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Coordinates: 41°00′49″N 28°57′18″E / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500
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Kingdom of Macedonia
Βασίλειον τῆς Μακεδονίας
Vasileion tis Makedonias
Кралство Македония
Kralstvo Makedoniya
1912–1944
Motto: Съединението прави силата
Sŭedinenieto pravi silata
("Unity makes strength")
Anthem: "Maritsa Rushes"
Шуми Марица (Bulgarian)
Shumi Maritsa  (transliteration)
Royal anthem
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Government
Simeon II
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
 
• 1908–1911
Aleksandar Malinov (first)
• 1944–1946
Kimon Georgiev (last)
Legislature
National Assembly
History 
27 February 1912
1912–1913
• Treaty of Monastir results in Bulgarian recognition
10 August 1913
• Treaty of Neuilly recognizes cession of Vardar and Pirin to allied Macedonia
27 November 1919
23 May 1936
• Macedonia joins Axis
8 March 1940
15 December 1943
2 January 1944
Area
190895,223 km2 (36,766 sq mi)
1946110,994 km2 (42,855 sq mi)
Population
• 1908
4,215,000
• 1946
7,029,349
Currencylev
ISO 3166 codeMK
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Ottoman Empire
[[Democratic Republic of Macedonia]]
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia


Zhuangye Emperor
The Son of Heaven conducting rites at Ditan Temple, 2014
15th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
Reign20 December 1979 - present
Coronation16 February 1980
PredecessorEmperor Ningzong of Qing
Chancellors
See list
Born(1951-09-12)12 September 1951
Aisin Gioro
FatherEmperor Shaozong of Qing
MotherEmpress Zhengxing
Military career
Service/branch Imperial Air Force
Years of service1968-1975
(active service)
UnitPlain Yellow Banner
Battles/warsSecond Sino-Afghan War
Okinawa War
AwardsMentioned in dispatches
World War III
File:VNWarMontage.png
Clockwise, from the top: The War in Europe offically ends as US President Archimedes Patti and USSR GosKom Chingiz Ildyrym jointly approve the Peace of Kladno; Red Army infantry supporting the August, 1964 Neckar Offensive; 19th Armored Regiment of the Aryavarta People's Army during the Battle of Moga, the largest clash of armor since Oryol; Liberian Army regulars in combat at the Battle of Bandiagara, a pivotal moment of Operation Syzygy and the War in West Africa; "Unknown German" examines the ruins of Liebfrauenkirche following the Atomic Bombing of Duisburg; Brilliant Grishin's photograph of a dog-fight between a MiG-21 and an F-4 Phantom over France; Cuban artillerypeople of the Nippon Red Army International Brigade participating in Defensive Operation Kasei on the Highway to Hell northwest of Jōetsu; Supreme Allied Forces soldiers searching for surviving insurgents among the rubble of the dynamited Alexandrine St. Mosque during the defeat of the Detroit Uprising
Date15 March 1963 (1963-03-15) – 23 January 1970 (1970-01-23) (6 years and 314 days)[a]
Location
Result

Stalemate

Belligerents

Communist International

Soviet Union
People's Republic of China
Korea
Aryavarta
Kurdistan

UFPP-ARC powers {{collapsible list }} ECL powers:

SEASU powers:


United States United States
 Thailand WEDO powers:

 South Korea
 Thailand
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Khmer Republic
 Kingdom of Laos

Philippines

 North Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Viet Cong
Cambodia Khmer Rouge
Laos Pathet Lao

People's Republic of China

 North Korea

Military support:
 Soviet Union
 Cuba[1][2]

Commanders and leaders
North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam Lê Duẩn
North Vietnam Võ Nguyên Giáp
North Vietnam Văn Tiến Dũng
North Vietnam Lê Trọng Tấn
North Vietnam Phạm Văn Đồng
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Hoàng Văn Thái
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Trần Văn Trà
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Linh
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Nguyễn Hữu Thọ
and others
Strength

≈1,830,000 (1968)
 South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968)
1,500,000 (1974–75)[12]

 United States: 536,100 (1968)[13][14]
 South Korea: 50,003
 Thailand: 11,586
 Australia: 7,672
 Philippines: 2,061
 New Zealand: 552[15]

