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		<title>a letter of Iranian students  to Egyptian revolutionaries</title>
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Zealous and noble nation of Egypt!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><em>Indeed, those who have  said, “Our Lord is Allah,” and then remained on a right course – there  will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve. “Holy Quran,  Surat Al-Ahqaf, Ayah 13”</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Zealous and noble nation of Egypt!</p>
<p dir="ltr">At the first step of your  revolution for restoration of your violated rights and revival of your  Islamic dignity and honor that had been ignored by pro-arrogance puppet  governments you solidly resisted and put an end to the rule of “Egypt’s  Pharaoh”. Now, vehement capture of Israeli den of espionage in Egypt  revealed once more that the objective of Egypt Revolution has been, and  still is, nothing but to gain dignity, honor, and liberality. Your  “second revolution” occurred when United States and its allies were  seeking to derail the revolution and confiscate emancipation movement of  Egyptians by their constant interferences. If the hands of foreigners  and specially criminal United States don’t be cut at the very beginning  of people movements and conservatives and compromisers set the scene for  their presence and interference in internal affairs, justice-seeking  and idealistic revolutions, for sure, will fail to achieve their goals; a  fact that you intelligently recognized and God willing will continue  with proceedings like “abolishing disgraceful Camp David Accord”.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Today, those who has not heard  genuine call of your glorious revolution are striving to change the  direction of censures toward “heroes of Egypt nation” by introducing  issues like violation of international regulations, while international  regulations are respectable as far as they secure nations’ rights and  their comprehensive freedom and independence, but when these very same  rules pave the way for concurrent interference of World Arrogance and  they create den of espionage for permutation of people revolutions,  silence and commitment to them is not permissible.</p>
<p dir="ltr">At the end, we Iranian Muslim  students, offering our congratulations for this courageous movement once  more, declare our full support for it and hope that Egypt’s military  council shows more sodality with Egyptian revolutionary people through  releasing arrested zealous youths.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Students’ Justice-Seeking Movement</p>
<p dir="ltr">Union of Independent Students’ Islamic Associations</p>
<p dir="ltr">Union of Students’ Islamic Society</p>
<p dir="ltr">Office for Fostering Unity</p>
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		<title>Egyptians storm Israeli embassy</title>
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Egyptian protesters  have stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo, destroying a part of a  barricade wall around the building in the process, and one demonstrator  has died, Press TV reports.
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<div>Egyptian protesters  have stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo, destroying a part of a  barricade wall around the building in the process, and one demonstrator  has died, <strong>Press TV</strong> reports.</div>
<p>Egyptian police used tear gas to disperse the crowd, the Press TV correspondent in Cairo reported on Friday.</p>
<p>One person died due to asphyxiation after inhaling tear gas, and about 450 demonstrators were injured, medical personnel said.</p>
<p>The demonstrators threw documents out the windows of the embassy building and also torched a police car.</p>
<p>The crowd managed to break into the embassy building despite the presence of heavily armed Egyptian security forces in the area.</p>
<p>Gunfire was also heard near the embassy.</p>
<p>A protester tore down the Israeli flag at the embassy, to the cheers of thousands of demonstrators on the scene.</p>
<p>Last month, another Egyptian protester became a national hero after  he climbed up the wall of the Israeli embassy, took down the Israeli  flag, and hoisted an Egyptian flag in its place during a demonstration  held to condemn Israel for killing a number of Egyptian policemen on the  border.</p>
<p>Five Egyptian border police officers were killed on August 18 in an attack by Israeli forces.</p>
<p>On Friday, the Egyptian demonstrators also called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and chanted anti-Israeli slogans.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Egyptians once again gathered at the  iconic Liberation Square in Cairo to demand that the military  government hand over power to a civilian administration. The protesters  gathered in the square after Friday prayers to participate in the  &#8220;Correcting the Path&#8221; demonstration.</p>
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		<title>Supreme Leader Leads Tehran Friday Prayers (video-english subtitle)</title>
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		<title>Supreme Leader&#8217;s Message to Hajj Pilgrims</title>
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All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all sentient beings, and greetings be upon our Master, Muhammad Al-Mustafa, and upon his immaculate household and select companions.

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<p>In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful</p>
<p>All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all sentient beings, and greetings be upon our Master, Muhammad Al-Mustafa, and upon his immaculate household and select companions.</p>
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<p>The Ka’bah, the secret behind unity and dignity and the symbol of monotheism and spirituality, is host to enthusiastic and hopeful hearts in the hajj season who have responded to and accepted the call of Allah the Exalted and have rushed towards the birthplace of Islam. The Islamic Ummah can now see a condensed picture of its vastness and variety and the depth of religious faith that rules the hearts of this righteous religion with the eyes of its representatives who have gathered here from the four corners of the world. Now the Islamic Ummah can appropriately understand this great and unique asset.</p>
<p>This re-acquaintance with ourselves helps us Muslims to realize the position we deserve in today’s and tomorrow’s world and helps us move towards it.</p>
<p>The spread of the wave of Islamic Awakening in today’s world is a fact that promises a good future for the Islamic Ummah. Since three decades ago when this powerful movement started with the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, our great Ummah has moved forward steadily, removed obstacles from its path and conquered certain strongholds. The increased complexity of the methods through which the arrogant powers show their enmity and the costly efforts that they make to oppose Islam are also due to these advances. The widespread propaganda of the enemy to promote fear of Islam, the hasty efforts that it makes to foment discord among Islamic sects and provoke sectarian prejudice, its efforts to make Shia and Sunni appear to be enemies of each other, fomenting discord among Muslim governments, making efforts to exacerbate disagreements and turn them into irremediable enmities and disputes, using intelligence and espionage organizations in order to promote corruption and prostitution among the youth – these are all frantic and confused reactions to the steady movement and firm progress of the Islamic Ummah towards awakening, dignity and liberation.</p>
<p>Unlike 30 years ago, today the Zionist regime is no longer an invincible monster. Unlike two decades ago, America and the west are not unquestionable decision-makers in the Middle East. Unlike 10 years ago, nuclear technology and other complex technologies are not considered unattainable and fantastical for the Muslim nations of the region. Today the Palestinian nation is the champion of resistance. The Lebanese nation broke the phony awe of the Zionist regime on its own and won the 33-day war. And the Iranian nation is the standard-bearer and vanguard of the movement which is moving towards the peaks.</p>
<p>Today arrogant America – the self-installed commander of the Islamic region and the main supporter of the Zionist regime – is caught up in a quagmire in Afghanistan, a quagmire which was created by America itself. It is being isolated in Iraq because of all the crimes that it has committed against the people of that country. It is hated more than ever before in tragedy-stricken Pakistan. Today the anti-Islam camp, which oppressively ruled Muslim governments and peoples for two centuries and plundered their resources, is now witness to its decline and to the valorous resistance of Muslim peoples.</p>
<p>Conversely, the Islamic Awakening is spreading and deepening on a daily basis.</p>
<p>This promising situation which bears good news should on the one hand, push us Muslim nations towards a favorable future more steadily than before and on the other hand, teach us to maintain our vigilance more than ever before. This public call undoubtedly makes religious scholars, political leaders, intellectuals and youth more committed than others and demands selfless efforts and a pioneering role from them.</p>
<p>The Holy Quran addresses us in a resonating and dynamic manner, “You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men. You enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah.” [Sura Al-e Imran, ayah 110] According to this dignified ayah, the Islamic Ummah is created for humanity. The purpose behind the creation of this Ummah is to save and benefit humanity.</p>
<p>And the great duty is counseling people to do good, advising them against evil and having firm faith in God. No good deed is better than delivering nations from the evil claws of the arrogant powers, and no evil is more unacceptable than dependence on the arrogant powers and serving them. Helping the Palestinian nation and the besieged people of Gaza, sympathy toward and cooperation with the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Kashmir, selfless efforts and resistance against the aggression of America and the Zionist regime, safeguarding the unity of Muslims, fighting evil hands and mercenary tongues that undermine this unity, and spreading awakening and sense of commitment and responsibility among Muslim youth in all Islamic lands – these are great responsibilities that currently lie on the shoulders of prominent figures of the Islamic Ummah.</p>
<p>The magnificent hajj ceremony shows us the appropriate grounds for fulfilling these responsibilities and it calls us to intensified effort and labor.</p>
<p>Wa salaam alaykum wa rahmat Allah</p>
<p>Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei</p>
<p>Dhul-Hijjah1, 1431</p>
<p>Aban 17, 1389</p>
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		<title>president Ahmadinejad of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly UN</title>
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&#8220;All  praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, and peace and blessing be  upon our Master and Prophet, Mohammad, and his pure Household, and his  noble Companions and on all divine messengers&#8221;
 
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<p>In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful</p>
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<p><em>&#8220;All  praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, and peace and blessing be  upon our Master and Prophet, Mohammad, and his pure Household, and his  noble Companions and on all divine messengers&#8221;</em></p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Oh,  God, hasten the arrival of Imam Al- Mahdi and grant him good health and  victory and make us his followers and those who attest to his  rightfulness&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. President,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Excellencies,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ladies and Gentlemen,</strong></p>
<p>I  am grateful to the Almighty God who granted me the opportunity to  appear before this world assembly once again. I wish to begin by  commemorating those who lost their lives in the horrible flood in Pakistan and express my heartfelt sympathy with the families who lost their loved ones as well as with the people and the government of Pakistan. I urge everyone to assist their fellow men and women as a humane duty.</p>
<p>Let  me thank H.E. Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, the President of the he  sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, for all his  efforts during his tenure. I also would like to congratulate H.E. Mr.  Joseph Deiss, the President of the sixty-fifth session of the United  Nations General Assembly and wish him all success.</p>
<p>In  the past years, I spoke to you about some of the hopes and concerns,  including family crises, security, human dignity, world economy, climate  change as well as the aspiration for justice and lasting peace.</p>
<p>After  about one hundred years of domination, the system of Capitalism and the  existing world order has proved to be unable to provide appropriate  solution to the problems of societies, thus coming to an end. I shall  try to examine the two main causes of this failure and picture some  features of the ideal future order.</p>
<p><strong>A) Attitudes and Beliefs</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>As  you are well aware, the divine prophets had the mission to call  everyone to monotheism, love and justice and show mankind the path to  prosperity. They invite men to contemplation and knowledge in order to  better appreciate the truth and to avoid atheism and egoism. The very  nature of the message of all prophets is one and the same. Every  messenger endorsed the messenger before him and gave glad tidings about  the prophet to come, and presented a more complete version of the  religion in accordance with the capacity of the man at the time. This  continued up to the last messenger of God who presented the perfect and  all inclusive religion.</p>
<p>In opposition to that, the egotist and the greedy stood up against this clear call, revolting against the message.</p>
<p>Nimrod  countered Hazrat Abraham, Pharaoh countered Hazrat Moses and the greedy  countered Hazrat Jesus Christ and Hazrat Mohammad (Peace be upon them  all). In the recent centuries, the human ethics and values have been  rejected as a cause for backwardness. They were even portrayed as  opposing wisdom and science because of the earlier infliction on man by  the proclaimers of religion in the dark ages of the West</p>
<p>Man&#8217;s disconnection from Heaven detached him from his true self.</p>
