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The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability, enforced by a hegemon, a so-called Pax imperia ("Imperial peace"). The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order. The corresponding hegemon is stated in parentheses.
Long Peace" is a term for the unprecedented historical period of relative global stability following the end of World War II in 1945 to the present day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The period of the Cold War (1947–1991) was marked by the absence of major wars between the superpowers of the period, the United States and the Soviet Union .
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
Pax Americana [1] [2] [3] (Latin for ' American Peace ', modeled after Pax Romana and Pax Britannica), also called the "Long Peace", is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later in the world after the end of World War II in 1945, when the United States [4] became the world's dominant economic, cultural, and military power.
Within the EEA, there have been no military conflict since 1945, making it the longest period of peace on the western European mainland since the Pax Romana. The European Union was awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its efforts to maintain and actively foster peace within its borders as well as internationally through ...
In a New Mexico PBS series, "A Commitment to Peace," it looks closely at how the following dramatic Cold War years were complicated by personalities, ideologies, old fears and new visions. Michael ...
Warring States period: 453 BC: 223 BC: 230 years Muslim conquests of Afghanistan: 642: 870: 228 years Polish-Russian Wars: 1577: 1794: 217 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day Byzantine–Ottoman wars: 1265: 1479: 214 years [citation needed] Polish–Teutonic War: 1308: 1521: 213 years Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula: 218 BC: 19 BC: 199 ...
An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners, a decision endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani, paving the way for peace ...