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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...

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...

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...

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,...

coup of 1983 which brought Thomas Sankara to power. The original flag of Upper Volta, adopted at independence, contained three horizontal stripes of black...

in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin)...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

while Chad, French Dahomey, French Sudan, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritania, Middle Congo, Niger, Senegal, Ubangi-Shari, and Upper Volta chose to become...

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...

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...

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...

Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Dahomey (now Benin). The French colonial territories...

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...

The National Liberation Movement (French: Mouvement de Libération Nationale, MLN) was a political party in Burkina Faso. The party was originally established...

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...

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...