Month: August 2025

First settled by the French in the early 17th century, Saint Pierre and Miquelon are the sole remaining vestige of ...

Mexico was the site of several advanced Amerindian civilizations -- including the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Maya, and Aztec -- ...

Greenland, the world's largest island, is about 80% ice capped. The Inuit came to Greenland from North America in a ...

This isolated atoll was named for John CLIPPERTON, an English pirate who was rumored to have made it his hideout ...

A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867, while retaining ties to ...

Bermuda was first settled in 1609 by shipwrecked English colonists heading for Virginia. Self-governing since 1620, Bermuda is the oldest ...

The Kingdom of Yemen (colloquially known as North Yemen) became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and in 1962 ...

The landlocked West Bank -- the larger of the two Palestinian territories -- is home to some three million Palestinians. Inhabited ...

The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf coast granted the UK control of their defense and foreign affairs in 19th-century ...

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire by reformer and national hero Mustafa KEMAL, ...

After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. ...