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Country Former national anthem Adopted Current national anthem Date replaced Note South Korea: Aegukga: 1919 Aegukga: 1948 Both national anthems used to be sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. Maldives: Qaumee Salaam: 1948 Qaumee Salaam: 1972 Yugoslavia: Hej, Slaveni: 1945 Hej, Slaveni: 1992 The same current anthem of Poland. Serbia and ...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" was used as the national anthem of Namibia at time of the country's independence in March 1990, but replaced in 1991 by "Namibia, Land of the Brave". Other countries and organisations
The current South African national anthem is unique in that five of the country's eleven official languages are used in the same anthem (the first stanza is divided between two languages, with each of the remaining three stanzas in a different language). It was created by combining two songs together and then modifying the lyrics and adding new ...
National anthem of Guatemala; National Anthem of Honduras; National anthem of Iraq; National anthem of Mauritania; National anthem of Mauritania (1960–2017) National Anthem of Peru; National anthem of Qatar (1954–1996) National anthem of Russia; National anthem of Slovenia; National anthem of Somalia (1960–2000) National anthem of ...
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Country singer Ingrid Andress has gone viral for her widely panned performance of the national anthem at the 2024 MLB Home Run Derby at the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. On Monday night ...
"God Save the King" (Afrikaans: God Red die Koning, God Red die Koningin when a Queen) was a co-national anthem of South Africa from 1938 until 1957, [118] when it was formally replaced by "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" as the sole national anthem. [118] The latter served as a sort of de facto co-national anthem alongside the former until 1938. [118]