Overseas areas of Historic significance to your country

Lawnmowerman

Lawnmowerman

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Are there any overseas areas that are significant to your countries history???

Being Australian I'd claim

The Gallipoli peninsula - Turkey
Passchendaele - Belguim
Changi Prison - Singapore
Hellfire Pass - Thailand
Kokoda Track - Paupa New Guinea
Long Tan - Veitnam
 
WeisSaul

WeisSaul

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New Amsterdam
Liberia, the Philippines, Sabah, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands. All of which used to be American colonies at some point.
 
Salah

Salah

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Maryland
I would say a nice chunk of Mexico thanks to the 1846-1848 War.
 
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Larrey

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Finland, Germany, Poland, Russia, the Baltics States, Denmark, the Delaware.
 
Thessalonian

Thessalonian

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Central Macedonia
Great Britain, Italy, Germany, France, All Balkan nations (well almost) and Turkey...
 
Kevinmeath

Kevinmeath

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Navan, Ireland
Flanders? that area of Northern Europe has seen the British and Irish die in their millions.
 
BRIAN GOWER

BRIAN GOWER

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Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
The region of Patagonia which was settled by the Welsh in the 19th century, as well as Pennsylvania for the same reasons, although most of my relatives settled in Utah Territory early 1860s (the Bowen family who became Mormons) and Nebraska (Roberts were farmers and married Germans) in the early 1900s.
 
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Naomasa298

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Awesome
Waterloo. Where Napoleon did surrender. He couldn't escape if he'd wanted to.
 
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Arete

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Ottawa, Canada
Vimy Ridge in France.

France.

Britain.

And it's not overseas, but the USA.
 
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Tulun

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Western Eurasia
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Overseas? nothing, our only overseas possession was a concession in Tianjin, and had no significance.
In Europe: Transylvania, Partium, Banat, Maramures in Romania, Subcarpathia in Ukraine, Slovakia, most of Croatia, Vojvodina in Serbia and Burgenland in Austria (territories belonging to the Hungarian Kingdom) and parts of todays Russia and Ukraine: areas around the Middle- and Southern Urals and the Pontic Steppe (ethnogenesis and migration).
For the most significant battle sites:
Lechfeld (955), Belgrade (1456) and Voronezh (1943)
 
Lucius

Lucius

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Nebraska
Africa, Britain, Ireland, Germany, The Philippines and China.
 
gregorian

gregorian

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Additions to Lawnmowerman's Australia list...

- Well, the Mother Country of course. England. London. The source of the first European boat people.
- East Timor. We were deeply intertwined in their chaos, bloodshed, and independence.
- Bali. The terrorist bombings there were our own mini 9-11. Deeply ingraining the place into our collective memory.
 
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