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Jordan Modern History

Jordan is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Amman, Jordan has a population of 10,203,145 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Only 16 years old, Hussein became king of Jordan in 1952; for a whole 47 years he was then in power. He governed domestic politics with an iron… Read More »

Kazakhstan Modern History

Kazakhstan is a country located in Central Asia. With the capital city of Astana, Kazakhstan has a population of 18,776,718 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Kazakhstan became a Union republic in the Soviet Union in 1936. In the 1930s, forced collectivization of the livestock management led to the death of hundreds of thousands… Read More »

Kenya Modern History

Kenya is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya has a population of 53,771,307 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Kenya became independent in 1963. The liberation hero Jomo Kenyatta ruled the country until his death in 1978, when Daniel arap Moi took over as president. In the… Read More »

Kiribati Modern History

Kiribati is a country located in Micronesia. With the capital city of Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati has a population of 119,460 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Kiribati became independent from the UK in 1979 and Ieremia Tabai became the country’s first president. He was re-elected several times and sat on the post until 1991,… Read More »

Kosovo Modern History

Kosovo is a country located in Eastern Europe. With the capital city of Pristina, Kosovo has a population of 1,810,377 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Kosovo was a self-governing province within Serbia in Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War, but self-government was abolished in the early 1990s. Kosovo Albanian guerrillas… Read More »

Kuwait Modern History

Kuwait is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Kuwait City, Kuwait has a population of 4,270,582 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After independence, Kuwait was given a constitution and a parliament. At the same time, the oil industry grew rapidly. Oil revenues provided Kuwaiti citizens with work and… Read More »

Kyrgyzstan Modern History

Kyrgyzstan is a country located in Central Asia. With the capital city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan has a population of 6,524,206 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Kyrgyzstan was a sub-republic of the Soviet Union 1922–1991. During most of that period, Kyrgyz culture and lifestyle were suppressed. Only under Soviet leader Michail Gorbachev in the… Read More »

Laos Modern History

Laos is a country located in Southeastern Asia. With the capital city of Vientiane, Laos has a population of 7,275,571 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Independent Laos began its existence in 1953 with just over 20 years of civil war. On one side stood those who were friendly to the old colonial power… Read More »

Latvia Modern History

Latvia is a country located in Northern Europe. With the capital city of Riga, Latvia has a population of 1,886,209 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The Soviet era brought a severe political repression. When it eased in the 1980s, a people front was formed that demanded independence, multi-party systems and market economy. In… Read More »

Lebanon Modern History

Lebanon is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Beirut, Lebanon has a population of 6,825,456 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. At the beginning of Lebanon’s independent history, the balance of power established in the National Pact seemed to work, but there were contradictions between different groups beneath the… Read More »

Lesotho Modern History

Lesotho is a country located in Southern Africa. With the capital city of Maseru, Lesotho has a population of 2,142,260 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The first years after Lestoho’s independence in 1966 were marked by political contradictions, coups and periods of military rule. From 1965, the policy was dominated by Leabua Jonathan,… Read More »

Liberia Modern History

Liberia is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Monrovia, Liberia has a population of 5,057,692 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The years between 1980 and 2003 were the darkest in Liberia’s history, characterized by war and economic mismanagement. A large part of the population saw their existence beaten… Read More »

Libya Modern History

Libya is a country located in Northern Africa. With the capital city of Tripoli, Libya has a population of 6,871,303 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Muammar Gaddafi took power in Libya in 1969. The eccentric leader made huge changes in the country. He pursued a radical foreign policy and fought, among others, Israel… Read More »

Liechtenstein Modern History

Liechtenstein is a country located in Western Europe. With the capital city of Vaduz, Liechtenstein has a population of 38,139 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. During the post-war period, Liechtenstein has developed from an agricultural nation to a prosperous industry and an important financial center. Politics has been completely dominated by two bourgeois… Read More »

Lithuania Modern History

Lithuania is a country located in Northern Europe. With the capital city of Vilnius, Lithuania has a population of 2,722,300 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The political repression during the Soviet era (1944–1990) created a strong national resistance in Lithuania. In the late 1980s, the Lithuanian Communist leaders broke with the mother party… Read More »