<p>Man  with his potentials for understanding the secrets of the universe, his  instinct for seeking truth, his aspirations for justice and perfection,  his quest for beauty and purity and his capacity to represent God on  earth was reduced to a creature limited to the materialistic world with a  mission to maximize individualistic pleasures. Human instinct, then,  replaced true human nature.</p>
<p>Human  beings and nations were considered rivals and the happiness of an  individual or a nation was defined in collision with, and elimination or  suppression of others. Constructive evolutionary cooperation was  replaced with a destructive struggle for survival.</p>
<p>The lust for capital and domination replaced monotheism which is the gate to love and unity.</p>
<p>This  widespread clash of the egoist with the divine values gave way to  slavery and colonialism. A large portion of the world came under the  domination of a few western States. Tens of millions of people were  taken to slavery and tens of millions of families were shattered as a  result. All the resources, the rights and the cultures of the colonized  nations were plundered. Lands were occupied and the indigenous people  were humiliated and mass- murdered.</p>
<p>Yet,  nations rose up, colonialism was alienated and the independence of the  nations was recognized. Thus, the hope for respect, prosperity and  security was revived amongst nations. In the beginning of the past  century nice talks about freedom, human rights and democracy created  hopes for healing the deep wounds of the past. Today, however, not only  those dreams are not realized, but memories, even at times worse than  before, have been recorded.</p>
<p>As a result of the two World Wars, the occupation of Palestine, the Korean and the Vietnam&#8217;s Wars, the Iraqi war against Iran, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq as well as many wars in Africa, hundreds of millions of people were killed, wounded or displaced.</p>
<p>Terrorism,  illicit drugs, poverty and the social gaps increased. The dictatorial  and coup d&#8217;état governments in Latin America committed unprecedented  crimes with the support of the West.</p>
<p>Instead  of disarmament, the proliferation and stockpiling of nuclear,  biological and chemical weapons expanded, putting the world under a  bigger threat. As a result, the very same old goals of colonialists and  the slave masters were, this time round, pursued with a new façade.</p>
<p><strong>B) The Global Management and Ruling Structures</strong></p>
<p>The League of Nations  and, then, the United Nations were established with the promise to  bring about peace, security and the realization of human rights, which  in fact meant a global management.</p>
<p>One can analyze the current governance of the world by examining three events:</p>
<p>First, the event of the 11 September 2001 which had affect the whole world for almost a decade.</p>
<p>All of a sudden, the news of the attack on the twin towers was broadcast using numerous footages of the incident.</p>
<p>Almost all governments and known figures strongly condemned this incident.</p>
<p>But  then a propaganda machine came into full force; it was implied that the  whole world was exposed to a huge danger, namely terrorism, and that  the only way to save the world would be to deploy forces into Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Eventually Afghanistan, and shortly thereafter Iraq were occupied.</p>
<p><em>Please take note: </em></p>
<p>It  was said that some three thousand people were killed on the 11  September for which we are all very saddened. Yet, up until now, in Afghanistan and Iraq  hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions wounded and  displaced and the conflict is still going on and expanding.</p>
<p>In identifying those responsible for the attack, there were three viewpoints.</p>
<p>1-  That a very powerful and complex terrorist group, able to successfully  cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out  the attack.</p>
<p>This is the main viewpoint advocated by American statesmen.</p>
<p>2-  That some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack  to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle  East in order also to save the Zionist regime.</p>
<p>The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view.</p>
<p>3-  It was carried out by a terrorist group but the American government  supported and took advantage of the situation. Apparently, this  viewpoint has fewer proponents.</p>
<p>The  main evidence linking the incident was a few passports found in the  huge volume of rubble and a video of an individual whose place of  domicile was unknown but it was announced that he had been involved in  oil deals with some American officials. It was also covered up and said  that due to the explosion and fire no trace of the suicide attackers was  found.</p>
<p><em>There remain, however, a few questions to be answered:</em></p>
<p>1-  Would it not have been sensible that first a thorough investigation  should have been conducted by independent groups to conclusively  identify the elements involved in the attack and then map out a rational  plan to take measures against them?</p>
<p>2-  Assuming the viewpoint of the American government, is it rational to  launch a classic war through widespread deployment of troops that led to  the death of hundreds of thousands of people to counter a terrorist  group?</p>
<p>3- Was it not possible to act the way Iran countered the Riggi terrorist group who killed and wounded 400 innocent people in Iran. In the Iranian operation no innocent person was hurt.</p>
<p>It  is proposed that the United Nations set up an independent fact-finding  group for the event of the 11 September so that in the future expressing  views about it is not forbidden.</p>
<p>I  wish to announce here that next year the Islamic Republic of Iran will  host a conference to study terrorism and the means to confront it. I  invite officials, scholars, thinkers, researchers and research  institutes of all countries to attend this conference.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Second, is the occupation of the Palestinian Territories?</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p>The oppressed people of Palestine  have lived under the rule of an occupying regime for 60 years, been  deprived of freedom, security and the right to self-determination, while  the occupiers are given recognition. On a daily basis, the houses are  being destroyed over the heads of innocent women and children. People  are deprived of water, food and medicine in their own homeland. The  Zionists have imposed five all-out wars on the neighboring countries and  on the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>The Zionists committed the most horrible crimes against the defenseless people in the wars against Lebanon and Gaza.</p>
<p>The Zionist regime attacked a humanitarian flotilla in a blatant defiance of all international norms and kills the civilians.</p>
<p>This  regime which enjoys the absolute support of some western countries  regularly threatens the countries in the region and continues publicly  announced assassination of Palestinian figures and others, while  Palestinian defenders and those opposing this regime are pressured,  labeled as terrorists and anti Semites. All values, even the freedom of  expression, in Europe and in the United States are being sacrificed at the altar of Zionism.</p>
<p>Solutions are doomed to fail because the right of the Palestinian people is not taken into account.</p>
<p>Would  we have witnessed such horrendous crimes if instead of recognizing the  occupation, the sovereign right of the Palestinian people had been  recognized?</p>
<p>Our  unambiguous proposition is the return of the Palestinian refugees to  their home land and the reference to the vote of the people of Palestine to exercise their sovereignty and decide on the type of governance.</p>
<p><strong>Third, is the nuclear energy </strong></p>
<p>Nuclear  energy is clean and cheap and a heavenly gift which is amongst the most  suitable alternatives to cut the pollutions emanating from fossil  fuels.</p>
<p>The  Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) allows all member States to use nuclear  energy without limits and the International Atomic Energy Agency is  mandated to provide member States with technical and legal support.</p>
<p>The  nuclear bomb is the worst inhumane weapon and which must totally be  eliminated. The NPT prohibits its development and stockpiling and calls  for nuclear disarmament.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, note what some of the permanent members of the Security Council and nuclear bomb holders have done:</p>
<p>They  have equated nuclear energy with the nuclear bomb, and have distanced  this energy from the reach of most of nations by establishing monopolies  and pressuring the IAEA. While at the same time, they have continued to  maintain, expand and upgrade their own nuclear arsenals.</p>
<p>This has entailed the following:</p>
<p>Not  only the nuclear disarmament has not been realized but also nuclear  bombs have been proliferated in some regions, including by the occupying  and intimidating Zionist regime.</p>
<p>I  would like here to propose that the year 2011 be proclaimed the year of  nuclear disarmament and &#8220;Nuclear Energy for all, Nuclear Weapons for  None&#8221;.</p>
<p>In  all these cases the United Nations has been unable to take any  effective course of action. Unfortunately, in the decade proclaimed as  the &#8220;International Decade for the Culture of Peace&#8221; hundreds of  thousands were killed and injured as a result of war, aggression and  occupation, and hostilities and antagonism increased.</p>
<p><strong>Ladies and Gentlemen,</strong></p>
<p>Very recently the world witnessed the ugly and inhumane act of burning the Holy Quran.</p>
<p>The  Holy Quran is the Divine Book and the eternal miracle of the Prophet of  Islam. It calls for worshipping the One God, justice, compassion toward  people, development and progress, reflection and thinking, defending  the oppressed and resisting against the oppressors; and it names with  respect the previous Messengers of God, like Noah,  Abraham,  Isaaq, Joseph, Moses and Jesus Christ (Peace be Upon them all) and  endorses them.. They burned Quran to burn all these truths and good  judgments. However, the truth could not be burned. Quran is eternal  because God and truth are everlasting. This act and any other act which  widens the gap and distances between nations is evil. We should wisely  avoid playing into the hands of Satan. On behalf of the Iranian nation I  pay respect to all Divine Books and their followers. This is the Quran  and this is the Bible. I pay respect to both of them.</p>
<p><strong>Esteemed Friends</strong>,</p>
<p>For  years the inefficiency of the capitalism and the existing world  management and structures has been exposed and the majority of States  and nations have been on a quest for fundamental changes and for the  prevalence of justice in global relations.</p>
<p>The  cause of the United Nation&#8217;s ineptitude is in its unjust structure.  Major power is monopolized in the Security Council due to the veto  privilege, and the main pillar of the Organization, namely the General  Assembly, is marginalized.</p>
<p>In  the past several decades, at least one of the permanent members of the  Security Council has always been a party to the disputes.</p>
<p>The  veto advantage grants impunity to aggression and occupation; How could,  therefore, one expect competence while both the judge and the  prosecutor are a party to the dispute?</p>
<p>Had Iran  enjoyed veto privilege, would the Security Council and the IAEA  Director General have taken the same position in the nuclear issue?</p>
<p><strong>Dear Friends,</strong></p>
<p>The  United Nations is the key center for coordinating the common global  management. Its structure needs to be reformed in a manner that all  independent States and nations be able to participate in the global  governance actively and constructively.</p>
<p>The  veto privilege should be revoked and the General Assembly should be the  highest body and the Secretary-General should be the most independent  official and all his positions and activities should be taken with the  approval of the General Assembly and should be directed towards  promoting justice and eliminating discrimination.</p>
<p>The  Secretary-General should not come under pressure from powers and/or the  country hosting the Organization for his stating the truth and  administration of justice.</p>
<p>It  is suggested that the General Assembly should, within one year and in  the framework of an extraordinary session, finalize the reformation of  the Organization&#8217;s structure</p>
<p>The  Islamic Republic of Iran has clear suggestions in this regard and  stands ready to participate actively and constructively in the process.</p>
<p><strong>Ladies and Gentlemen, </strong></p>
<p>I announce clearly that the occupation of other countries under the pretext of freedom and democracy is an unforgivable crime.</p>
<p>The  world needs the logic of compassion and justice and inclusive  participation instead of logic of force, domination, unilateralism, war  and intimidation.</p>
<p>The world needs to be governed by virtuous people like the Divine Prophets.</p>
<p>The two vast geographical spheres, namely Africa and Latin America,  have gone through historic developments during the past decades. The  new approaches in these two continents, which are based on increasing  level of integration and unity as well as on localizing the growth and  development models, have born considerable fruits to the peoples of  those regions. The awareness and wisdom of the leaders of these two  continents has overcome the regional problems and crises without the  domineering interference of non-regional powers.</p>
<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran has expanded its relations with the Latin America and Africa in all aspects in recent years.</p>
<p><em>And about the glorious Iran,</em></p>
<p>The  Tehran Declaration was a hugely constructive step in confidence  building efforts which was made possible through the admirable good will  by the governments of Brazil and Turkey  along with the sincere cooperation of the Iranian government. Although  the Declaration received inappropriate reaction by some and was followed  by an unlawful resolution, it is still valid.</p>
<p>We  have observed the regulations of the IAEA more than our commitments,  yet, we have never submitted to illegally imposed pressures nor will we  ever do so.</p>
<p>It has been said that they want to pressure Iran into a dialogue. Well, firstly, Iran  has always been ready for a dialogue based on respect and justice.  Secondly, methods based on disrespecting nations have long become  ineffective. Those who have used intimidation and sanctions in response  to the clear logic of the Iranian nation are in real terms destroying  the remaining credibility of the Security Council and the trust of  nations for this body, proving once and again how unjust is the function  of the Council.</p>
