POSTINDEPENDENCE

Meaning of POSTINDEPENDENCE in English

adj.

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SOUTH AMERICA — Continent, Western Hemisphere. The world's fourth largest continent, it is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the northwest, the Atlantic …
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PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER — or Pramudya Ananta Tur born Feb. 20, 1925, Blora, Java, Indon. Javanese novelist and short-story writer. While imprisoned by the …
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OUAGADOUGOU — City (pop., 1993 est.: 690,000), capital of Burkina Faso, western Africa. It was the capital of the historic Mossi kingdom …
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ZIMBABWE, FLAG OF
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YEMEN, FLAG OF — horizontally striped red-white-black national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is approximately 2 to 3. In 1918, after decades of Ottoman domination, …
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YEMEN
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: WORLD-AFFAIRS: SPOTLIGHT — Spotlight: Mexico, the Painful Changes Rarely had a country turned from a showcase into a basket case in such a …
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WEST INDIES — Colin Graham Clarke Spanish Indias Occidentales, French Indes Occidentales, Dutch West-indi crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 …
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UTTAR PRADESH — constituent state of India, lying for the most part in the upper valley of the Ganges River in the northern …
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TRANSCAUCASIA — Russian Zakavkazye, a small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: …
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TANZANIA: THE PEOPLE — The people: Tanzania mainland Ethnic composition Tanzania is extremely heterogeneous, with more than 120 different indigenous African peoples as well …
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SOUTH AMERICA — fourth largest of the world's continents. It is the southern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New …
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SAVIMBI, JONAS MALHEIRO — born Aug. 3, 1934, Portuguese Angola Angolan politician, the leader of a long-continuing guerrilla insurgency against the postindependence government of …
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LATIN AMERICA, HISTORY OF — history of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th …
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KOUROUMA, AHMADOU — born , after 1927, Boundiali, Cte d'Ivoire African novelist and playwright, one of the most prominent postindependence disillusionist writers. Kourouma …
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KHAIR-EDDINE, MOHAMMED — born 1941, Tafraout, Morocco French-language poet and novelist who was a leader among postindependence Moroccan writers seeking a new and …
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KAZAKSTAN — also spelled Kazakhstan, officially Republic of Kazakstan, Kazakh Qazaqstan Respublikas country of Central Asia. It is bounded on the northwest …
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KAUNDA, KENNETH — born April 28, 1924, Lubwa, near Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia] in full Kenneth David Kaunda politician who led Zambia …
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JAYEWARDENE, J.R. — born Sept. 17, 1906, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] died Nov. 1, 1996, Colombo, Sri Lanka in full Junius Richard …
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GUYANA — officially Co-operative Republic of Guyana country located in the northeastern corner of South America. It is bordered by Venezuela to …
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GEORGIA — The Deep South. one of the 13 original states of the United States of America, lying in the South Atlantic …
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ESTONIA — officially Republic of Estonia, Estonian Eesti, or Eesti Vabariik, country in northeastern Europe, the northernmost of the three Baltic states. …
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CONGO — officially Democratic Republic of the Congo, also called Congo Free State or Independent State of the Congo (18851908), Belgian Congo …
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CAPE VERDE — Praia, capital of Cape Verde officially Republic of Cape Verde, Portuguese Repblica de Cabo Verde, island republic in the central …
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BURUNDI — officially Republic of Burundi, French Rpublique du Burundi, Rundi Republika y'u Burundi, landlocked republic in east-central Africa south of the …
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BURKINA FASO — byname Burkina, formerly Republic of Upper Volta, French Rpublique de Haute-Volta, landlocked state in western Africa with an area of …
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, HISTORY OF — history of the area from ancient and medieval times to the present. Additional reading William G. Lockwood, European Moslems: Economy …
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BIHAR — state of India. It is bounded by Nepal on the north and by the states of West Bengal on the …
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BETI, MONGO — born June 30, 1932, Mbalmayo, Cameroon also called Eza Boto, pseudonyms of Alexandre Biyidi Cameroonian novelist and political essayist. A …
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ALGERIA
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AFRICA — in ancient Roman history, the first North African territory of Rome, at times roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia. It was …
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