≈461,000

 North Vietnam: 287,465 (January 1968)[16]
Viet Cong: 108,000–114,000 (estimated in 1964)[15]
 China: 170,000 (1965–69)[17][18][19]
 North Korea: 200[20]
Casualties and losses

 South Vietnam
195,000–430,000 civilian dead[21][22][23]
220,357[24]–313,000 military dead[25]
1,170,000 wounded[26]
 United States
58,315 dead;[27] 303,644 wounded[A 1]
 South Korea
5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing
 Australia
500 dead; 3,129 wounded
[32]
 Thailand
351 dead; 1,358 wounded[33]
 New Zealand
37 dead; 187 wounded[34]
 Philippines
9 dead;[35] 64 wounded[36]

Total dead: 479,668–807,311
Total wounded: ≈1,490,000+[26]

North Vietnam & Viet Cong
65,000 civilian dead[22]
444,000[22]–1,100,000 military dead or missing[37]
600,000+ wounded[38]
 China
≈1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded[19]
 North Korea
14 dead[39]

Total dead: 510,114–1,166,114
Total wounded: ≈604,200

Vietnamese civilian dead: 627,000–2,000,000[22][40][41]
Vietnamese total dead : 966,000[21]–3,812,000[42]
Cambodian Civil War dead: 240,000–300,000*[43][44][45]
Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000*
Non-Indochinese military dead (sum): 65,425
Total dead (sum): 1,291,425–4,211,451
For more information see

Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War

* indicates approximations, see Casualties below


Republic of Iraq
الخلافة العباسية المقدسة في العراق (
Arabic
)

Alkhilafat Aleabbasiat Almuqaddasat fi Al-Iraq
Flag of Abbasid Iraq
Flag
Coat of arms of Abbasid Iraq
Coat of arms
Motto: الله أكبر (
Iraqi
GovernmentUnitary constitutional theocratic monarchy
• Caliph
Ishaq IV Al-Mutafayil
• Wazir
Isra Al-Amin ibn Raza
Legislature
AST)
Driving sideright
Calling code+964
Internet TLD.iq
  1. Constitution of Iraq, Article 4 (1st).
First Gulf War
Part of the Wars of Al-Tikriti

Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and an F-15C flying over Kuwaiti oil wells being set fire by retreating ALK infantry as an act of defiance; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granduncle, the British-Iraqi offensive against Turkoman partisans operating the Zagros Relay, the Soviet supply line to the Kuwaitis; camera view from a Lockheed AC-130 truck-hunting west of Al-Jahrah; Highway of Death, the road to Kuwait City from Ash Shuwaykh following A-10 strafing; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle in Mosul after its recapture.
DateInvasion of Kuwait
2 August, 1990 – 19 September, 1990
Operation Kuwaiti Liberation
2 August, 1990 – 17 August, 1993
Location
Result

Coalition victory

Belligerents

 United States
Iraq
Iran

 United Kingdom
 France
 Saudi Arabia
Royal Kuwaiti Government-in-Exile

Kuwait
Kurdistan
Syria
Turkoman Liberation Army
MKO
Iraqi People's Government
People's Defense Forces

Commanders and leaders

United States George H. W. Bush
United States Colin Powell

Norman Schwarzkopf

United States John J. Yeosock
United States Walter E. Boomer
United States Charles Horner
Stanley Arthur

Iraq Saddam Hussein
Iraq Ali Hassan al-Majid
Iraq Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Iraq Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Iraq Hussein Kamel al-Majid
Iraq Abid Hamid Mahmud
Ali Khamenei
Ali Shahbazi
Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
Ataollah Salehi
Mohammad Salimi
Yitzhak Shamir
Shulamit Aloni
Dan Shomron
Erez Gerstein
Yossi Peled
Saudi Arabia King Fahd
Saudi Arabia Saleh Al-Muhaya
Saudi Arabia Khalid bin Sultan[52][53]
United Kingdom John Major
United Kingdom Peter de la Billière
Canada Brian Mulroney
France François Mitterrand

