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What in the World Collected by C.A. Venturi |
While the United States of America focused inward upon its Civil War, life went on throughout the rest of the world. The following index allows you to link to histories of other nations in the period immediately prior to and during the war.
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To go to a specific
country, select that nation from the list below. Beware -- the names reflect
nineteenth century usage!
These smaller links will move you down this page to a specific regional section of the
index:
ABYSSINIA
Algeria (see French Algeria)
Angola (see Portuguese West Africa)
ASHANTI
AZORES
Barbary Coast (see Libya)
BASUTOLAND
BELGIAN CONGO
Bourbon Island (see Reunion Island)
BRITISH SOMALILAND
Buganda (see Uganda)
CAMEROON
CANARY ISLANDS
CAPE COLONY
Cape of Good Hope (see Cape Colony)
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS
Coast of the Five and Six Stripes (see Ivory Coast)
Colony of French West Africa (see Senegal)
COMORO ISLANDS
Congo (see Belgian or French Congo)
DAHOMEY
EGYPT
EGYPTIAN SOUDAN
Empire of Al-Hajj Umar (see Tukolor)
Ethiopia (see Abyssinia)
FRENCH ALGERIA
French Congo (see French Equatorial Africa)
FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA
FRENCH GUINEA
FRENCH SOMALILAND
FRENCH SOUDAN
French West Africa (see French Guinea)
GAMBIA
GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA
GOLD COAST
Guinea (see Spanish, French or Portuguese Guinea)
Isle de France (see Mauritius)
IVORY COAST
KENYA
LAGOS
Lake Victoria (see Victoria Nyanza)
LIBERIA
LIBYA
MADAGASCAR
MADEIRA
Maghrib-el-Aska (see Morocco)
MAURITANIA
MAURITIUS
MOROCCO
MOZAMBIQUE
MUSCAT
Musqat (see Muscat)
NATAL
NYAM-NYAM
NYASSALAND
OBOCK
Oman (see Muscat and Oman, Asia)
ORANGE FREE STATE
PERIM ISLAND
PORTUGUESE GUINEA
PORTUGUESE WEST AFRICA
REUNION ISLAND
RIO DE ORO
SAINT HELENA
Saint Thomas (see Saint Tome)
SAINT TOME
SENEGAL
SIERRA LEONE
Somaliland (see British or French Somaliland)
SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC
SPANISH GUINEA
Suday (see Egyptian or French Soudan)
SUNUSIYYA
TANGANYIKA
TOGOLAND
Tooth Coast (see Ivory Coast)
Transvaal (see South African Republic)
Tripoli (see Sunusiyya)
TRISTAN DA CUNHA
TUKOLOR, CALIPHATE OF
TUNIS
Tunisia (see Tunis)
UGANDA
VICTORIA NYANZA
WALVIS BAY
Walvisch Bay (see Walvis Bay)
West Africa (see Portuguese or French West Africa, or Colony of French West Africa)
ZAMBESI RIVER
ZANZIBAR
ZULULAND
Asia
ADEN
Adjem (see Arabia)
AFGHANISTAN
Annam (see French Indo-China)
Arabi (see Arabia)
ARABIA
Arakan (see British Burma)
ARMENIA
AUSTRALIA
BALI
BORNEO
BRITISH BURMA
BRITISH MALAYA
Burma (see British Burma)
CAMBODIA
CELEBES ISLANDS
CEYLON
CHANDERNAGOR
CHINA
Chosen (see Korea)
CIRCASIA
COCHIN-CHINA
COCOS ISLANDS
DAMAO
DIU
Dutch East Indies (see Netherlands East Indies)
EAST INDIA COMPANY
Farther India (see Cochin China)
FIJI ISLANDS
FORMOSA
French India (see Pondichery, Karikal, Mahe, Yanoan, and Chandemagor)
FRENCH INDO-CHINA
FRENCH SOCIETY ISLANDS
Friendly Islands (see Tonga Islands)
GAMBIER ISLANDS
GEORGIA
GUAM
Hawaii (see Sandwich Islands)
HONG KONG
INDIA
Indo-China (see Cochin China, French Indo-China)
Irak (see Arabia)
JAPAN
JAVA
KARIKAL
Keeling Islands (see Cocos Islands)
KOREA
KOWLOON
KURDISTAN
Kuwait (see State of Kuwait)
LADRONE ISLANDS
LABUAN
LEBANON
LOYALTY ISLANDS
MACAO
MAHE
MALACCA
Malay Peninsula (see Straits Settlements)
MALAYAN ARCHIPELAGO
MANCHURIA
Marianne Islands (see Ladrone Islands)
MARQUEZAS ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS
