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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" (Xhosa pronunciation: [ŋkʼɔsi sikʼɛlɛl‿iafrikʼa], lit. ' Lord Bless Africa ') is a Christian hymn composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg.
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 ...
While a national anthem or gukka (lit. ' country song ') is an official symbol of the state, aegukka refers to any song, official or unofficial, that contains patriotic fervor towards its country, such as Hungary's "Szózat" or the U.S. "The Stars and Stripes Forever". However, the nationally designated "Aegukka" plays the role of symbolizing ...
FIFA limits anthems to 90 seconds so they can get the World Cup games going quickly. But many national songs FIFA's 90-second anthem rules has unintentionally created some of the most emotional ...
"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, [119] when it was formally replaced by "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" as the sole national anthem. [119] The latter served as a sort of de facto co-national anthem alongside the former until 1938. [119]
The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" [a] is the national anthem of Russia.It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem. [3]