Month: August 2025

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the principality of Gorkha united many of the other principalities and states ...

A sultanate since the 12th century, the Maldives became a British protectorate in 1887 and a republic in 1968, three ...

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world's oldest, flourished during the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. and extended into ...

Formerly administered as part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) was established as ...

After Britain’s victory in the 1865 Duar War, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would ...

The huge delta region at the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra River systems -- now referred to as Bangladesh ...

Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the ...

Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830, the others being Ecuador ...

The Spanish founded the city of Montevideo in modern-day Uruguay in 1726 as a military stronghold, and it soon became ...

The Spaniards first explored Suriname in the 16th century, and the English then settled it in the mid-17th century. Suriname ...

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under ...