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The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 145 out of 193 UN member states. It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
Phoenicia (/ f ə ˈ n ɪ ʃ ə, f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ə /), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
Initially many Greek city-states seem to have been petty kingdoms; there was often a city official carrying some residual, ceremonial functions of the king , e.g., the archon basileus in Athens. [76] However, by the Archaic period and the first historical consciousness, most had already become aristocratic oligarchies .
The political culture of ancient Greece and specifically the ancient Greek city state of Sparta under Lycurgus, with its emphasis on militarism and racial purity, were admired by the Nazis. [87] [88] Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler emphasized that Germany should adhere to Hellenic values and culture – particularly that of ancient Sparta. [87]
The Peerage of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Moraireachd na h-Alba; Scots: Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707.
Artists and craftsmen were of higher status than farmers, but they were also under state control, working in the shops attached to the temples and paid directly from the state treasury. Scribes and officials formed the upper class in ancient Egypt, known as the "white kilt class" in reference to the bleached linen garments that served as a mark ...
Imperial City Swab SW 1268: Free Imperial City 1803: To Baden: Ulm: Imperial City Swab SW 1115: Free Imperial City 1802: To Bavaria 1810: To Württemberg: Umpfenbach Territory n/a n/a n/a 1773: Purchased by Philipp Freiherr von Gudenus and Valentin Ferdinand Freiherr von Gudenus from Christian Friedrich Carl Graf zu Castell-Remlingen