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States and territories established in 1947
- Free Territory of TriesteThe Free Territory of Trieste occupied a narrow strip of land around the Gulf of Trieste in the northern Adriatic Sea. It stretched from Duino in the north…
- Socialist Republic of RomaniaOn the 6th of March 1945, a new pro-Soviet government took power in Bucharest after mass demonstrations by communist sympathizers and intense political…
- Dominion of PakistanOn the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions were set up in India. The Indian Independence Act 1947 declared…
- BizoneWorld War II ended with Germany divided into four distinct occupation zones. The Americans controlled the southern lands while the British held the western…
- Dominion of IndiaLord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 to find violence between Hindus and Muslims raging in Punjab and Bengal.
- AssamThe first dated mention of the region comes from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea in the 1st century. Ptolemy's Geographia followed this reference in the…
- PakistanIn the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan, stone tools dating to approximately 2 million years ago mark some of the earliest human activity in South Asia.
- Polish People's RepublicIn February 1945, the Red Army occupied the entire country of Poland. Joseph Stalin presented his Western allies with a fait accompli at the Yalta Conference.
- Trust Territory of the Pacific IslandsSpain first claimed the islands that would become the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Germany established competing claims over these same islands in…
- West BengalThe state stretches from the snow-capped peaks of Sandakfu to the muddy banks of the Bay of Bengal. Sandakfu rises 3,636 meters above sea level as the…
- IndiaModern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago. Their long occupation, predominantly in isolation as…