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| [Country] proved generally faithful to Ottoman rule following the end of the resistance led by Skanderbeg, and accepted Islam more easily than their neighbors. | |
| According to the Bible, the name '[Country]' was given to the patriarch Jacob after he successfully wrestled with an angel of God. | |
| [Country] was never formally colonized. Muhammad Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region. | |
| [Country] also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. | |
| In 1787, a plan was established to settle some of London's 'Black Poor' in [country] in what was called the 'Province of Freedom'. | |
| After the success of invading Poland, Charles decided to make an invasion attempt of Russia which ended in a decisive Russian victory at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. | |
| Groups and musicians including Horslips, Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy incorporated elements of traditional music into contemporary rock music and, during the 1970s and 1980s . . . | |
| According to the last census (2000) 94.6% of the total population are Buddhists of the Theravada tradition. Muslims are the second largest religious group in [country] at 4.6%. | |
| Many wars occurred between the colonial powers and the various nation-states in the area including the 1806 Ashanti-Fante War . . . | |
| On his fourth and the final voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands on the coast of [Country]. | |
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| The country is situated at the meeting point of the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, leading to considerable seismic and volcanic activity. There are 14 volcanoes in [country] | |
| From the 17th century to the 19th century, the land of current-day [Country] was ruled by the Kingdom of Dahomey. The region became known as the Slave Coast during the early 17th . | |
| The nation has a continental climate with very harsh winters in the central highlands, the glaciated northeast (around Nuristan) and the Wakhan Corridor . . . | |
| An overwhelming majority of [country residents] have their marriages arranged by their parents and other respected family members, with the consent of the bride and groom. | |
| Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana would be noted by National Geographic for being the first to find the shipwrecked John F. Kennedy and his crew of the PT-109. | |
| [Country] was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, part of the Mali Empire; parts of this kingdom persisted until the eighteenth century . . . | |
| Presently, Islam is the second largest religion in [country], accounting for approximately 2.3% of the total population. After their expulsion in 1492, Muslims did not . . . | |
| Important birds include ibises, ospreys, kingfishers, and the yellow-orange turpial, the national bird. Notable mammals include the Giant Anteater, jaguar, and the capybara . . . | |
| Ian Fleming, who lived in [country], repeatedly used the island as a setting in the James Bond novels, including Live and Let Die, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only . . . | |
| A monarchy throughout most of its history, [country] was ruled by the Shah dynasty of kings from 1768, when Prithvi Narayan Shah unified its many small kingdoms. | |
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