Mesopotamia (see Arabia)
MOLUCCAS ISLANDS
MONGOLIA
Muang Thai (see Siam)
Muscat (see Oman)
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES
NEPAL
NEW CALEDONIA
NEW GUINEA
NEW ZEALAND
OMAN
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
PALAU ISLANDS
PALESTINE
Paumoto Archipelago (see Tuamoto Archipelago)
Pegu (see British Burma)
PENANG
PERSIA
PHILLIPINE ISLANDS
PITCAIRN ISLAND
PONDICHERY
SAMOA
SAMOS ISLAND
SANDWICH ISLANDS
SARAWAK
SIAM
SIBERIA
SINGAPORE
SINKIANG
Society Islands (see French Society Islands)
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Spice Islands (see Moluccas Islands)
STATE OF KUWAIT
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
SUMATRA
SYRIA
Taiwan (see Formosa)
TASMANIA
Tenasserim (see British Burma)
TIBET
TIMOR ISLAND
TONGA ISLANDS
TUAMOTO ARCHIPELAGO
Turkey (see Ottoman Empire)
TURKESTAN
YANOAN
Europe
ALAND ISLANDS
ALBANIA
ANDORRA
ARCTIC REGIONS
Austria-Hungary (see Austrian Empire)
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE
BADEN
Bavaria (see Bayern Palitinate)
Bayern (see Bayern Palitinate)
BAYERN PALITINATE
BELGIUM
BOHEMIA
BOSNIA
BULGARIA
Cis-Leithan Monarchy (see Austrian Empire)
Corse (see Corsica)
CORSICA
CRETE
CROATIA
CYPRUS
Czernagora (see Montenegro)
DALMATIA
DENMARK
Eire (see Ireland)
Espania (see Spain)
ESTONIA
FAEROE ISLANDS
FINLAND
FRANCE
GALLICIA
German Bavaria (see Bayern Palitinate)
GERMANIC CONFEDERATION
Germany (see German Confederation)
Gib (see Gibralter)
GIBRALTER
GREAT BRITAIN
GREECE
HANOVER
HERZEGOVINA
HESSIA-DARMSTADT
Hispania (see Spain)
Holland (see Netherlands)
HOLSTEIN
HUNGARY
ICELAND
IONIAN ISLANDS
IRELAND
ITALY
Karadagh (see Montenegro)
KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES
Krete (see Crete)
LATVIA
LIECHTENSTEIN
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
MALTA
MECKLENBURG
Moldavia (see Roumania)
MONOCO
MONTENEGRO
MORAVIA
NAPLES
Napoli (see Naples)
NASSAU
NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
OLDENBURG
Osterreich (see Austrian Empire)
PAPAL STATES
POLAND
PORTUGAL
PRUSSIA
Roma (see Rome)
Romania (see Roumania)
ROME
ROUMANIA
Rumania (see Roumania)
RUSSIA
Sachsen (see Saxony)
SAN MARINO
SARDINIA
SAXONY
Schleswig (see Slesvig)
Serbia (see Servia)
SERVIA
Sicily (see Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)
SLESVIG
SPAIN
SPITZBERGEN
Suomen Tasavalta (see Finland)
Svalbard (see Spitzbergen)
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
Thuringen (see Thuringia)
THURINGIA
WALES
WALLACHIA
WURTTEMBURG
North America
BAHAMAS
BARBADOS
BERMUDAS
BRITISH WEST INDIES
CANADA
CUBA
Dominican Republic (see Santo Domingo)
GREENLAND
HAITI
Hayti (see Haiti)
Hispaniola (see Haiti and Santo Domingo)
JAMAICA
LABRADOR
MEXICO
PORTO RICO
Puerto Rico(see Porto Rico)
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW ISLAND
San Domingo (see Santo Domingo)
SANTO DOMINGO
TRINIDAD
South America
ARGENTINA
BOLIVIA
BRAZIL
BRITISH GUIANA
BRITISH HONDURAS
Buenos Aires (see Argentina)
Cayenne (see French Guiana)
CHILE
Colombia (see New Granada)
COSTA RICA
CURACAO
Demerara (see British Guiana)
DUTCH GUIANA
Dutch West Indies (see Netherlands West Indies)
ECUADOR
FALKLAND ISLANDS
FRENCH GUIANA
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
Granadian Confederation (see New Granada)
GUATEMALA
Guiana (see British, Dutch or French Guiana)
HONDURAS
JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS
NETHERLANDS WEST INDIES
NEW GRANADA
NICARAGUA
PANAMA
PARAGUAY
PERU
SALVADOR
URUGUAY
VENEZUELA
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