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91Early history of European settlement in Zimbabwe — This article covers the early history of European settlement and exploration in what is now Zimbabwe, ranging from the arrival of the Portuguese to the establishment of the colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923.Arrival of the PortugueseIn the early …
92Pyrenees, Peace of the — ▪ France Spain [1659] also called Treaty Of The Pyrenees (Nov. 7, 1659), peace treaty between Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain that ended the Franco Spanish War of 1648–59. It is often taken to mark the beginning of French… …
93Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia — The Arbitration Commission of the Conference on Yugoslavia (commonly known as Badinter Arbitration Committee) was a commission set up by the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community on 27 August 1991 to provide the Conference on… …
94Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference — The Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference was held in Beijing, China from October 2 12, 1952. Delegates from dozens of countries attended the conference, which including a number of speeches and opening remarks by Chinese communist leader Mao… …
95Drogheda Peace Proposals — At this rather incongruous site (a town near Dublin, Ireland), the United States persuaded the warring Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) factions to meet and try to reach a settlement of their internal… …
96Sri Lankan settlement — Sri Lankan settlements are communities established in lands belonging to Tamils with help of the Sri Lankan Government for Sinhalese occupants.When the Indian Peace Keeping Forces were withdrawn from Sri Lanka, the Tamils homes were occupied by… …
97HISTORICAL 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… …
98United 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… …
99United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
100Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
