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Christian states
- TuvaluThree thousand years ago, Polynesians began a great migration across the Pacific Ocean. They arrived in what is now Tuvalu using double-hulled sailing canoes…
- MaltaThe Maltese archipelago has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, during the Mesolithic period. Archaeological discoveries at Latnija Cave by researcher…
- GreenlandIn the summer of 986, a Norwegian exile named Erik the Red set sail from Iceland with his family and thralls. He explored an icy land to the northwest that…
- Georgia (country)The oldest traces of archaic humans in what is now Georgia date from approximately 1.8 million years ago. These remains belong to the Dmanisi hominins, a…
- FinlandThe first people arrived in the land that is now Finland around 8500 BC. They were hunter-gatherers who used stone tools to survive the harsh environment…
- Vatican CityThe name Vatican first appeared in the time of the Roman Republic. It described a marshy area on the west bank of the Tiber River.
- ArgentinaA Venetian map from 1536 bears the word Argentina, marking one of the earliest written uses of the name for this South American region.
- DenmarkThe northern Jutland peninsula meets an archipelago of 406 islands in Northern Europe. A circle enclosing the same area as Denmark would be 358 kilometers in…
- Faroe IslandsThe Faroe Islands rise from the North Atlantic Ocean as a rugged archipelago of 18 major islands. Their terrain is dominated by basalt cliffs and deep fjords…
- MoldaviaThe name Moldavia emerged from the Moldova River, yet its linguistic roots remain a subject of historical debate. A legend recorded in Descriptio Moldaviae…
- EnglandThe name England derives from the Angles, a Germanic tribe that settled in Great Britain during the 5th and 6th centuries.
- GreeceThe year 776 BC marks the first Olympic Games, a moment that signaled the end of the Greek Dark Ages and the beginning of recorded history for these…
- IcelandThe island of Iceland sits directly on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a geological fault line where the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate drift apart.
- Bible BeltAmerican journalist H. L. Mencken first used the phrase Bible Belt in 1924. He wrote those words inside a column for the Chicago Daily Tribune that year.