Formerly part of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan became independent in 1991. Its population is Muslim but it has a secular government. Like nearby Russia and Turkey, it is a member of the Council of Europe without really being in Europe. GPTEVAC claims (2023) that school CP is "considere...
Mali, also known as French Sudan, was the only independent colony to create a national currency in 1961. However, by 1984, Mali returned to use the CFA franc, with an exchange of 1 CFA France to 2 Malian francs. The CFA pegs to the euro.3 Creation of the CFA franc was in 1945, f...
Qatar became subject to the Islamic caliphate after the rise of Islam in 628 A.D. and was subsequently ruled by a number of local and foreign powers. Once a poor British protectorate, the small nation became an independent state in 1971. Now rich in oil and natural gas, Qatar is one ...
There are also manyrebel-held territories(and fully self-governing areas likePuntlandstatein Somalia) that aren't controlled by any country, but are left off the list because they don't claim to be independent. Their leaders agree in principle that they're part of another country, even if ...
There was a strong incentive to become independent from Chilean nitrate supply and an understanding that the solution would be found in the unlimited availability of nitrogen in the air. Germany had pushed technological development to gener- ate synthetic ammonia. Fritz Haber laid the foundations for...
It was also impossible to realise an independent monetary or trade policy. The economic problem of such highly developed, small countries was that their economies were dependent of trade with number of countries, which during these years became members, sometimes the centre of separated economic ...
Tajikistan became independent in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and experienced a civil war between regional factions from 1992 to 1997. Turkmenistan Annexed by Russia in the late 1800s, Turkmenistan later figured prominently in the anti-Bolshevik movement in Central Asia. In 1924...
Qatar became subject to the Islamic caliphate after the rise of Islam in 628 A.D. and was subsequently ruled by a number of local and foreign powers. Once a poor British protectorate, the small nation became an independent state in 1971. Now rich in oil and natural gas, Qatar is one ...
morocco remained independent for much of its history. once part of the roman empire, the country was ruled by a series of kingdoms after the arab conquest of the late seventh century. morocco thwarted attempts at turkish and european control until the country became a french protectorate from 19...
After 1994, the total GDP surpassed that of several other countries and became the first. More interestingly, data from the BRICS countries show that under the global financial crisis triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, almost all the economic growth rates of the BRICS countries ...