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18 hours ago · Three stripes with proportions 5:6:5, the upper and lower stripes green, the middle stripe alternate white and green with proportions 1:1:1:1:4:1:1, in the fly a black lion with red nails and tongue. Flemish Brabant. 1996. The flag is a banner of the provincial arms; in practice, the lion is shown dark yellow/orange.
18 hours ago · Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire; French withdrawal following the continued loss of territory by Mexican Republic forces and American threats. Shimonoseki Campaign (1863–1864) Location: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan Britain French Empire Netherlands United States: Chōshū Domain: Allied victory French campaign against Korea
18 hours ago · The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
18 hours ago · Including approximately 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French people. Côte d'Ivoire (IPA: [kot divwaʁ] ⓘ ), also known as Ivory Coast, and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic ...
18 hours ago · Succeeded by. Mughal Empire. Bijapur Sultanate. British India. Today part of. India. The Maratha Confederacy,[a]also referred to as the Maratha Empire,[6][7][8]was an early modernpolityin the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwaand four major independent Maratha states[9][10]often subordinate to the former.
18 hours ago · Nantes is the préfecture (capital city) of the Loire-Atlantique département and the Pays de la Loire région. It is the residence of a région and département prefect, local representatives of the French government. Nantes is also the meeting place of the région and département councils, two elected political bodies.
18 hours ago · The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover ...
