked for the Dutch Republic to resume war against the Spanish Netherlands, but the republic refused.