Pietrasanta is a costal town in Tuscany, Italy. Though the town has Roman origins, the medieval town dates to 1255 and reached its height under the Republic of Genoa.
Ghana is a country in West Africa that borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Ghana. The first permanent state dates to the eleventh century CE, with the Kingdom of Ashanti being one of the most powerful to control the region.
Kodok, or Kothok, formerly known as Fashoda, is a town in the Western Nile state of South Sudan. Famously, the British and the French almost went to war here in 1898 in what is known as the Fashoda Incident.
Zambia is a south-central, landlocked African country. It was originally inhabited by the Khosian people until the arrival of Bantu-speaking populations in the thirteenth century.
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa, and its capital is Harare. People have inhabited the region for 100,000 years, and the first Bantu-speaking people arrived 2000 years ago. European colonists arrived in the 1880s.
Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa that became independent from the British Commonwealth in 1966. 70% of the land is in the Kalahari Desert, and its capital is Gaborone.
