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Sub-Saharan Africa 1914
Maritz Rebellion
Just twelve years after the Second Boer War, many Afrikaners were still hostile to Britain and saw Germany as a ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1915
Early German Victories in Africa
The Maritz rebellion forced South Africa to postpone its invasion of German South West Africa, allowing the Germans to launch ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1915
South West Africa Campaign
The defeat of the last of Maritz’s Boer rebels in early 1915 allowed the British dominion of South Africa ...
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Australasia 2018
Australasia Today
Since 2003 Australasia has seen continued political stability, with no significant military events occurring after the 2006 Fijian coup. The ...
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South America 2018
South America Today
In 2016 Colombia finally negotiated an end to its five decades-long civil war. Meanwhile, with falling oil prices undermining Venezuela ...
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North America 2018
North America Today
In 2015 the US and Cuba normalized relations, finally bringing an end to the last significant Cold War rivalry in ...
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East Asia 2018
East Asia Today
China's economy continued with its impressive growth into the late-2010s but in 2017 international tensions in East Asia escalated ...
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the Arctic 2018
The Arctic Today
The past few years have seen the continued decline of Arctic sea ice, with sea ice extents reaching record lows ...
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Omniatlas in the Media
Omniatlas on BBC: The changing face of Europe
The BBC is making use of Omniatlas maps to show the changing face of Europe over the past 150 years ...
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Russia 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The signing of the Belavezha Accords and secession of Russia ended all hopes of preserving Soviet power. On 25 December ...