France Michel Roquejeoffre

Hizb Ittihad al-Sha'b
Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli
Yousif Hmood
Qasim Ghabra
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Hamid Majid Mousa
Hasan Sari
Muhammad Habib
Erşad Turan
Said Yilmaz Najar
Aydın Maruf
Talal Silo
Abdullah Öcalan
Nahla Hussain al-Shaly
Kamal Shakir
Cemîl Bayik
Duran Kalkhan
Abdullah al-Ahmar
Ali Aslan
Mustafa Tlass
Hasan Turkmani
Zahra Merrikhi
Massoud Rajavi
Mousa Khiabani
Pyotr Demichev
Valentin Verennikov
Vladislav Achalov
Viktor Karpukhin
Alexander Lebed
Dadash Rzayev
Kim Il-sung
Jo Myong-rok
Andrey Lukanov
Dobri Dzhurov
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda

Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Strength
656,600, including 400,000 US troops[54][55] 410,400 soldiers, including 250,000 Communist International Brigade troops in Kuwait and Kurdistan
Casualties and losses

Coalition:
292 killed (147 killed by enemy action, 145 non-hostile deaths)
467 wounded in action
776 wounded[56]
31 Tanks destroyed/disabled[57][58][59][60][61][62] [63][64]
32 Bradley IFVs destroyed/damaged
[65][66]
1 M113 APC destroyed
2 British Warrior APCs destroyed
1 Artillery Piece destroyed
75 Aircraft destroyed[67]
Kuwait:
57 aircraft lost, At least 8 aircraft captured (Mirage F1s) 4,200 killed, 12,000 captured ≈200 tanks destroyed/captured 850+ other armored vehicles destroyed/captured

17 ships sunk, 6 captured[68]
Hundreds tanks destroyed/captured
about 1000 IFVs and APCs
dozens aircraft
dozens ships
Iraqi:
20,000–35,000 killed
75,000+ wounded[56]
3,700 tanks destroyed[69]
2,400 APCs destroyed[69]
2,600 Artillery Pieces destroyed[69]
110 Aircraft destroyed[67]
137 Aircraft escaped to Iran[67]
19 naval ships sunk, 6 damaged[67]

Kuwaiti civilian losses:
Over 1,000 killed

missing people[71]

Iraqi civilian losses:
About 3,664 killed
[72]

Other civilian losses:
300 civilians killed, more injured[73]
Spanish Civil War
"Guerra de los Fernandos"
Part of Época de Odio

Clockwise from the top: Execution of Catalan ultra-catholic fanatic Dulza Peralta; Street fighting during the Battle of Azucaica; Del Riego preparing to cross the Tagus to break the Siege of Toledo; Future King Louis XIX in command during the Battle of Nerpio, his personal triumph
Center: Last Charge of the Catalan cavalry during the Battle of Caspe
DateMarch 29, 1819 – January 7, 1827
(7 years, 9 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location
Spain
Result Liberal victory, Treaty of Valladolid
Franco-Portuguese recognition of Ferdinand VIII and the devolved Cortes of Mexico
Belligerents

Spanish Conservatives

Kingdom of France

Spanish Liberals

Commanders and leaders

Ferdinand VII

Tomás de Zumalacárregui
Ferdinand VIII
Rafael del Riego
Juan Martín Díez
Vicente Genaro de Quesada
Francisco Ballesteros
Enrique MacDonnell
Strength
1846: 8,613[74]
1848: 32,000 soldiers
and marines
59,000 militia[75]
c. 34,000–60,000 soldiers[76]
Casualties and losses
1,733 killed in battle
13,283 total dead[77]
25,000 dead[78]


Floridan Civil War
Part of Gulf Slave Wars
Date1917-1924
Location
Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace delivering
Peace or Death Speech, 1949
33rd President of the United States
In office
April 1, 1945 – November 29, 1949
Vice PresidentSam Rayburn 1946-1948
Dorothy Thompson 1948-1949
Preceded byFranklin D. Roosevelt
Succeeded byDorothy Thompson
33rd Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1941 – April 1, 1945
Preceded byJohn Nance Garner
Succeeded byDavid Worth Clark
11th United States Secretary of Agriculture
In office
March 4, 1933 – September 4, 1940
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byArthur M. Hyde
Succeeded byClaude R. Wickard
Personal details
Born
Henry Agard Wallace[79]

