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11Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
12Iona Yakir — Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir ( ru. Иона Эммануилович Якир; August 3, 1896, Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire ndash; June 11, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) was the Red Army commander and one of the world s major military reformers between World War I …
13Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010 — 2005 ← 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010 → Next …
14HISTORICAL 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… …
15France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
16ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …
17Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …
18Communist regime in Czechoslovakia — History of Czechoslovakia This article is part of a series Origins …
19History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) — Stalinization (1948 ndash;1963) Following the coup d état of February 1948, when the Communists definitively took power in Czechoslovakia, the country was declared a people s republic mdash; a preliminary step toward socialism and, ultimately,… …
20ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
