Gandamak

Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan. It was the site of the Battle of Gandamak in 1842 and of the signing of the Treaty of Gandamak between the British government and Muhammad Yakub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, in 1879.

Calabria

Calabria is a region in southern Italy formed of a peninsula between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas. The region appears as the toe of Italy’s iconic “boot” shape. It is separated from Silicy by the Strait of Messina. Calabria was the site of a series of peasant uprisings in 1848.

Corfu

Corfu, or Kerkyra, is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, northwest of Greece. The Ionian Islands had been under the Venetian rule since the Middle Ages but were occupied by France in 1797. After the Napoleonic Wars, the island became a British protectorate. The Ionian Islands were united with Greece in 1864.

Genoa

Genoa is a port city on the northwestern coast of Italy, located on the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea. In 1797, the Genoan Republic became a French protectorate and would later be annexed by France in 1805. Genoa liberated itself from French rule in 1814.

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