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    Protectorate of Swaziland to King Sobhuza II and one of his younger wives, Ntfombi Tfwala. He was crowned as Mswati III, Ingwenyama and King of Swaziland, on 25...
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    1°02′28″E / 45.9280°N 1.0410°E / 45.9280; 1.0410 Oradour-sur-Glane On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne...
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    also involved. All of these were members of the Pacific War Council. From 1944 the French commando group Corps Léger d'Intervention also took part in resistance...
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    capitaine de Hautecloque au général Leclerc?, Editions Complexe, 2000, p.243 Mesquida, Evelyn (2011). La Nueve, 24 août 1944 : ces Républicains espagnols...
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    handed over the royal duties to him, not when he was proclaimed king. Swaziland became independent from the United Kingdom in 1968. British India until...
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    rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. Members provided military intelligence on German defences known as the Atlantic...
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    Vichy France (category 1944 disestablishments in Europe)
    relative au rétablissement de la légalité républicaine sur le territoire continental – Version consolidée au 10 août 1944" [Law of 9 August 1944 Concerning...
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  • Turkestan, officially the East Turkestan Republic, existed from November 12, 1944 to December 22, 1949, when it was conquered by China.  Estonia was incorporated...
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    Government of Vichy France (category 1944 in France)
    1944 relative au rétablissement de la légalité républicaine sur le territoire continental – Version consolidée au 10 août 1944" [Law of 9 August 1944...
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    so-called High Commission Territories of Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland (modern Botswana, Lesotho, and eSwatini) had autonomous governments under...
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