Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
1990 (yellow side of green stars removed, but old design seldom use today) Greece: 1978: 1822 (naval ensign) [note 1] 1978 (land flag abolished) Saint Lucia: 1979: 1967: 2002 Marshall Islands: 1979: 1979: 1979 Kiribati: 1979: 1979: 1979 Equatorial Guinea: 1979: 1972: 1979 (re-adoption of coat of arms due to the collapse of Francisco Nguema regime)
The king of Chaldea was also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia and Assyria were regularly styled simply king of Babylon or Assur, the capital city in each case. In the same way, what is now known as the Persian Gulf was sometimes called "the Sea of Bit Yakin", and sometimes "the Sea of the Land of Chaldea".
According to the Collins English Dictionary, a national flag is "a flag that represents or is an emblem of a country." [1] The word country can be used to refer to a sovereign state, sometimes also called an independent state. [2] It is customary in international law that states adopt a flag to distinguish themselves from other states. [3]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Country Before 1900 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Current Country Republic of Abkhazia: 1866: 1921 1931 1935 1937 1938 1951 1992 Republic of Abkhazia: Kosovo: 1999 2008 Kosovo: Northern Cyprus: 1984 Northern Cyprus: Puntland: 2009 Puntland: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: 1976 Sahrawi Arab ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation.