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Jean During
Country in the Caucasus of Central Asia of 86,600 km², with an estimated population of 7·83 million (2000). Since 1828 Azerbaijan has consisted of two parts; one forms a province of Iran, whilst the other, which was a Soviet socialist republic from 1920...
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Country in south-eastern Europe. Located in the Balkan peninsula, it has an area of 51,209 km2 and a population of 3,791,662 (2013 census, preliminary results). It is believed that a medieval Bosnian state was constituted at the end of the 8th century. In the beginning, the rulers of Bosnia were called ban: the first called by the name ban was Ban Borić and later on, the famous Kulin Ban; and after the coronation of Ban Tvrtko I Kotromanić in ...