Luxembourg Modern History

Luxembourg is a country located in Western Europe. With the capital city of Luxembourg, Luxembourg has a population of 625,989 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In the early 1900s, Luxembourg developed from a poor agricultural nation to an industrial nation with the steel as its base. During the second half of the century,… Read More »

Macedonia Modern History

North Macedonia is a country located in Southern Europe. With the capital city of Skopje, North Macedonia has a population of 2,022,558 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Northern Macedonia proclaimed its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, under the name of Macedonia. Soon there was a conflict between the two dominant groups, Macedonia and… Read More »

Madagascar Modern History

Madagascar is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Antananarivo, Madagascar has a population of 27,691,029 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Coups and popular revolts – sometimes in collaboration – have characterized Madagascar’s politics during independence after 1960. There have also been frictions between the residents of the interior… Read More »

Malawi Modern History

Malawi is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Lilongwe, Malawi has a population of 19,129,963 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In 1964, Malawi became an independent republic. After independence, Prime Minister Hastings Kamuzu Banda gathered all political and economic power to his own person, and banned all opposition.… Read More »

Malaysia Modern History

Malaysia is a country located in Southeastern Asia. With the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has a population of 32,366,010 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. From independence from the colonial power of the United Kingdom in 1957 and more than 60 years on, Malaysia was ruled by the National Alliance (BN), with… Read More »

Maldives Modern History

Maldives is a country located in Southern Asia. With the capital city of Male, Maldives has a population of 540,555 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The British Protectorate of Maldives became an independent nation on July 26, 1965. Three years later, a constitution was adopted which made the country a republic. In 1978,… Read More »

Mali Modern History

Mali is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Bamako, Mali has a population of 20,250,844 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Mali became independent from colonial power France in 1960. Soon thereafter, Mali became a socialist one-party state. In 1968, Moussa Traoré took power in a military coup. In… Read More »

Malta Modern History

Malta is a country located in Southern Europe. With the capital city of Valletta, Malta has a population of 441,554 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After World War II, the British colony of Malta was granted increased autonomy. Dom Mintoff, who led the Labor Party, became prime minister in 1955. His government wanted… Read More »

Marshall Islands Modern History

Marshall Islands is a country located in Micronesia. With the capital city of Majuro, Marshall Islands has a population of 59,201 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The Marshall Islands were managed from the end of World War II until 1986 (formally 1990) by the United States under UN supervision. Between 1946 and 1958,… Read More »

Mauritania Modern History

Mauritania is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Nouakchott, Mauritania has a population of 4,649,669 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Mauritania became independent from colonial power France on November 28, 1960. The history of the young nation is dominated by military coups, dictatorial rule, border conflicts with neighboring… Read More »

Mauritius Modern History

Mauritius is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Port Louis, Mauritius has a population of 1,271,779 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. By the independence of the British in 1968, Mauritius already had a functioning multi-party system dominated by a couple of strong personalities that would affect the country… Read More »

Mexico Modern History

Mexico is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Mexico City, Mexico has a population of 128,932,764 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Mexico was ruled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during most of the 20th century. The country was modernized after the Second World War. An oil boom… Read More »

Micronesia Modern History

Micronesia is a country located in Micronesia. With the capital city of Palikir, Micronesia has a population of 112,640 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. During World War II, fierce fighting was fought in the archipelago of the Carolinians, which includes the Micronesian Federation, between the United States and Japan. When the United States… Read More »

Moldova Modern History

Moldova is a country located in Eastern Europe. With the capital city of Chisinau, Moldova has a population of 4,033,974 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Moldova’s modern history is characterized by its geographical proximity to Romania and the Soviet Union / Russia. In 1940, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova was established. With… Read More »

Monaco Modern History

Monaco is a country located in Western Europe. With the capital city of Monaco, Monaco has a population of 39,253 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Prince Rainier III took office in 1949 and put the Principality on the map internationally when in 1956 he married American movie star Grace Kelly. Monaco was given… Read More »