<p>When they threaten a great nation such as Iran  which is known throughout history for its scientists, poets, artists  and philosophers and whose culture and civilization is synonymous to  purity, submission to God and seeking justice, how can they ever expect  that other nations grow confidence on them?</p>
<p>It  goes without saying that domineering methods in managing the world has  failed. Not only has the era of slavery and colonialism and dominating  the world passed, the path to the reviving old Empires are blocked, too.</p>
<p>We  have announced that we stand ready for a serious and free debate with  the American Statesmen to express our transparent views on issues of  importance to the world in this very venue.</p>
<p>It  is proposed here that in order to have a constructive dialogue, an  annual free debate be organized within the General Assembly.</p>
<p><em> In conclusion, </em></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Friends and Colleagues,</strong></p>
<p>The  Iranian nation and the majority of the world’s nations and governments  are against the current discriminatory management of the world.</p>
<p>The inhumane nature of this management has put it at a dead-end and requires a major overhaul.</p>
<p>Reforming  the world’s affairs and bringing about tranquility and prosperity  requires the participation of all, pure thoughts and the divine and  humane management.</p>
<p><em>We are all of the idea that:</em></p>
<p><em>J</em>ustice  is the basic element for peace, durable security and the spread of love  among peoples and nations. It is in the justice that mankind seeks the  realization of his aspirations, rights and dignity, since he is wary of  oppression, humiliation and ill treatment.</p>
<p>The  true nature of mankind is manifested in the love for other fellow  humans and love for all the good in the world. Love is the best  foundation for establishing relation amongst people and amongst nations.</p>
<p>As Vahshi Bafqi, the great Iranian poet, says</p>
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&#8220;Without a doubt, the leaders of the  global arrogance engineered [this plot] and [were in charge of] the  command room of these atrocities,&#8221; the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei added that &#8220;Zionist think-tanks which hold the  most influence on the US government and its security and military  organizations&#8221; were among the accomplices in [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Without a doubt, the leaders of the  global arrogance engineered [this plot] and [were in charge of] the  command room of these atrocities,&#8221; the Leader said.</p>
<p>Ayatollah Khamenei added that &#8220;Zionist think-tanks which hold the  most influence on the US government and its security and military  organizations&#8221; were among the accomplices in the scenario.</p>
<p>&#8220;This incident and previous incidents clearly show that what the  global arrogance is attacking today is the foundation of Islam and the  Holy Quran,&#8221; Ayatollah Khamenei said.</p>
<p>The Leader said that the enemies&#8217; main objective behind this  abominable act was to drag their fight with Islam and Muslims to all  levels of the Christian society and to give it a religious pretext by  bringing the Church into play.</p>
<p>&#8220;We must all realize that this recent incident is not related to the  Church and Christianity and the puppet actions of a few foolish and  mercenary priests must not be attributed to Christians and their  clergy,&#8221; Ayatollah Khamenei said.</p>
<p>The Leader said Muslims would not adopt similar measures against the religious sanctities of other faiths.</p>
<p>&#8220;All Muslims hold the US government and their politicians  accountable. If the US government is sincere in its claims of not having  been involved in this incident, it must mete out a befitting punishment  to the main perpetrators of this serious crime… who have hurt the  sentiments of 1.5 billion Muslims,&#8221; the Leader said.</p>
<p>After a Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Quran burning  plans in the face of fierce international condemnation, anti-Islam  protesters in the US burned copies of the holy book on the ninth  anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Saturday.</p>
<p>Two evangelical preachers in Tennessee also set copies of the Quran on fire and members of the group <em>Operation Rescue</em> tore pages from the holy book of Islam.</p>
<p>The police did not try to stop any of these incidents.</p>
<p>In another incident a group of protesters tore some pages of a copy of the Quran in front of the White House.</p>
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Below is a list of countries in chronological order of their statehood.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process. It is therefore practically impossible to come up with a single date for a nation&#8217;s &#8220;birth&#8221; in most cases. However, most nations have accepted some dates in their respective histories as their symbolic starting points. This is usually [...]]]></description>
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<p>Below is a <strong>list of <a title="Countries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries">countries</a> in chronological order of their <a title="Sovereign state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state">statehood</a></strong>.</p>
<p><a title="Nation-building" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation-building">Nation-building</a> is a long evolutionary process. It is therefore practically impossible to come up with a single date for a nation&#8217;s &#8220;birth&#8221; in most cases. However, most nations have accepted some dates in their respective histories as their symbolic starting points. This is usually done more for <a title="Nationalistic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalistic">nationalistic</a> propaganda than for scientific reasons. For many ancient and <a title="Medieval" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval">medieval</a> nations these starting points are usually the dates when a nation was mentioned in a written document for the first time or simply a date from their national <a title="Mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology">mythology</a>. In Europe, this often coincides with the ruler&#8217;s conversion to <a title="Christianity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christianity</a>. For post-colonial nations, starting with the United States, the beginning of statehood is usually considered to be the date when <a title="Independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence">independence</a> was declared, granted or recognised.<br />
The situation is further complicated by the confusion between the terms <a title="Nation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation">nation</a> (generally considered an ethnic or cultural grouping) and <a title="Sovereign state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state">state</a> (an independent political entity). (These two words are commonly used as synonyms.)</p>
<h2>Historical kingdoms<br />
and dynasties</h2>
<p>&#8212;</p>
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<td width="11%" valign="top"><strong>Date</strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_statehood"><strong> </strong></a><strong> </strong></td>
<td width="11%" valign="top"><strong>Nation</strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_statehood"><strong> </strong></a><strong> </strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Event</strong><strong> </strong></td>
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<td valign="top">-6799 3200 BC</td>
<td valign="top">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran">Iran</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(<a title="Persia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia">Persia</a>)</p>
</td>
<td valign="top">The first state consisting all of western Iran was founded by the <a title="Proto-Elamite" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Elamite">Proto-Elamite</a> with their capital at <a title="Susa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa">Susa</a> &amp; <a title="Anshan (Persia)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshan_%28Persia%29">Anshan</a> which lasted from around 3200 BC to 2700   BC, they were followed by <a title="Elam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam">Elam</a> (2700 BC-550 BC) and <a title="Median Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_Empire">Medes</a> who created the first Iranian empire, which encompassed all of Iran and   lasted from 728 to 550 BC, <a title="Cyrus The Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_The_Great">Cyrus   The Great</a>, founded <a title="Achaemenid Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire">the world&#8217;s first superstate</a>, stretching from   Greece to India. The last reunification of Iran happened in 1501 AD by the <a title="Safavid dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_dynasty">Safavid   dynasty</a>. Iran was referred to in the <a title="Western world" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world">West</a> as <a title="Persia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia">Persia</a> until March 21, 1935 when it was officially recognized as either Persia or   Iran, where the latter has been the local name. <a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran">Iran</a> has had roughly   the same geographical boundaries since its inception and has been using <a title="Persian language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language">Persian</a> as the official language in addition to <a title="Iranian calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendar">Iranian   calendar</a>.</td>
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<td valign="top">-6899 3100 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt">Egypt</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification of <a title="Ancient Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt">Upper and Lower Egypt</a> into one country by <a title="Pharaoh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a> <a title="Narmer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer">Narmer</a> occurred   in <strong>3100 BC</strong>. Despite subsequent conquests, Egypt has roughly remained a   united nation geographically ever since. Egypt was <a title="Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilateral_Declaration_of_Egyptian_Independence">unilaterally granted</a> nominal independence by the <a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United   Kingdom</a> on <strong>February 28, 1922</strong></td>
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<td valign="top">-7666 2333 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea">Korea</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">references to <a title="Gojoseon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojoseon">Gojoseon</a> founded under the <a title="Altaic peoples" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_peoples">Altaic</a>-<a title="Tungusic peoples" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusic_peoples">Tungusic</a> by <a title="Dangun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangun">Dangun</a> in   historical records from <strong>2333 BC</strong>. The <a title="Korean peninsula" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_peninsula">Korean   peninsula</a> was re-unified in 668 by the <a title="Silla" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silla">Silla</a> kingdom and   was invaded by the Mongols, the Manchus, and the <a title="Russians" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians">Russians</a>. The   <a title="Japanese Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Empire">Japanese   Empire</a> <a title="Korea under Japanese rule" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule">governed</a> Korea from 1910 to the end of   World War II, when the <a title="Allies of World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II">Allies</a> liberated it, but it was   subsequently divided into two republics by the two <a title="Cold War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War">Cold War</a> rivals. The modern <a title="South Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea">Republic of Korea</a> was formed on <strong>August 15, 1948</strong> under <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> administration and the modern <a title="North Korea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea">Democratic   People&#8217;s Republic of Korea</a> was formed on <strong>September 9, 1948</strong> under <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Soviet</a> administration. Although economic and political differences continue to keep   the two countries separate, there is continuing hope that Korea will one day   become a <a title="Korean reunification" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_reunification">united nation</a></td>
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<td valign="top">-7929 2070 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China">China</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">first state founded by the quasi-legendary <a title="Xia Dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xia_Dynasty">Xia   Dynasty</a>, which was allegedly the beginning of Chinese <a title="Hereditary monarchy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_monarchy">hereditary monarchy</a> until <a title="Xinhai Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a> in 1911, after a period of <a title="Neolithic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic">Neolithic</a> cultures, according to historical texts. First archeologically confirmed   state was the <a title="Shang dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang_dynasty">Shang dynasty</a>. The first unified state   incorporating the majority of modern China, was founded under the <a title="Qin dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_dynasty">Qin   dynasty</a> by <a title="Qin Shi Huangdi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huangdi">Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi</a> in <strong>221 BC</strong>. On <strong>1   January 1912</strong>, the <a title="Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China">Republic of China</a> gained independence from the <a title="Manchu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu">Manchu</a>-<a title="Qing Dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_Dynasty">Qing   Dynasty</a>, but was itself forced to retreat to <a title="Taiwan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan">Taiwan</a> and other   islands after its defeat in the <a title="Chinese Civil War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War">Chinese Civil War</a> to the <a title="Communist Party of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China">communists</a> in 1949. The latter   established the <a title="People's Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China">People&#8217;s Republic of China</a> on the <a title="Mainland China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_China">mainland</a> on <strong>1 October 1949</strong>, and both governments continue to lay claim to be   the <a title="Successor state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_state">successor state</a> of all China</td>
