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Map of the territories having been controlled by France in North America. This map shows the Louisiana Purchase area, which corresponds approximately with the western half of colonial French Louisiana, the part not ceded to English-speaking peoples in 1763. Taking up of the Louisiana by La Salle in the name of the Kingdom of France New France ...
France–Nepal relations are diplomatic relations between France and Nepal. [1] France–Nepal relations were officially established on 20 April 1949. [2] [3] Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana in Paris, 1850. Nowadays there are tens of thousands of Nepali citizens that have immigrated to and reside in France, mostly in the Paris Ile-de-France ...
Xuanzang speaks of a lion capital atop the pillar, now lost. A base of a Pillar of Ashoka has been discovered at Gotihawa, a few miles from Nigali Sagar, and it has been suggested that it is the original base of the Nigalar Sagar pillar fragments. [11] In 249 BCE, Emperor Asoka founded Lalitapatan city of Nepal. [12] [13]
[189] [190] Nepal has consistently been ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. [191] [192] [193] Nepal has been a member of WTO since 23 April 2004. [194] The 16.8-million-worker Nepali labour force is the 37th largest in the world. [195] The primary sector makes up 27.59% of GDP, the secondary sector 14.6%, and the tertiary ...
The decolonisation of Asia was the gradual growth of independence movements in Asia, leading ultimately to the retreat of foreign powers and the creation of several nation-states in the region. Background
Before the expansion of early modern European powers, other empires had conquered and colonized territories, such as the Roman Empire in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Modern colonial empires first emerged with a race of exploration between the then most advanced European maritime powers, Portugal and Spain , during the 15th century. [ 2 ]
The total area of the French colonial empire, with the first (mainly in the Americas and Asia) and second (mainly in Africa and Asia), the French colonial empires combined, reached 24,000,000 km 2 (9,300,000 sq mi), the second largest in the world (the first being the British Empire).
In the 19th century, the Second Industrial Revolution led to what has been termed the era of New Imperialism, when the pace of colonization rapidly accelerated, the height of which was the Scramble for Africa, in which Belgium, Germany, and Italy were also participants.