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Above: Map showing the location of Chechnya The Chechen war has been fought for a long time. It started even before the Russian Union broke in December 1991; this led to division of the union into many smaller countries. The Chechen Republic was at war ever since September 1991 in order to gain status as an independent state. Chechnya was finally recognized as an independent state in the year 1995. There were two wars the first one from 1991 to 1993, the ... Read More

Above: Map of Ireland The uneasy calm in Northern Ireland began to break by the middle of the 1960's. Liberal Unionists were far from happy with Protestants remaining in power. Roman Catholics, inspired by the civil rights agitation of the Afro-Americans once more began to find their voice. In 1968 Londonderry and Belfast saw outbreaks of sporadic violence between the two sects. Above: Anti-Treaty IRA troops walking in Dublin Guerilla tactics were undertaken by a newly revived wing of the IRA ... Read More

Above: Map showing the border between Finland and Russia In 1917 the rule of the Tsars came to an end in Russia. With the Bolsheviks coming to power there, Finland became tensed. The middle class apprehended the fear of socialist rule while the workers of Finland took this opportunity to break out into a general strike on 14th November 1917. It was so successful that within two days they gained control of nearly most of the country. Above: White Guard ... Read More

Above: Map during the First Balkan War The Balkan League consisted of Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro. The members of the aforesaid league broke into conflict with the Ottoman Empire. This came to be termed as the First Balkan War. Above: Trench in the battlefield used by Turkish troops as defense against enemy fires during the war at Macedonia Russia in the spring of 1912 took the initiative in forming the league. Russia's objective was to take away Macedonia from Turkey, ... Read More

Above: Historical Map of Ireland (click map to enlarge) In 1916 took place the Easter Rising or Easter Rebellion in Ireland. It was a rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, headed by Pearse and Clarke against the British Government in Ireland and started on Easter Monday (21st April) in Dublin. Above: People dashing in fright during the general strike in Dublin (1913) The Brotherhood was revolutionary society within the nationalist organization of Irish Volunteers. The latter had a large following of about ... Read More

Above: Map during Trablusgarp Savasi In Italy this war between Turkey and Italy was known as Guerra di Libia or The Libyan War and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savasi. It was a conflict between the Ottoman Turks and Italy. Lasting from 29th September to 18th October it is also known in history as The Tripolitan War. Above: Italian soldiers firing against enemy Turks at Tripoli Libya at that time consisted of the Turkish provinces of Tripolitania and Cyremaoca together with Rhodes Island ... Read More

Above: Map showing the borders between Poland and Czech Republic, and other countries of Central Europe (click map to enlarge) The Post World War I saw the outbreak of hostilities between Poland and Czechoslovakia over Teschen. It was an area rich in many ways - iron and textile industries, strategic rail connections and above all coalfields of Silesia. On 5th November 1918 the two countries formally agreed upon a borderline but neither was serious about abiding by it. Within a month, on ... Read More

Above: Map during the Civil War of Russia A division arose between the Bolsheviks or Communists and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries over the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia had made sizeable land concessions to Germany. The LSR left the coalition. There were two main groups opposed to Lenin. Above: Picture of the White Army The non-Bolshevik left was annoyed with Lenin for having dissolved the Constituent Assembly and the White Rightists had their own grievances to grudge. ... Read More