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  2. History of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    Taking up of the Louisiana by La Salle in the name of the Kingdom of France New France at its greatest extent in 1710. Present-day Canada. New France (1534–1763) Present-day United States. The Fort Saint Louis (1685–1689) Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (1650–1733) Fort Caroline in French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565)

  4. France–Nepal relations - Wikipedia

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    FranceNepal relations are diplomatic relations between France and Nepal. [1] FranceNepal 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 ...

  5. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    British America (New Britain) . Canada. Island of St. John; Rupert's Land (A private estate stretching from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and from the prairies to the Arctic Circle.

  6. France [1] Libya: 1911 Italy [2] Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3] Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 United Kingdom: Burundi: 1893 Germany [4] Nri Kingdom: 1911 United Kingdom: Kingdom of Benin: 1897 United Kingdom: Bunyoro: 1899 United Kingdom: Dahomey: 1894 France: Rwanda: 1894 Germany [5] Oubangui ...

  7. List of wars involving Nepal - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Nepal East India Company Garhwal Kingdom Patiala State Kingdom of Sikkim. Defeat. Third Nepal-Tibet War (1855–1856) [7] Kingdom of Nepal: Tibet under Qing rule: Victory. World War I (1914–1918) France United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa; Russia Italy United States Serbia Montenegro Belgium Japan Romania

  8. Nepal - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  9. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but have since been quickly absorbed into the Afrikaner population. After Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, it became the capital of New France. Encouraging settlement was difficult, and while some immigration did occur, by 1763 New France only had a population of some 65,000.