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Perhaps you like to see how older world globes show the political boundaries of their times. It is fascinating to see how countries and cities have changed their names over the decades, and the results of wars that have moved boundaries. Some people collect globes because they often show the tracks and routes that explorers took as they learned about our planet.
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The following dates will help you . These dates were compiled from Internet and book sources by Kate Register of Rice, Virginia. This is a work in progress, and should not be quoted without verification. Remember, globe manufacturers did not always change the names of countries and boundaries immediately. To learn more about the art of collecting antique and vintage globes, visit OMNITERRUM. COM - - the best web site on the topic!
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Lots of globe/map sites are also listed on: http: //www. The journeys of explorers of the ocean, land and space can be found on vintage and antique world globes. Here, the explorations of Amundsen, Scott and Byrd to the South Pole are recorded. Share photos of world globes in your collection: Globe Collectors' Blog. Please send updates to this list of dates to: registerkm (at) longwood. Quick checks to determine age of Globe: o Persia or Iran?
Name changed to Iran in 1. Does your globe have Constantinople or Istanbul?
This city changed its name to Istanbul in 1. Is Israel shown? If yes, globe was made after 1.
Tanganyika instead of Tanzania? If yes, globe was made 1. Gold Coast became Ghana in 1. Does Bangladesh appear on the globe? If so, globe was made after 1. Is Vietnam shown as one nation (not North & South)?
If yes, then globe was made. New Holland becomes. Australia. 18. 19 - Florida ceded by Spain to US1.
Endrby's Land in antarctic. Van Dieman's Land becomes Tasmania (so. Southern part of Bechuanaland was called British. Bechuanaland, a colony that later became part of the Cape Colony and later.
S. Africa. 1. 89. North and South Dakota divided and Indian Territory in Oklahoma. African states. 19. Cuba independence. Panama independence. End of the Swedish- Norwegian Union (Norway independent); Sakhalin Island. Japan and Russia; Alberta and Saskatchewan become provinces.
Canada. 19. 07 - Eastern Oklahoma was called Indian Territory until 1. Bulgaria becomes independent kingdom; Belgium takes over Congo Free. State. 19. 09 - Canberra becomes capital of Australia. Union of South Africa (Confirm this)1. Korea was called Chosen by Japan.
Union of South Africa. Albania independent. Turkey loses most of European lands, Coup D'etat in Turkey. Panama Canal (another source said 1.
Egypt becomes. British Protectorate. World War Ipre. 19.
St. Petersburg, Russia. St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd (1.
Leningrad, until its original name (St. Petersburg) was restored in 1. Russian revolution. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were independent.
Annexed by Soviet. Union 1. 94. 0. 1. Yugoslavia created.
British East Africa becomes. Kenya. Palestine becomes British mandate. Irish Civil War. 19. Russia changes to Soviet Union. Egyptian independence. Turkey independent.
Christiana, Norway renamed Oslo. Leningrad appears. Peiping changed. to Peking.
Stalin comes to power. Lindbergh flies Atlantic.
Yugoslavia name change - - learn more about this. Constantinople. becomes Istanbul. Japan invades Manchuria and renames it Manchukuo. In 1. 93. 1 South Africa became a fully sovereign and self- governing dominion. British crown. In 1. Saudi Arabia independent. Iraq independent from Britian.
Japan seizes Manchuria; renamed Manchuokuo. Nazis come to power in Germany. Italian East Africa merged Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Ethiopia occupied by Italy, renamed Italian East Africa. Persia becomes Iran. Burma separates from India. Japan invasion of China. Germany annexes Austria. Bolivia loses Gran Chaco to Paraguay.
World War II1. 93. Bohemia (currently Czech Republic) occupied by Germany; Slovakia independent. France returns Hatay to Turkey. Estonia, Latvia. Lithuania are annexed by Soviet Union. Slovenia divided between Italy and Germany; Croatia independent. Ecuador loses Oriente to Peru.
Lebanon independent. Philippines independent from United States. India independent; East and West Pakistan created. Israel created (before 1.
Ceylon and Burma become independent. Newfoundland and Labrador join Canada. Korea divided. into North and South; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In 1. 95. 3 the two parts of Rhodesia were reunited, and combined with Nyasaland. Malawi in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and after its.
Southern Rhodesia. Rhodesia from 1. 96. Central African. Federation.
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Sudan independent.
Formally was . Sudan independent. UK. 1. 95. 7 - Gold Coast becomes Ghana. Malay states become independent. Egypt and Syria united as United Arab Republic. French West Africa. Congo and Somalia.
Major break- up of colonial Africa: French West Africa, French. Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, and other territories end, creating over 1.
Niger, Chad, Somalia. Congo, Nigeria. Zaire - - independent in 1.
Formally Belgian Congo. Sierra Leone, Tanzania (Tanganyika) independent. Kuwait independent.
British Somaliland became independent. Uganda, Algeria, Jamaica independent. Also Trinidad and Tobago, and. Western Samoa. 1. Kenya independent. Malaysia independence. Zanibar independence.
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves. The whites demanded. Southern Rhodesia (Rhodesia from 1. Malawi and. Zambia independent from UK; Zambia was Northern Rhodesia. Rhodesia divided.
Malta becomes independent. Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form new country: Tanzania. Southern Rhodesia independent (later became Zimbabwe in 1. Guyana independent. French Somaliland changes to Afars & Issas (Fr.)1. Equatorial Guinea independence.
Mauritius and Swaziland (from UK) gain. Muscat and Oman. changes to Oman. Fiji and Tongan Independence. Bahrain independent. Congo changes to Zaire.
Bangladesh independence. Ceylon changes to Sri Lanka. Bahamas independence. Guinea- Bissau independence. Grenada independence. Angola (formally Portuguese West Africa) and Mozambique independent.
Papua New Guinea gains independence. Vietnam unifies. Indonesia annexes Portuguese Timor. Seychelles. Independent. Djibouti independence. Dominica independence. St. Vincent and the Grenadines independence.
USSR invades. Afganistan. Zimbabwe gains. independence from United Kingdom. Dating Personals Threesomes Puerto Rico. It was called Southern Rhodesia. Name changed. to Zimbabwe in 1. Belize gains independence from United Kingdom/Guatemala.
Antigua and. Barbuda become independent state in British Common- Wealth of Nations 1. Upper Volta changes name to Burkina Faso. Ivory Coast changes. C. Kosovo may also gain independence from Serbia in the future.
Please send corrections. This globe shows paths taken across the Atlantic Ocean by the Graf Zeppelin and Lindbergh (N.
Y. From the collection of Katie Register, Rice, Virginia.