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- Upper Volta (French: Haute-Volta) was a colony of French West Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso. It was...9 KB (729 words) - 11:39, 11 August 2024
- as well as the later French colonisation of the territory and its independence as the Republic of Upper Volta in 1960. Iron production occurred in regions...38 KB (3,722 words) - 19:55, 21 August 2024
- self-governing state within the French Community. Before becoming autonomous, it had been part of the French Union as the French Upper Volta. On 5 August 1960, it...11 KB (649 words) - 17:29, 24 August 2024
- known as the Upper Volta national football team until 1984, when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. They finished fourth in the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations,...47 KB (1,022 words) - 17:42, 10 August 2024
- coup of 1983 which brought Thomas Sankara to power. The original flag of Upper Volta, adopted at independence, contained three horizontal stripes of black...7 KB (398 words) - 23:02, 25 August 2024
- in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin)...29 KB (3,149 words) - 20:00, 12 August 2024
- Upper Senegal and Niger (French: Haut Sénégal et Niger) was a colony in French West Africa, created on 21 October 1904 from colonial Senegambia and Niger...8 KB (687 words) - 20:26, 12 August 2024
- Sangoulé Lamizana (category Heads of state of Burkina Faso)additional position of Prime Minister from 8 February 1974, to 7 July 1978. After Upper Volta achieved complete independence from the French Union in 1960,...6 KB (459 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2024
- Volta was a Mogador-class destroyer (contre-torpilleur) of the French Navy. Named for the West African river, she was built before the outbreak of World...13 KB (1,517 words) - 23:59, 26 August 2024
- launched in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution (French: Révolution d'août) or Burkinabé...29 KB (3,285 words) - 07:56, 18 January 2024
- Sahel-Benin Union (category 1958 in Upper Volta)Union was a short-lived union of four former French colonies of French West Africa, that were the four Republics of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Niger, Dahomey...3 KB (155 words) - 21:25, 30 July 2023
- while Chad, French Dahomey, French Sudan, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritania, Middle Congo, Niger, Senegal, Ubangi-Shari, and Upper Volta chose to become...31 KB (3,349 words) - 18:14, 5 July 2024
- 1932, a French government decree was issued, whereby the colony of Upper Volta was abolished and its lands were split between Ivory Coast, French Soudan...13 KB (1,460 words) - 12:31, 26 August 2024
- state Volta Redonda, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state Upper Volta (disambiguation) Lake Volta, in Ghana Volta Region, in Ghana Volta River...4 KB (595 words) - 14:50, 29 June 2023
- list of ambassadors of the United States to Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). Until 1960 Upper Volta was a French possession as a part of French West...6 KB (323 words) - 11:57, 19 August 2024
- Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Dahomey (now Benin). The French colonial territories...6 KB (700 words) - 15:11, 22 May 2024
- Tout-à-Coup Jazz (category 1970s establishments in Upper Volta)the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in the 1970s, during the military rule of Colonel General Sangoulé Lamizana. In French, tout à coup is...5 KB (549 words) - 17:16, 2 July 2023
- The National Liberation Movement (French: Mouvement de Libération Nationale, MLN) was a political party in Burkina Faso. The party was originally established...1 KB (141 words) - 08:41, 9 March 2023
- French civilian administration in 1956. In 1947, French Upper Volta was reconstituted, and the Cercles of Dori and Fada N'Gourma ceded to Upper Volta...11 KB (878 words) - 13:42, 28 July 2024
- colony of the French Upper Volta (Haute-Volta, modern Burkina Faso) dissolved, and the northern territory was added to French Sudan. In 1947, Upper Volta was...23 KB (2,681 words) - 16:47, 16 June 2024
- the Gold Coast, N. by the French colony of Upper Senegal and Niger, E. by Dahomey, also a French colony. (For map see French West Africa and Gold Coast)
- note-book of that period, under date August 6th, 1800, is the following sentence: "I cannot close this notice without feeling grateful to M. Volta, Mr. Nicholson
- reorganization of the French West African colonial empire, the now largely pacified territories of the Volta basin were integrated into the Upper-Senegal-Niger