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Subject: Nations and Peoples X
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Arbëresh intellectuals introduced the ideas of European Romanticism and Enlightenment into the Albanian-speaking ...
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Arbenz, Jacobo Guzmán (1913–1971)
Jacobo Guzmán Arbenz was president of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. After implementing democratic and ...
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Britain, peasant uprisings, 16th century
During the sixteenth century England's Tudor dynasty and Scotland's Stuart dynasty suffered a number ...
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The Glencoe Massacre took place on the morning of February 13, 1692. Two companies under Captain Robert ...
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Greece became independent in the early 1830s, after a prolonged war of liberation/secession from the ...
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The Ife and Modakeke are both Yoruba of Osun state in southwestern Nigeria. According to local ancestral ...
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Intifada is the Arabic word for “shaking off.” It is the name given to two recent popular uprisings of ...
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Iran, Kurdish national autonomy movement
The Kurds are the largest non-state nation in West Asia, and their homeland, Kurdistan, remains distributed ...
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Iran, the Mossadegh era: democratic socialists and the US-backed coup
Imperialist exploitation of Iran was carried out primarily through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (renamed ...
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Ireland, Age of Revolutions, 1775–1803
In her study of eighteenth-century Ireland, Edith Mary Johnston (1974) employs an elegant aphorism to ...
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