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Below are lists of the countries and territories that were formerly ruled or administered by the United Kingdom or part of the British Empire (including military occupations that did not retain the pre-war central government), with their independence days.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) [a] is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [4]
Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, [1] province, [2] [3] [4] jurisdiction [5] or region [6] [7]).
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the union of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into one sovereign state, established by the Acts of Union in 1801. [4]
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M. N. Roy, Indian nationalist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh Deng Xiaoping Chiang Ching-kuo, President of Taiwan, 1978–1988. In September 1920, the Comintern held an International Conference of Asian Nations in Baku.
A neighborhood in the Kozhukhovsky Bay of the Moskva River with a large sign promoting the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, 1975. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), [g] at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political ...
Resulted in: End of most communist states. End of the Cold War; Spread of liberal democracy; End of the Soviet Union as a superpower and its dissolution on 26 December 1991; Collapse of the one-party state regimes, democratic centralism, planned economy