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The Tibetan independence movement (Tibetan: བོད་རང་བཙན Bod rang btsan; simplified Chinese: 西藏独立运动; traditional Chinese: 西藏獨立運動) is the political movement advocating for the reversal of the 1950 annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, and the separation and independence of Greater Tibet ...
The list shows large groupings associated with the dates of independence from decolonization (e.g., 41 current states gained control of sovereignty from the United Kingdom and France between 1956 and 1966) or dissolution of a political union (e.g., 18 current states gained control of sovereignty from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia between 1990 ...
Despite the presence of twenty thousand PLA troops in Central Tibet, the Dalai Lama's government was permitted to maintain important symbols from its de facto independence period. [15] The first national census in all of the People's Republic of China was held in 1954, counting 2,770,000 ethnic Tibetans in China, including 1,270,000 in the ...
[15] [16] Tibet and Outer Mongolia signed a disputed treaty proclaiming mutual recognition of their independence from China. [ 17 ] After the 13th Dalai Lama's death in 1933, a condolence mission sent to Lhasa by the Kuomintang -ruled Nationalist government to start negotiations about Tibet's status was allowed to open an office and remain ...
Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival (1999) PublicAffairs . ISBN 978-1-891620-18-8; Laird, Thomas. The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (2006) Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1827-5; Lin, Hsiao-ting (2011). Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49. UBC Press.
Central America Nicaragua: Independence restored after the dissolution of the Greater Republic of Central America, initial independence in 1838. January 1, 1901 United Kingdom Australia: Britain continued to exercise some level of control until the Statute of Westminster. In personal union with the UK and many other countries. May 20, 1902
Latin American wars of independence ... Mexico: De facto independence of the Maya state in 1849; ... de facto independence of Tibet from China:
While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the creation of Tibetan script in the 7th century. . Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung (c. 500 BCE – 625 CE) as the precursor of later Tibetan kingdoms and the originators of the Bon re