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11Bleiburg massacre — The Bleiburg massacre [ [http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/yugoslav hist1.htm Yalta and the Bleiburg Tragedy ] ] is a term encompassing events that took place during May 1945, three and a half months before the formal end of World War II in… …
12History of the Cossacks — The history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Early history The origins of the first Cossacks are uncertain. The traditional historiography dates the emergence of Cossacks to the 14 15th centuries. Non mainstream researchers have ascribed… …
13Georgian Legion (1941–1945) — The Georgian Legion ( de. Georgische Legion, ka. ქართული ლეგიონი, k’artuli legioni ) was a name of a Georgian military formation within the German army during World War II. Their established aim was the restoration of Georgia’s independence from… …
14Austria — Austrian, adj., n. /aw stree euh/, n. a republic in central Europe. 8,054,078; 32,381 sq. mi. (83,865 sq. km). Cap.: Vienna. German, Österreich. * * * Austria Introduction Austria Background: Once the center of power for the large Austro… …
15HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
16United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
17India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …
18japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
19Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
20World War II — WWII redirects here. For other uses, see WWII (disambiguation) …
