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The British and French colonial empires reached their peaks after World War I. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, funding the war had a severe economic cost. From being the world's largest overseas investor, it became one of its biggest debtors with interest payments forming around 40% of all government spending.
The empire collapsed in 1901 when the French deposed the last askia. Far to the east, on Lake Chad, the state of Kanem-Bornu, founded as Kanem in the 9th century, now rose to greater preeminence in the central Sahel region. To their west, the loosely united Hausa city-states became dominant. These two states coexisted uneasily, but were quite ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
The collapse of the Principality of Albania, sometimes described as a civil war, [1] [2] was the period of violent political fragmentation within the country that began in early 1914. An independent, but deeply unstable Albanian state had been established in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and was set to transition to a monarchy as a result of ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
King Otto was deposed by legislation in 1913, and succeeded by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig.; King Ludwig III went into exile when the German Empire collapsed in 1918, but did not abdicate; Bavaria was incorporated into the new German Republic in 1919.
This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa. It encompasses pre-colonial wars, colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major ...
Western European colonial empires in Asia and Africa all collapsed in the years after 1945 Four nations (India, Pakistan, Dominion of Ceylon, and Union of Burma) that gained independence in 1947 and 1948. Japan expanded its occupation of Chinese territory during the 1930s, and occupied Southeast Asia during World War II.