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<td valign="top">-8699 1300 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Georgia (country)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28country%29">Georgia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Georgian Kingdom &#8211; <a title="Colchis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis">Colchis</a> was formed as a result of the increasing   consolidation of the tribes inhabiting the Western Georgian Area. <a title="Colchis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis">Colchis</a> is   sometimes mentioned with original Georgian names: კოლხეთი (Kolkheti) and   ეგრისი   (Egrisi) or also with ancient Greek name Κολχίς   (Kolkis). This kingdom is described in <a title="Greek mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology">Greek   mythology</a> as the destination of the <a title="Argonauts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts">Argonauts</a>. <a title="Colchis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis">Colchis</a> is a   homeland of <a title="Golden Fleece" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece">Golden Fleece</a>. The most significant thing is that   the language of Colchians is still alive and widely used among Western   Georgians. The modern <a title="Georgia (country)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28country%29">Georgia</a> declared independence from the <a title="USSR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR">USSR</a> in <strong>April 9,   1991</strong></td>
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<td valign="top">-9141 858 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Armenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia">Armenia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Aramu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramu">Aramu</a>,   first known king of <a title="Urartu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu">Urartu</a>, an ancient Armenian kingdom; <a title="Hurrians" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians">Hurrians</a> present by <a title="2500 BC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2500_BC">2500   BC</a>. Independence from Russia on May 28, 1918</td>
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<td valign="top">-9149 850 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Syria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria">Syria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Assyrian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian">Assyrian</a> Empier begins to raise to power, and expands between 850 and 650 B.C.For more   than two centuries, the Assyrian army</p>
<p>advanced across Southwest Asia. It overwhelmed foes with its highly   advanced military organization and state-of-the-art weaponry.The Assyrians   came from the northern part of <a title="Mesopotamia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>.</td>
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<td valign="top">-9299 700 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ethiopia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">foundation of <a title="Dʿmt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%CA%BFmt">D&#8217;mt</a> in the early <a title="8th century BC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_century_BC">8th   century BC</a>, succeeded by the <a title="Aksumite Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksumite_Empire">Aksumite   Empire</a>; oldest independent country in <a title="Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa">Africa</a> and one of   the oldest in the world. <a title="Land of Punt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt">Punt</a> is thought to have existed in northern Ethiopia   and Eritrea from the <a title="25th century BC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_century_BC">25th century BC</a> preceding D&#8217;mt.</td>
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<td valign="top">-9339 660 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">in traditional discovery side <a title="Emperor Jimmu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Jimmu">Emperor   Jimmu</a>. Modern Japan was unified in 270 by <a title="Emperor Ojin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Ojin">Emperor   Ojin</a> and again in 1598 by <a title="Toyotomi Hideyoshi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi">Toyotomi Hideyoshi</a>. End of <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United   States</a> <a title="Allied" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied">Allied</a> administration on March 20, 1952</td>
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<td valign="top">-9449 550 BC</td>
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<td valign="top">-9662 337 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Greece" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece">Greece</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification occurred under the <a title="Macedon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedon">Macedonians</a> by <a title="Philip II of Macedon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon">King Philip II of Macedon</a> in <strong>337 BC</strong>.   After decline in power, Greece was incorporated into the <a title="Roman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire">Roman   Empire</a>, <a title="Byzantine Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> and <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a>. The modern <a title="Greece" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece">Hellenic Republic</a> was established on <strong>25 March 1821</strong> after independence from the <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a></td>
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<td valign="top">-9677 322 BC</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Pakistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan">Pakistan</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India">India</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Bangladesh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">first unified state incorporating the majority of modern India, was   founded under the <a title="Mauryan Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauryan_Empire">Maurya dynasty</a> by <a title="Chandragupta Maurya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandragupta_Maurya">Emperor Chandragupta Maurya</a> in <strong>322 BC</strong>.   Re-unification occurred in 1600 under the <a title="Mughal dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_dynasty">Mughal   dynasty</a> by <a title="Akbar the Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_the_Great">Akbar the Great</a>. Became part of the <a title="British Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire">British   Empire</a> in 1757. <a title="Independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence">Independence</a> declared in 1947. Modern <a title="Pakistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan">Pakistan</a> was   subsequently established on August 14, 1947 and the modern <a title="India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India">Republic of India</a> was established on <strong>26 January 1950</strong>, while <a title="Bangladesh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> finally became a sovereign state on the <strong>16 December 1971</strong></td>
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<td valign="top">00301-09-03 September   3, 301</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="San Marino" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino">San Marino</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">claims to be world&#8217;s oldest surviving <a title="Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic">republic</a></td>
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<td valign="top">00486 486</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">conquered by <a title="Clovis I" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I">Clovis</a>, French Kingdom (West Francia) created in 843 with   <a title="Treaty of Verdun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun">Treaty of Verdun</a>, although present-day France (<a title="French Fifth Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic">5th Republic</a>) was created on October 5,   1958.</td>
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<td valign="top">00681 681</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Bulgaria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification of <a title="Bulgars" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgars">Bulgars</a> and <a title="Slavic peoples" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples">Slavs</a> by <a title="Asparukh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparukh">Asparukh</a> after the <a title="Byzantine empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_empire">Byzantine empire</a> was forced to sign a peace   treaty with them. Autonomy from the <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a> on 3 March 1878 and gained independence from <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a> on September 22, 1908</td>
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<td valign="top"><a title="7th century" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_century">7th   century</a></td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Brunei" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei">Brunei</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">predecessor state of the Sultanate of Brunei established</td>
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<td valign="top">00780 780</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Serbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia">Serbia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification of Serbian tribes under <a title="Višeslav I" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%A1eslav_I">Višeslav   I</a>, great-grandson of the <a title="Unknown Archont" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Archont">Unknown   Archont</a>. <a title="Serbian Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Empire">Serbian Empire</a> is formed in 1346 under Tzar <a title="Stefan Dušan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Du%C5%A1an">Stefan   Dušan</a>. On February 4, 1804, Serbia declares independence from <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a>. Sovereign until 1813. Became an autonomous state in <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a> in 1817 and independence (together with <a title="Montenegro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro">Montenegro</a>)   from the <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> on 13 July 1878</td>
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<td valign="top">00789 789</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Morocco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco">Morocco</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Idriss II founded the city of Fez and unified the tribes between the   Moulouya and Um Rabiaa rivers under first Moroccan dynasty. The country took   the name of <a title="Al Maghrib Al Aqsa (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al_Maghrib_Al_Aqsa&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Al Maghrib Al Aqsa</a>. The   Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Moroccan Dynasty since 1664.</td>
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<td valign="top">00862 862</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Russia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">Russia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Rurik" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik">Rurik</a> becomes the ruler of <a title="Novgorod" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod">Novgorod</a> in northern <a title="Rus' (region)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_%28region%29">Rus&#8217;</a>.   He founds the <a title="Rurik Dynasty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik_Dynasty">Rurikid dynasty</a>, which will rule Russian lands for   many ages to come. In 1147, first reference to <a title="Moscow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow">Moscow</a> about an   obscure town in a small province inhabited mostly by <a title="Merya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merya">Merya</a>.</td>
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<td valign="top">00872 872</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway">Norway</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">first establishment of a unified Norwegian state by King <a title="Harald I of Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I_of_Norway">Harald Hairfair</a> in 872. Present-Day Norway   regained partial independence from Denmark on the 17 May 1814 and established   a constitutional monarchy. Forced into a personal union with <a title="Sweden" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden">Sweden</a> on 4   November 1814 and declared independence on the 7 June 1905, after almost 500   years of unequal unions</td>
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<td valign="top">00882 882</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ukraine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine">Ukraine</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Start of Christianity for <a title="Kievan Rus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus">Kievan Rus</a></td>
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<td valign="top">00925 925</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Croatia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia">Croatia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">transformation of the medieval Croatian state into a <a title="Kingdom of Croatia (medieval)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Croatia_%28medieval%29">kingdom</a> under <a title="Tomislav" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomislav">Tomislav</a> around 925</td>