(1888-10-07)October 7, 1888
Orient, Iowa, U.S.
DiedNovember 29, 1949(1949-11-29) (aged 61)
Dorothy Thompson
George Marshall
Succeeded byOmar Bradley
Governor of the American Zone of Occupied Germany
In office
May 8, 1945 – November 10, 1945
PresidentHarry S. Truman
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJoseph T. McNarney
Personal details
Born
Dwight David Eisenhower
Congestive heart failure
Resting placeDwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
World War II Victory Medal
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  • Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.[80]
    Manner of deathAssassination
    Resting placeHenry A. Wallace Memorial and Presidential Library
    Orient, Iowa
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouse
    (m. 1914)
    ChildrenHenry Browne Wallace
    (1915–1989)
    Jean Wallace
    (1920–2023)
    Robert Browne Wallace
    (1918–2000)
    Parent(s)Henry C. Wallace
    May Brodhead
    Alma materIowa State University
    AwardsNobel Peace Prize (1947)
    SignatureCursive signature in ink


    Emperor Dezong of Qing
    11th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
    Reign25 February 1875 – 19 March 1919
    Coronation25 February 1875
    PredecessorTongzhi Emperor
    SuccessorYongdao Emperor
    Chancellors
    See list
    Regents
    Yehenara Wanzhen
    Maternal aunt and Adoptive mother:
    Empress Dowager Cixi

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    {{Infobox country |common_name = Empire of the Romans |conventional_long_name = Roman Empire |continent = Europe |native_name = Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων
    Imperium Romanum
    Γερουσία και οι Λαοί της Ρώμης (GKLR)
    Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR)
    The Senate and the People of Rome
    |image_coat = |image_flag = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg |flag = Flags of the Ottoman Empire |flag_type = Flag |symbol = Coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire |symbol_type = Coat of arms |image_map = Iraq (orthographic projection).svg |image_map_caption = |image_map2 = Iraq - Location Map (2013) - IRQ - UNOCHA.svg |image_map2_caption = |national_motto = Αιώνιο Κράτος
    Aionio Kratos
    "The Eternal State"

    |national_anthem = Αγνή Παρθένε
    Agni Parthene
    "Holy Mary"


    March: "Μάρτιος του Βασιλείου
    Mártios tou Vasileíou
    "March of the Purple"


    Roman Empire
    Βασιλεία Ῥώμαιων
    Imperium Romanum
    Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR)
    The Senate and the People of Rome
    Flag of
    Motto: Σύγκλητος Ανθρωποι Αυτοκράτωρ
    Senate, People, Emperor
    Anthem: Αγνή Παρθένε
    Agní Parthéne
    Holy Mary



    Nikifóra kai Aiónia
    "Victorious and Everlasting"

    Capital
    and
    Constantinopolis
    41°00′49″N 28°57′18″E / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500
    Official languages
    Ethnic groups
    Ethnic history of the Roman Empire
    Religion
    Demonym(s)Roman
    Government
    • Emperor
    Constantine XV
    • Proxenos
    Phosphoros Liapos
    • Strategos
    Phillip Moritz-Kantakouzenos
    LegislatureSenate
    Adilion
    Exedron
    Establishment
    30–2 BCE
    330
    395
    476
    1261
    1368
    1533-1549; 1690-1711
    1899-1921
    1929-1950
    Area
    • 
    72,936 km2 (28,161 sq mi) (133rd)
    Population
    • Estimate
    16,800,000 (71st)
    • 2009 census
    15,380,412
    • Density
    603.2/km2 (1,562.3/sq mi)
    GDP (PPP)estimate
    • Total
    901,870 (31st)
    • Per capita
    46,314 (22nd)
    GDP (nominal)estimate
    • Total
    839,306 (34th)
    • Per capita
    40,472 (29th)
    Gini38
    medium (44)
    HDISteady 0.790
    high (61st)
    CurrencySestertius, Aureus, Solidus, Nomisma, Hyperpyron, Caesar (1930-1950)
    Time zoneUTC+3 (FET)
    Driving sideright
    Internet TLD.ro
    Location of
    The Roman Empire in 117 AD, at its greatest extent at the time of Trajan's death (with its vassals in pink).
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