Ptolemy ruled over Egypt, southern Syria (known as Coele Syria), and various territories on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

The driving force behind all this was French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who colluded with the heads of Europe s southern countries. French banks, which were overly exposed to southern European government bonds, were key beneficiaries of the rescue packages.

In the French and Indian War, British forces seized Canada from the French, but the francophone population remained politically isolated from the southern colonies.

The French economy, in turn, is suffering because its customers in southern Europe are in trouble.

The Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on 28 June 1495 between a French garrison in recently conquered southern Italy and the allied forces of Spain and Naples which were attempting to reconquer these territories.

However, although the battle was a decisive French victory from a tactical perspective, it did not prevent the allies from driving the French from southern Italy.

The streets of many French cities vibrated with Southern Mediterranean emotions, which stood in stark contrast to the apathy that surrounded the French national team s game that night.

In 1910 Gabon became one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa, a federation that survived until 1959.

In 1900 the region was merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company to form the colony of Southern Nigeria.

On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern Cameroons united with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

The strengthening exchange rate is putting additional pressure on the rickety southern European and French economies, undermining their already low competitiveness.

When Japan responded by taking over southern French Indochina, the US retaliated by imposing an embargo on oil exports to Japan.

Condemns Israel's continued occupation of the Arab Palestinian territories, the Syrian Golan, and parts of southern Lebanon, including the Shabaa Farms, as an obstacle to the sustainable development of the Arab citizens of the occupied Arab territories.

Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French speaking southern region of Wallonia.

The Battle of Cerignola was fought on April 28, 1503, between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, near Bari in Southern Italy.

The EU demands it be simultaneously introduced into all three French Pacific territories following the formally expressed wish of their Governments.23

After one season at the southern club he spent five seasons at Paris Saint Germain, where he won the French League Championship in 1994, the French Cup in 1993 and 1995 and the French League Cup in 1995 as well as the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1996.

The Black Sea Germans ( ) or Ukrainian Germans are ethnic Germans who left their homelands in the 18th and 19th centuries, and settled in territories off the north coast of the Black Sea, mostly in the territories of the southern Russian Empire (including modern day Ukraine).

Ethnic groups Ethnic groups include Akan 42.1 , Voltaiques or Gur 17.6 , Northern Mandes 16.5 , Krous 11 , Southern Mandes 10 , other 2.8 (includes 30,000 Lebanese and 45,000 French 2004).

This combined with the intervention in Vietnam set the stage for further French influence in China leading up to a sphere of influence over parts of Southern China.

Austria receives from Spain, Spanish territories in Italy the Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Sardinia as well as the Southern Netherlands and from France Freiburg and Landau.

Israel must end all colonial settlement planning and activities and withdraw from the territories it has occupied since 1967 in Palestine, the Syrian Golan and the Shaba'a farms area in southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, as discussed in paragraph 42 above, New Caledonia's currency, the Pacific franc, could be replaced by the euro within two years if all three French Pacific Territories concur.

However, according to the Minister for Overseas Territories, that is no longer possible, owing to the fact that some provisions of the amendment regarding French Polynesia are no longer appropriate.

At the beginning of the 16th century, during the guerilla war between the French and the Spanish over possession of Southern Italy, the city was the theater of a historical victory of Italian knights over French prisoners, in what became known as the Challenge of Barletta (13 February 1503).

The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district.

Southern Resilience

Southern Sudan

Separatist movements are also thriving in southern Thailand and the southern Philippines.

The southern fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialoides ) is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere.

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With the promulgation of the 1958 French Constitution, under the Government of General de Gaulle, the colonial territories were given the chance to embark on the process that would eventually lead them to independence.

Europe s Southern Future

Consider southern Europe.

Kamarina (, ) was an ancient city on the southern coast of Sicily in southern Italy.

The Grand Duchy of Berg () was established by Napoleon Bonaparte after his victory at the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz on territories between the French Empire at the Rhine river and the German Kingdom of Westphalia.

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