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<td valign="top">00930 930</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Iceland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland">Iceland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">founding of a central parliament (<a title="Alþingi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%C3%BEingi">Alþingi</a>)   for the newly settled country</td>
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<td valign="top">00966 966</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland">Poland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Christianized after being unified by <a title="Mieszko I of Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland">Mieszko I</a>, the first Duke of Poland.   Coronation of <a title="Boleslaus I of Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaus_I_of_Poland">Boleslaus I the Brave</a> in 1025, the first   King of Poland. Although, modern-day Poland only regained independence on the   11 November 1918, proclaimed as a republic, which was later confirmed by the   Treaty of Versailles in 1919. <a title="People's Republic of Poland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland">People&#8217;s Republic of Poland</a> independence from Nazi Germany on July 21, 1944</td>
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<td valign="top">00980 980</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Denmark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark">Denmark</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">consolidation in the late 8th century. In the 9th century Denmark was   divided into different kingdoms, but became organized as a unified state by <a title="Harold Bluetooth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bluetooth">Harold   Bluetooth</a> around 980. Denmark has been continuously independent ever   since.</td>
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<td valign="top">00995 995</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Sweden" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden">Sweden</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Olof Skötkonung" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Sk%C3%B6tkonung">Olof Skötkonung</a> became the first king to rule   both Svealand and Götaland. Sweden has been continuously independent ever since.</td>
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<td valign="top">01001-01-01 January 1,   1001</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Hungary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary">Hungary</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification by <a title="Stephen of Hungary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_of_Hungary">King Stephen I</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01002 1002</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland">Ireland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unified under <a title="Brian Boru" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boru">King Brian I</a>. <a title="Irish Free State" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State">Irish   Free State</a> independence from United Kingdom on December 6, 1921 by   treaty, most of Ireland (26 counties) became an independent nation known as   the <a title="Irish Free State" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State">Irish Free State</a>; while six counties in the   north remained part of the <a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United   Kingdom</a> and were renamed <a title="Northern Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland">Northern   Ireland</a>. The modern <a title="Republic of Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> exited the <a title="British Commonwealth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Commonwealth">British Commonwealth</a> and becomes a republic   on April 1, 1949 when the <a title="Republic of Ireland Act 1948" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_Act_1948">Republic of Ireland Act 1948</a> is   empowered.</td>
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<td valign="top">01139 1139</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Portugal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal">Portugal</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="County of Portugal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Portugal">County of Portugal</a> becomes independent from   the <a title="Kingdom of León" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n">Kingdom of León</a> after the <a title="Battle of Ourique" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ourique">Battle of Ourique</a> as part of the <a title="Reconquista" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista">Reconquista</a>.   Recognized by León in 1143 and by the Pope in 1179.</td>
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<td valign="top">01153 1153</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Maldives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives">Maldives</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">the last <a title="Buddhist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist">Buddhist</a> king of Maldives converts to <a title="Islam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam">Islam</a> and adopts   the title <em><a title="Sultan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan">Sultan</a></em></td>
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<td valign="top">01156 1156</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Austria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria">Austria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">raised from a <a title="Bavaria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria">Bavarian</a> margravate to an independent duchy under the <a title="Babenberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babenberg">Babenbergs</a> in the <a title="Privilegium Minus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilegium_Minus">Privilegium Minus</a>. Modern-Day Austria was   created on the 27th of April 1945 after the Fall of the German Reich.</td>
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<td valign="top">01190 1190</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Albania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania">Albania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Progon, Prince of Albania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progon,_Prince_of_Albania">Progon, Prince of Albania</a>. On November   28, 1443, <a title="Skanderbeg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg">Skanderbeg</a> liberated <a title="Kruja" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruja">Kruja</a>,   then Albanian capital. Independence from the <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a> on November 28, 1912</td>
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<td valign="top">01206 1206</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mongolia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia">Mongolia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification of <a title="Mongols" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols">Mongolian</a> <a title="Tribe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe">tribes</a> by <a title="Genghis Khan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan">Genghis Khan</a>. Independence from China on July 11,   1921</td>
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<td valign="top">01238 1238</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Thailand" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand">Thailand</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">traditional founding date after collapse of <a title="Khmer Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire">Khmer   Empire</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01253-07-06 July 6,   1253</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Lithuania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania">Lithuania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Coronation of <a title="Mindaugas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindaugas">Mindaugas</a>. Independence from Russia on February 16, 1918   and from USSR on March 11, 1990</td>
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<td valign="top">01278 1278</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Andorra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra">Andorra</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">formed under the joint suzerainty of the French <a title="Count of Foix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Foix">count   of Foix</a> and the Catalan <a title="Bishop of Urgell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Urgell">bishop   of Urgell</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01291 1291</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">date of the <a title="Federal Charter of 1291" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Charter_of_1291">Federal Charter</a>. On August 1, 1291, the <a title="Federal Charter of 1291" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Charter_of_1291">Swiss Federal Charter</a> is signed. Exact   date of the charter&#8217;s signing is still unknown.</td>
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<td valign="top">01419 1419</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Monaco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco">Monaco</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">beginning of the rule by the <a title="House of Grimaldi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Grimaldi">House of Grimaldi</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01492 1492</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spain</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">With the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs all former Iberian   kingdoms, apart from Portugal, are merged in, latter referred as <a title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spain</a>.</td>
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<td valign="top">01581-07-26 July 26,   1581</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Netherlands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">Netherlands</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">declared independence from the <a title="Spanish Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire">Spanish   Empire</a> during the <a title="Eighty Years' War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War">Eighty Years&#8217; War</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01650 1650</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Oman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman">Oman</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">expulsion of the Portuguese</td>
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<h2>Modern-day states</h2>
<p>The dates in the table below are celebrated as <a title="Independence Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day">Independence Day</a> or an equivalent holiday in some <a title="Countries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries">countries</a>.</p>
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<td width="12%" valign="top"><strong>Date</strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_statehood"><strong> </strong></a><strong> </strong></td>
<td width="16%" valign="top"><strong>Nation</strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_statehood"><strong> </strong></a><strong></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Event</strong><strong></strong></td>
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<td valign="top">01634 1634</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Bhutan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan">Bhutan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unified by <a title="Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabdrung_Ngawang_Namgyal">Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal</a> after the <a title="Battle of Five Lamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Lamas">Battle of Five Lamas</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01768-12-21 December   21, 1768</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Nepal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal">Nepal</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unified by <a title="Prithvi Narayan Shah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prithvi_Narayan_Shah">Prithvi Narayan Shah</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01776-07-04 July 4,   1776</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States of America</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Declaration of Independence (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_%28United_States%29">declared independence</a> from <a title="Kingdom of Great Britain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01801-01-01 January 1,   1801</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">The <a title="Acts of Union 1800" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800">Acts of Union 1800</a> united the kingdoms of <a title="Kingdom of Great Britain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain">Great Britain</a> and <a title="Kingdom of Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland">Ireland</a>. Great Britain had been formed on 1   May 1707 by the union of <a title="Kingdom of England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England">England</a> and the <a title="Kingdom of Scotland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland">Scotland</a> under the <a title="Treaty of Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Union">Treaty   of Union</a> and <a title="Acts of Union 1707" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707">Acts of Union 1707</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01804-01-01 January 1,   1804</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Haiti" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti">Haiti</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
