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4 days ago · The woodcut illustration and maps in the frieze above this page are details from the amazing "Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas" of 1734. Like the work of today's global urban historians, the map allows its readers to move swiftly from intimate street-level dynamics to bird’s eye views of the city to the much larger ...
3 days ago · Orleans Territory. It might look like modern-day Louisiana, but this is actually a map of the Orleans territory, which was in existence for only a few short years, from 1804 until 1812. At that point, it was admitted to the Union as Louisiana. As you can see, some areas were in dispute by Spain and Florida.
1 day ago · Nepal, country of Asia, lying along the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain ranges. It is a landlocked country located between India to the east, south, and west and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north. Its territory extends roughly 500 miles (800 kilometres) from east to west and 90 to 150 miles from north to south.
5 days ago · The Bahamas, archipelago and country on the northwestern edge of the West Indies. Formerly a British colony, The Bahamas became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1973. The Bahamas. The name Bahamas is of Lucayan Taino ( Arawakan) derivation, although some historians believe it is from the Spanish bajamar, meaning “shallow ...
5 days ago · Golan Heights. Golan Heights. Golan Heights, near the Syrian-Israeli border. Golan Heights, hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held.
2 days ago · Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia. The capital is Kyiv, located on the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine. Ukraine. A fully independent Ukraine emerged only late in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland - Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet ...
3 days ago · Romania, country of southeastern Europe. The national capital is Bucharest. Romania was occupied by Soviet troops in 1944 and became a satellite of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1948. The country was under communist rule from 1948 until 1989, when the regime of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown.
