Dahomey was a country in west Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin.

The independent Republic of Dahomey existed from 1960 to 1975.

In 1975, the country was renamed " The People's Republic of Benin " after the Bight of Benin ( not the unrelated historical Kingdom of Benin ) since " Benin ," unlike " Dahomey ," was deemed politically neutral for all ethnic groups in the state.

The Republic of Benin was the seat of Dahomey, one of the great medieval African kingdoms, governed from the capital, Abomey, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

By 1975 the Republic of Dahomey changed its name to the People's Republic of Benin.

Between 1960 and 1972, a succession of military coups in Benin ( known until 1975 as the Republic of Dahomey ) brought about many changes of government.

* in present Benin, since 13 October 1946 Dahomey overseas territory, on 4 December 1958 granted autonomy as Republic of Dahomey, the last ( acting ) governor, René Tirant ( b. 1907 ), stayed on as only High commissioner till the 1 August 1960 independence

The Dahomey Gap, a zone of forest-savanna mosaic that reaches to the coast, separates the Upper Guinean forests from the Lower Guinean forests, which extend along the Gulf of Guinea from eastern Benin through Cameroon and Gabon to the western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Greenberg ( 1963 ) added the Kru languages of Liberia, the Ghana – Togo Mountain languages which Westermann and Bryan had specifically excluded, and Ijaw of the Niger delta ; West Kwa included the languages from Liberia to Dahomey ( Republic of Benin ), and East Kwa the languages of Nigeria.

Sponsored by: ( 25 ) Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cuba, Dahomey, Egypt, Guinea, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Yemen Arab Republic, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

The Benin homeland ( not to be confused with the modern day country of the Republic of Benin, which was formerly known as Dahomey ) has and continues to be most significantly populated by the Edo ( also known as the Bini or Benin ethnic group ).

The two main plots concern the fictional African state of Beninia ( a name reminiscent of the real-life Benin, though that nation in the Bight of Benin was known as the Republic of Dahomey when the book was written ) making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, in a bid to speed up development from third world to first world status.

The country was renamed from Dahomey to People's Republic of Benin a year later, and the banks and petroleum industry were nationalized.

* Republic of Dahomey ( December 4, 1958 )

He served in Dahomey ( modern day Benin ), French Congo ( now Republic of the Congo ), Réunion, Madagascar, and French Guiana.

* By decree of President Mathieu Kerekou, the name of the African nation of Dahomey was changed to the People's Republic of Benin.

The Celestial Church of Christ ( CCC ) was recognized and authorized by the Republic of Dahomey ( former name of Benin ) in 1965.

The name " Republic of China " was briefly added on January 27, 2005, but has since been changed back to " none ".

In the 1994 edition, the name of the entry was changed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is officially recognised by the United Nations ( awaiting for the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute ).

In 1863 the name of the Republic was changed officially to " United States of Colombia ", and in 1886 the country adopted its present name: " Republic of Colombia ".

Although Dominican relations with its closest neighbor, the Republic of Haiti, have never been extensive, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President Hipólito Mejía.

This situation was later changed: the Head of State of the PRC is now the President of the People's Republic of China.

In 1997, Zaire was renamed the Congo Democratic Republic and changed its currency to francs.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949, relations with Japan changed from hostility and an absence of contact to cordiality and extremely close cooperation in many fields.

Hong Kong's court system has been changed since the 1997 handover of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China.

Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia ( including the Gora region in Kosovo ).

In early 1959, French Sudan ( which changed its name to the Sudanese Republic ) and Senegal united to become the Mali Federation.

On 13 July 1987 the official name of Afghanistan was changed from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to Republic of Afghanistan, and in June 1988 the Revolutionary Council, whose members were elected by the party leadership, was replaced by a National Assembly, an organ in which members were to be elected by the people.

NTA changed its name to Republic Pictures ( which was previously the name of a minor film studio, whose backlog had been sold to NTA ) in 1986, sold to Spelling Entertainment, Inc. in 1994, and was sold to Viacom in 1999, hence all the material sold to U. M .& M.

" After 1961, Egypt continued to give lip service to the idea of Arab unity by continuing to call itself " the UAR " but changed its name to " Arab Republic of Egypt " in 1973.

In 1972, the official name of the country was changed to " Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka ".

In 1978 it was changed to the " Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ".

In memory of the stonecutter, the land was renamed " Land of San Marino ", and was finally changed to its present-day name, " Republic of San Marino ".

* In Czech Republic and Slovakia, the two brothers were originally commemorated on 9 March, but Pope Pius IX changed this date to 5 July for several reasons.

" However, the National Assembly has not officially changed the national borders, as doing so may be seen as a prelude to formal Taiwan independence ( the People's Republic of China has threatened to start a war if the government of Taiwan formalizes independence ).

The NLF changed the name of South Yemen on 1 December 1970 to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( PDRY ).

Finally in February 2003, the Constitutional Charter was ratified by both republics, and the FRY Parliament and the name of the country was changed from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro.

In Asia, affairs regarding the People's Republic of China changed significantly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of Mao Zedong and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors.

* 494 BC: The year Rome changed from an Aristocratic Republic to a Liberalized Republic

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

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.

Zimbabwe and Namibia joined Angola in its military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Angolan troops remain in support of the Joseph Kabila government.

Since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, Anatolia has become Turkey, its inhabitants being mainly Turks and Kurds ( see demographics of Turkey and history of Turkey ).

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.

* 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.

* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

The previous Belarusian National Republic of March 1918 to 1919 did not have time to create armed forces in its brief existence, although attempts to create a military have been documented.

The Republic of Belarus has conducted effective military reforms within the last decade which have reshaped its armed forces as a relatively effective force for a small state in somewhat difficult economic conditions.

Due to Mugabe's policy toward White Africans, Botswana ( along with the Czech Republic ), closed its embassy in Harare.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

: The Republic of Macedonia is entered as Macedonia, the name used in its first entry in the Factbook upon independence in 1992.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

The President of the Republic has to allow any of its deployments.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.