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<td valign="top">01806-07-12 July 12,   1806</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Liechtenstein" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein">Liechtenstein</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the <a title="Holy Roman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01810-07-20 July 20,   1810</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Colombia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia">Colombia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01810-09-16 September   16, 1810</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico">Mexico</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01810-09-18 September   18, 1810</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Chile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01811-05-14 May 14,   1811</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Paraguay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay">Paraguay</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01811-07-05 July 5,   1811</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Venezuela" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela">Venezuela</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01816-07-09 July 9,   1816</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Argentina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina">Argentina</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01821-07-28 July 28,   1821</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Peru" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru">Peru</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01821-09-15 September   15, 1821</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Costa Rica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica">Costa Rica</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="El Salvador" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador">El   Salvador</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Guatemala" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala">Guatemala</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Honduras" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras">Honduras</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Nicaragua" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Mexico</td>
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<td valign="top">01822-05-24 May 24,   1822</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ecuador" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador">Ecuador</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01822-09-07 September   7, 1822</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Brazil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil">Brazil</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">broken ties within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve</td>
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<td valign="top">01825-08-06 August 6,   1825</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Bolivia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia">Bolivia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
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<td valign="top">01825-08-25 August 25,   1825</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Uruguay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay">Uruguay</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Brazil</td>
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<td valign="top">01830-10-04 October 4,   1830</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Belgium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium">Belgium</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Netherlands</td>
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<td valign="top">01839 1839</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Luxembourg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Netherlands</td>
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<td valign="top">01844-02-27 February   27, 1844</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Dominican Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic">Dominican Republic</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Haiti</td>
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<td valign="top">01847-07-26 July 26, 1847</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Liberia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia">Liberia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">founded by American black slaves</td>
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<td valign="top">01861-03-17 March 17,   1861</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Italy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy">Italy</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_%281861%E2%80%931946%29">Kingdom of Italy</a> unified under King <a title="Victor Emmanuel II of Italy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy">Victor Emmanuel II of Italy</a>.</td>
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<td valign="top">01867-07-01 July 1,   1867</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">the uniting of four British colonies to form a self-governing federal   dominion</td>
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<td valign="top">01868 1868</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Qatar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar">Qatar</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Bahrain</td>
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<td valign="top">01871-01-18 January   18, 1871</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="German Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire">German Empire</a> unification. Unification of West   Germany and East Germany on October 3, 1990</td>
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<td valign="top">01877-05-09 May 9,   1877</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Romania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania">Romania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Ottoman Empire. <a title="Kingdom of Romania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a> formed on March 26, 1881.   Proclaimed as a republic on December 30, 1947</td>
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<td valign="top">01878-07-13 July 13,   1878</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Serbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia">Serbia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">together with Montenegro, independence from the <a title="Ottoman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire">Ottoman   Empire</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01878-07-13 July 13,   1878</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Montenegro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro">Montenegro</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">together with Serbia, independence from the Ottoman Empire</td>
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<td valign="top">01898-06-12 June 12,   1898</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Philippines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines">Philippines</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">The newly-proclaimed <a title="History of the Philippines (1898–1946)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_%281898%E2%80%931946%29#Philippine_declaration_of_independence_and_establishment_of_Philippine_governments">Dictatorial Government of the   Philippines</a> declared independence from Spain during <a title="Spanish-American War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War">Spanish-American War</a>, and the Philippines   celebrates this date as its Independence Day holiday. Subsequent to the   independence declaration, the nascent Philippine government waged the <a title="Philippine-American War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War">Philippine-American War</a> and was   unsuccessful in establishing <a title="Philippine sovereignty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_sovereignty">sovereignty</a>. Sovereignty over the   Philippines passed from Spain to the United States on December 10, 1898 via   the <a title="Treaty of Paris (1898)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281898%29">Treaty of Paris</a>, which ended the   Spanish-American War. On July 4, 1946, the United States recognized the <a title="Republic of the Philippines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Philippines">Republic of the Philippines</a> as an   independent, sovereign state.</td>
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<td valign="top">01898-12-10 December   10, 1898</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Cuba" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba">Cuba</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain and on 20 May 1902, from U.S. administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01901-01-01 January 1,   1901</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the UK as a federation of 6 former colonies</td>
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<td valign="top">01903-11-03 November   3, 1903</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Panama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama">Panama</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Colombia</td>
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<td valign="top">01907-09-26 September   26, 1907</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="New Zealand" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand">New Zealand</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">granted Dominion status by the UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01910-05-31 May 31,   1910</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="South Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa">South Africa</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">granted Dominion status by the UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01917-12-06 December   6, 1917</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Finland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland">Finland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Russia</td>
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<td valign="top">01918-02-16 February   16, 1918</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Lithuania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania">Lithuania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Russia</td>
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<td valign="top">01918-02-24 February   24, 1918</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Estonia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia">Estonia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Russia</td>
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<td valign="top">01918-03-25 March 25,   1918</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Belarus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus">Belarus</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Russia</td>
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<td valign="top">01918-05-28 May 28,   1918</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Azerbaijan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Iran &amp; Join to Russia With War</td>
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<td valign="top">01918-11-18 November   18, 1918</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Latvia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia">Latvia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Russia</td>
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<td valign="top">01919-08-19 August 19,   1919</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Afghanistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Iran</td>
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<td valign="top">01923-10-29 October   29, 1923</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Turkey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey">Turkey</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">successor state to the Ottoman</td>
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<td valign="top">01929-02-11 February   11, 1929</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Vatican City" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City">Vatican City</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Italy</td>
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<td valign="top">01932-09-23 September   23, 1932</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Saudi Arabia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Unification of the Kingdom</td>
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<td valign="top">01932-10-03 October 3,   1932</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq">Iraq</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01943-11-22 November   22, 1943</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Lebanon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon">Lebanon</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from <a title="League of Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations">League of Nations</a> <a title="League of Nations mandate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations_mandate">mandate</a> under French administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01944-06-17 June 17,   1944</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Iceland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland">Iceland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Denmark</td>
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<td valign="top">01946-04-17 April 17,   1946</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Syria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria">Syria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from League of Nations mandate under French administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01946-05-25 May 25,   1946</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Jordan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan">Jordan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from League of Nations mandate under British administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01948-01-04 January 4,   1948</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Myanmar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar">Myanmar</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK as <a title="Burma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma">Burma</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01948-02-04 February   4, 1948</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Sri Lanka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka">Sri   Lanka</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK as <a title="Ceylon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon">Ceylon</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01948-05-14 May 14,   1948</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel">Israel</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from League of Nations mandate under British administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01949-12-27 December   27, 1949</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Indonesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia">Indonesia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Netherlands</td>
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<td valign="top">01951-12-24 December   24, 1951</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Libya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya">Libya</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK and French administration</td>
