President Mobutu changed the country's official name to Zaire in 1966.

It struck an accommodating tone by advocating general use of " Taiwan " as the country's name without calling for abandonment of the name Republic of China.

The name of the national personification of Switzerland, Helvetia, and the country's Neo-Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica, are both derived from the name of the Helvetii.

In response, Rome turned up the pressure, demanding that Tirana name Italians to direct the Gendarmerie ; join Italy in a customs union ; grant Italy control of the country's sugar, telegraph, and electrical monopolies ; teach the Italian language in all Albanian schools ; and admit Italian colonists.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

The country's " A " ( second-level ) national team in that sport now bears the Jaguars name.

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.

Starting with the Western embargo on the Yugoslavian common market, and ending with the Greek embargo on Macedonia over the country's name.

An absence of infrastructure, UN sanctions on the downsized Yugoslavia, and a Greek economic embargo over a dispute about the country's constitutional name and flag hindered economic growth until 1996.

The country's name is derived from Nicarao, the name of the Nahuatl-speaking tribe which inhabited the shores of Lake Nicaragua before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the Spanish word Agua, meaning water, due to the presence of the large Lake Cocibolca ( or Lake Nicaragua ) and Lake Managua ( or Lake Xolotlán ), as well as lagoons and rivers in the region.

The country's dual name results from its complex administrative history before independence.

The local names for the pasta are many times varieties of the Italian names, such as ñoquis / nhoque for gnocchi, ravioles / ravióli for ravioli, or tallarines / talharim for tagliatelle, although some of the most popular pasta in Brazil, such as the parafuso (" screw ", " bolt "), a specialty of the country's pasta salads, are also way different both in name and format from its closest Italian relatives, in this case the fusilli (" rifle ").

In July 1997 the constitution was amended to change the country's name from " Western Samoa " to " Samoa.

This is reflected in the country's modern name, Prathet Thai or Thai ‐ land, used since 1939 ( although the name was reverted to Siam during 1945 – 49 ), in which prathet means " nation ".

* The Nguyễn Dynasty Emperor Gia Long changes his country's official name from Đại Việt to Việt Nam.

Hồ Quý Ly subsequently changes the country's name to Đại Ngu.

* Lý Nhật Tôn, third king of the Lý Dynasty, begins to rule in Vietnam and changes the country's official name to Đại Việt.

Once in power, President Ngouabi changed the country's name to the People's Republic of the Congo, declaring it to be Africa's first Marxist-Leninist state, and founded the Congolese Workers ' Party ( Parti Congolais du Travail, PCT ) as the country's sole legal political party.

* 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe ( formerly Rhodesia ) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.

Much of the country's export income comes from water, and much of its power comes from hydroelectricity.

: A " de facto government " comes into, or remains in, power by means not provided for in the country's constitution, such as a coup d ' état, revolution, usurpation, abrogation or suspension of the constitution.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

Its political support comes from the country's Shi ' a Muslim community.

Northern Greece is the country's most-visited region, with 6. 5 million tourists, while Central Greece comes second with 6. 3 million.

Although the Vespucci story remains the most popular and accepted version of the origin of the country's name, a different reason for the name comes up in the account of Martín Fernández de Enciso, a member of the Vespucci and Ojeda crew.

Security for the country's two international passenger airports comes under the purview of the Airport Police Division of the Singapore Police Force, although resources are concentrated at Singapore Changi Airport where scheduled passenger traffic dominate.

The country's name likely comes from the Hebrew word arafel (' A ' ' Ra ' ' Fel '), which means ' mist cloud darkness ' or a ' dense fog ', generally used in reference to the Apocalypse.

A great deal of Tear's wealth comes from the oil produced on the country's numerous olive farms.

The music of Mauritania comes predominantly from the country's largest ethnic group: the Moors.

In November 1967, McCarthy declared, " there comes a time when an honorable man simply has to raise the flag " to gauge the country's response and conduct a candidacy for the presidency of the United States by entering the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

* 1 January: All radio broadcasting in the Netherlands comes under full control of the country's Nazi occupiers.

Although automobiles, locomotives, and aircraft are among England's other important industrial products, a significant proportion of the country's income comes from the City of London.

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff had harsh criticism of the $ 1. 4 billion figure, the Saudi connection, and the flights out of the U. S. According to Isikoff: " Nearly 90 percent of that amount, $ 1. 18 billion, comes from just one source: contracts in the early to mid-1990s that the Saudi Arabian government awarded to a U. S. defense contractor, BDM, for training the country's military and National Guard.

One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the Home Minister is the maintenance of India's internal security ; the country's large police force comes under his ambit.

Thus, although kingship held by Dlamini royalty long predated him, in many respects Sobhuza I was the founder of modern Swaziland, along with wife Tsandzile Ndwandwe and their son Mswati II, from whom the country's name comes.

They have been reported to be one of the country's most popular groups, although other critics have questioned what it means for a group to be popular in a country where the only music legally available comes from the few state-sanctioned musicians.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

Along this avenue which saw marching soldiers from the War Between the States returning in 1865 is the National Archives building where hundreds of thousands of this country's most valuable records are kept.

* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

A planned joint hydroelectric project with neighboring Togo is intended to reduce Benin's dependence on imported energy mostly from Ghana, which currently accounts for a significant proportion of the country's imports.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand ( the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad ; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market ).

The country's topography is generally flat, with the elevation gradually rising as one moves north and east away from Lake Chad.

For example, Reserve Bank of India governor James Braid Taylor presided over the country's move from silver currency to fiat money.

An up-to-date demographic profile is unavailable from the country's government, which hasn't published census data since 1976.

The vast bulk of the population engages in subsistence farming and 55 % of the country's GDP arises from agriculture.

Services currently account for 25 % of GDP, largely because of the oversized government bureaucracy and high transportation costs arising from the country's landlocked position.

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

The country's socialist system also provided free apartments from big companies, which with the workers ' self-management investments paid for the living spaces.

In 1971, shortly after he had switched his country's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited Japan.

The study found that statistically switching the size of a country's diaspora from the smallest found in the study to the largest resulted in a sixfold increase in the chance of a civil war.

Robert Mugabe announced Zimbabwe's immediate withdrawal from the Commonwealth at the 2003 CHOGM, and Nigeria's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others on the first day of the 1995 CHOGM led to that country's suspension.

The highest post – the Hetman – was elected by the representatives from the country's districts.

The country's central spine, a northwest-southeast axis of steep volcanic slopes and deep gorges, generally varies in elevation from above sea level.

The demand for the product came mainly from the country's vast gold mines, centered on the Witwatersrand.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

Apart from being the focus of the country's literature and theatre, Dublin is also the focal point for much of Irish Art and the Irish artistic scene.