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<td valign="top">01953-10-22 October   22, 1953</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Laos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos">Laos</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
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<td valign="top">01953-11-09 November   9, 1953</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Cambodia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia">Cambodia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France. Became free from Vietnamese occupation on September 26,   1989</td>
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<td valign="top">01956-01-01 January 1,   1956</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Sudan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan">Sudan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Egypt and UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01956-03-20 March 20,   1956</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Tunisia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia">Tunisia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
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<td valign="top">01957-03-06 March 6, 1957</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ghana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana">Ghana</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01958-10-02 October 2,   1958</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Guinea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea">Guinea</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
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<td valign="top">01960-01-01 January 1,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Cameroon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon">Cameroon</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from French-administered <a title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">UN</a> <a title="United Nations Trusteeship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Trusteeship">trusteeship</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01960-04-04 April 4,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Senegal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal">Senegal</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
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<td valign="top">01960-04-27 April 27,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Togo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo">Togo</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from French-administered UN trusteeship</td>
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<td valign="top">01960-06-26 June 26,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Madagascar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar">Madagascar</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France. In 1817, King <a title="Radama I" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radama_I">Radama I</a> consolidates his authority over all but a small portion of the island and is   recognized as King of Madagascar by the <a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United   Kingdom</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01960-06-26 June 26,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Somalia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia">Somalia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the UK</td>
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<td valign="top">01960-06-30 June 30,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Democratic Republic of the Congo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Belgium as <a title="Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_%28L%C3%A9opoldville%29">Congo-Léopoldville</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01960-07-01 July 1,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Somalia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia">Somalia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Italian-administered UN trusteeship</td>
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<td valign="top">01960-08-01 August 1,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Benin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin">Benin</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France as <a title="Dahomey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey">Dahomey</a></td>
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<td valign="top">01960-08-03 August 3,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Niger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger">Niger</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-05 August 5,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Burkina Faso" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso">Burkina Faso</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France as <a title="Upper Volta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Volta">Upper Volta</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-07 August 7,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Côte d'Ivoire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire">Côte d&#8217;Ivoire</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France as <a title="Ivory Coast" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast">Ivory Coast</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-11 August 11,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Chad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad">Chad</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-13 August 13,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Central African Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic">Central African Republic</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-15 August 15,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Republic of the Congo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo">Republic of the Congo</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-16 August 16,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Cyprus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus">Cyprus</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-08-17 August 17,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Gabon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon">Gabon</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-09-22 September   22, 1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mali" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali">Mali</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-10-01 October 1,   1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Nigeria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria">Nigeria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01960-11-28 November   28, 1960</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mauritania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania">Mauritania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01961-04-27 April 27,   1961</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Sierra Leone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone">Sierra Leone</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01961-06-19 June 19,   1961</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kuwait" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait">Kuwait</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-01-01 January 1,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Samoa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa">Samoa</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from New Zealand-administered UN trusteeship as <a title="Western Samoa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Samoa">Western   Samoa</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-07-01 July 1,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Burundi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi">Burundi</a></strong>,   <strong><a title="Rwanda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda">Rwanda</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Belgian-administered UN trusteeship</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-07-05 July 5,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Algeria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria">Algeria</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-08-06 August 6,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Jamaica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica">Jamaica</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-08-31 August 31,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Trinidad and Tobago" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01962-10-09 October 9,   1962</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Uganda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda">Uganda</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01963-09-16 September   16, 1963</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Malaysia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia">Malaysia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">Federation of Malaysia formed from Sarawak, North Borneo (now   officially named Sabah), Malaya and Singapore</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01963-12-12 December   12, 1963</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kenya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya">Kenya</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01964-04-26 April 26,   1964</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Tanzania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania">Tanzania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK-administered UN trusteeship</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01964-07-06 July 6,   1964</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Malawi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi">Malawi</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01964-09-21 September   21, 1964</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Malta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta">Malta</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01964-10-24 October   24, 1964</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Zambia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia">Zambia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01965-02-18 February   18, 1965</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="The Gambia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia">The Gambia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01965-07-26 July 26,   1965</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Maldives" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives">Maldives</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01965-08-09 August 9,   1965</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Singapore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore">Singapore</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Malaysian Federation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01966-05-26 May 26,   1966</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Guyana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana">Guyana</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01966-09-30 September   30, 1966</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Botswana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana">Botswana</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01966-10-04 October 4,   1966</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Lesotho" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho">Lesotho</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01966-11-30 November   30, 1966</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Barbados" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados">Barbados</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01968-01-31 January   31, 1968</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Nauru" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru">Nauru</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from the Australia-, NZ-, and UK-administered UN trusteeship</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01968-03-12 March 12,   1968</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mauritius" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius">Mauritius</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01968-09-06 September   6, 1968</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Swaziland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaziland">Swaziland</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01968-10-12 October   12, 1968</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Equatorial Guinea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Spain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01970-06-04 June 4,   1970</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Tonga" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga">Tonga</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01970-10-10 October   10, 1970</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Fiji" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji">Fiji</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01971-08-15 August 15,   1971</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Bahrain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain">Bahrain</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Iran</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01971-09-03 September   3, 1971</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Qatar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar">Qatar</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01971-12-02 December   2, 1971</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="United Arab Emirates" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01973-07-10 July 10,   1973</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="The Bahamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas">The Bahamas</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01973-09-24 September   24, 1973</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Guinea-Bissau" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">declared independence from Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01974-02-07 February   7, 1974</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Grenada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada">Grenada</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-06-25 June 25,   1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Mozambique" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique">Mozambique</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-07-05 July 5,   1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Cape Verde" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde">Cape Verde</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-07-06 July 6,   1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Comoros" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros">Comoros</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-07-12 July 12,   1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="São Tomé and Príncipe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-09-16 September   16, 1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Papua New Guinea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Australian-administered UN trusteeship</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-11-11 November   11, 1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Angola" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola">Angola</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Portugal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01975-11-25 November   25, 1975</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Suriname" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname">Suriname</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Netherlands</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01976-06-29 June 29,   1976</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Seychelles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles">Seychelles</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01977-06-27 June 27,   1977</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Djibouti" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti">Djibouti</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01978-07-07 July 7,   1978</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Solomon Islands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands">Solomon Islands</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01978-10-01 October 1,   1978</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Tuvalu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01978-11-03 November   3, 1978</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Dominica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica">Dominica</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01979-02-22 February   22, 1979</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Saint Lucia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01979-02-12 February   12, 1979</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kiribati" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati">Kiribati</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01979-10-27 October   27, 1979</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01980-04-18 April 18,   1980</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Zimbabwe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01980-07-30 July 30,   1980</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Vanuatu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from France and UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01981-09-21 September   21, 1981</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Belize" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize">Belize</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01981-11-01 November   1, 1981</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Antigua and Barbuda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda">Antigua and Barbuda</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01983-09-19 September   19, 1983</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Saint Kitts and Nevis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01983-11-15 November   15, 1983</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="North Cyprus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cyprus">North Cyprus</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from <a title="Cyprus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus">Cyprus</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01984-01-01 January 1,   1984</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Brunei" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei">Brunei</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01986-10-21 October   21, 1986</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Marshall Islands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands">Marshall Islands</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from US-administered UN trusteeship as <a title="Compact of Free Association" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association">Compact of Free Association</a> takes   effect</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01986-11-03 November   3, 1986</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Federated States of Micronesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from US-administered UN Trusteeship as Compact of Free Association   takes effect</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01990-03-11 March 11,   1990</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Lithuania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania">Lithuania</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01990-03-21 March 21,   1990</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Namibia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia">Namibia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from South Africa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01990-05-22 May 22,   1990</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Yemen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen">Yemen</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">unification of <a title="North Yemen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen">North Yemen</a> (independence from the Ottoman Empire on   November 1, 1918) and <a title="South Yemen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen">South Yemen</a> (independence from UK on November 30,   1967)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-04-09 April 9,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Georgia (country)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28country%29">Georgia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-06-25 June 25,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Croatia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia">Croatia</a></strong>,   <strong><a title="Slovenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia">Slovenia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Yugoslavia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-20 August 20,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Estonia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia">Estonia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-21 August 21,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Latvia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia">Latvia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-24 August 24,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Russia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">Russia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">successor state of USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-24 August 24,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Ukraine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine">Ukraine</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-25 August 25,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Belarus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus">Belarus</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-27 August 27,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Moldova" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova">Moldova</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-30 August 30,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Azerbaijan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-08-31 August 31,   1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kyrgyzstan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-09-01 September   1, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Uzbekistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-09-08 September   8, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Republic of Macedonia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia">Republic of Macedonia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Yugoslavia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-09-09 September   9, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Tajikistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-09-21 September   21, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Armenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia">Armenia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-10-27 October   27, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Turkmenistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01991-12-16 December   16, 1991</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kazakhstan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from USSR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">01992-03-01 March 1,   1992</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Bosnia and Herzegovina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Yugoslavia</td>
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<td valign="top">01993-01-01 January 1,   1993</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Czech Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</a></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Slovakia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia">Slovakia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="Czechoslovakia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> dissolved</td>
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<td valign="top">01993-05-24 May 24,   1993</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Eritrea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea">Eritrea</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Ethiopia</td>
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<td valign="top">01994-10-01 October 1,   1994</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Palau" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau">Palau</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from US-administered UN Trusteeship as <a title="Compact of Free Association" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association">Compact of Free Association</a> takes   effect</td>
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<td valign="top">02002-05-20 May 20,   2002</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="East Timor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor">East Timor</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from Portugal (recognition, East Timor was invaded by Indonesia from   1975 to 1999, officially it never ceased to be considered as administrated by   Portugal)</td>
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<td valign="top">02006-06-03 June 3, 2006</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Montenegro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro">Montenegro</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">from <a title="Serbia and Montenegro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro">Serbia and Montenegro</a></td>
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<td valign="top">02006-06-05 June 5,   2006</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Serbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia">Serbia</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top">successor state of Serbia and Montenegro</td>
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<td valign="top">02008-02-18 February   18, 2008</td>
<td valign="top"><strong><a title="Kosovo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo">Kosovo</a></strong></td>
<td valign="top"><a title="2008 Kosovo declaration of independence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence">declares independence</a> from <a title="Serbia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia">Serbia</a></td>
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		<title>where is her grave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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The Muslims have been deeply pained.
Their beloved prophet has passed away.
And especially for his kith and kin,
it is one of their live&#8217;s saddest day.
A lady who happens to be his  daughter,
Above all, is the most afflicted one.
She was the nearest to her father.
Alas!  Her troubles have just begun.
What in the Prophet&#8221;s eyes was [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Muslims have been deeply pained.</p>
<p>Their beloved prophet has passed away.</p>
<p>And especially for his kith and kin,</p>
<p>it is one of their live&#8217;s saddest day.</p>
<p>A lady who happens to be his  daughter,</p>
<p>Above all, is the most afflicted one.</p>
<p>She was the nearest to her father.</p>
<p>Alas!  Her troubles have just begun.</p>
<p>What in the Prophet&#8221;s eyes was her status?</p>
<p>Unfortunately the people shall forget.</p>
<p>She should be respected by all of us.</p>
<p>But a harsh treatment, she&#8221;ll be met.</p>
<p>Everyone had heard her father say,</p>
<p>&#8220;My daughter is a part of me&#8221;.</p>
<p>For  her safety he would often pray;</p>
<p>Not wanting her  to bear any agony.</p>
<p>But his  words fell on deaf ears</p>
<p>As his followers were lead  astray.</p>
<p>And were realized those worst fears,</p>
<p>Because his tidings were disobeyed.</p>
<p>Each forthcoming day brings her  sorrow</p>
<p>And only a few more months she&#8221;ll live.</p>
<p>Each night she worries about her woes.</p>
<p>Her tormentors, she may not forgive.</p>
<p>In her last days, she is seen  weeping.</p>
<p>Awake all night, she seldom sleeps.</p>
<p>Of her troubles, she keeps thinking.</p>
<p>The wounds in her heart are so deep.</p>
<p>The thoughts of her father alone</p>
<p>Cause tears from her eyes to flow</p>
<p>And  what will happen to her children?</p>
<p>What fate do  they have in stow?</p>
<p>&#8220;Be kind  to them and take care&#8221;,</p>
<p>She wills about her poor  children,</p>
<p>Because she&#8221;ll be no longer near</p>
<p>And they&#8221;ll soon be orphans.</p>
<p>As she spends the time crying,</p>
<p>Her  neighbors come and complain.</p>
<p>But look! She is  already dying.</p>
<p>Their complaint will be in vain.</p>
<p>And that dark moment finally  comes,</p>
<p>For her heavenly abode, she departs.</p>
<p>Holding back their tears, her children,</p>
<p>See baba leaving with a heavy heart.</p>
<p>Hands trembling and with great  anguish,</p>
<p>He takes away her coffin during the  night.</p>
<p>And he makes sure to fulfill her last wish.</p>
<p>She will rest, out of everyone’s&#8221; sight.</p>
<p>Has gone from this world forever,</p>
<p>The mother of children so brave!</p>
<p>But  why was she buried in a manner</p>
<p>That no one knows  where is her grave?</p>
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