Latin America saw extensive migration of German, Italian & Irish immigrants to the South Atlantic coast & Caribbean.

The Afrikaners of South Africa came from Protestant communities of France, the Netherlands & Germany who settled in Southern Africa.

The Indian Ocean had a vast trade network of Arabic sultanates in South Arabia & Yemen. The Gulf Arab region brought valuable commodities from Asia through the Persian Gulf & Red Sea to the rest of the Islamic World.

In the Swahili east coast of Africa in the North desert region, you had the nomadic Bujah people, Egypt, Sudan & Eritrea. Along the coast, you had the Zinj people in Somalia, Kenya & Tanzania. Both these terms were Arab derived.

Pan-Slavic St Vitus Day is celebrated on the 28th June in Serbia to honour the battle of Kosovo in 1389.

Vietnam was reunified on the 2th July 1976.

Republic of Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso under revolutionary marxist Thomas Sankara on the 4th August 1984 up until 1987 and is now a leading Pan-African voice in the Alliance des États du Sahel alongside Mali & Niger.

As the Syrian Arab Republic heads towards the upcoming new Assembly, we remember that the first free & fair elections in the country post-independence were held on the 7th July 1947.

On the 215th anniversary of Venezuelan Independence on 5th July 1811 we think of all those who have suffered and died from the earthquake, the world is with you all, Viva the Bolivarian Republic.

Pink Tide in Latin America with the coming to power of Pres Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.🇻🇪

France won the World Cup for the first time.🇫🇷

South Africa's first Black Pres Mandela & dismantling of apartheid.🇿🇦

🇸🇾🇵🇸 Syria & Palestine attended the Madrid Conference to begin peace talks with Tel Aviv.

The Internet age began with Israel 🇮🇱 & the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 contributing software & hardware to electronics for the world economy.

China 🇨🇳 emerged as a major power.

🇮🇪 Ireland modernised economically & socially.

🇪🇺 The EU was officially est with the Treaty of Maastricht.

The Cold War came to an end with the dissolution of the USSR which became Russia. 🇷🇺

The 1990s were an interesting time. Star Trek, an American show 🇺🇸 was at its height with The Next Generation.

During the Cold War anti-colonial forces from across the global south came together to fight in the Vietnam War for that country's Independence.

n the 19th & 20th centuries, "Los Turcos" (migrants from the Levant), part of the Ottoman Empire, migrated in large numbers to Latin American countries like Venezuela.

In the West African Sahelian states like the Malian Empire, Songhai & Ghana Empire the spread of Islam came here to est African civilisations.

Constantine from Serbia made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire then it broke up to become known as the Byzantine Empire.

It started with the first cuneiform alphabet in Ugarit, Syria.

🇲🇦Morocco was a joint Franco-Spanish protectorate & many Moroccans joined the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina ending up changing sides & fighting alongside the Vietnamese.🇻🇳 The Senegalese Tirailleurs, also predominantly Muslim, fought in the war.🇸🇳🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇨🇮🇬🇳🇧🇯🇲🇷🇹🇩

The Spanish & Portuguese🇪🇸🇵🇹 spread to the Americas, with Caracas 🇻🇪 receiving a lot of Andalusians.

The Reconquista by the Christian powers forced the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews to 🇧🇦Sarajevo, 🇷🇸Belgrade, 🇬🇷Thessaloniki & 🇹🇷Istanbul.

🇮🇶The Abbasid revolution pushed the Damascus Caliphate out of the Levant & a branch of the Umayyads went to Iberia to set up Al Andalus, with the Emirate of Córdoba founded.

🇸🇾 The Umayyad Dynasty spread across ifrique & converted the Berbers to Islam before arriving in Europe🇪🇺 & reaching as far as France.🇫🇷

Gran Colombia - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama & regions of Brazil, Guyana & Peru.

United Arab Federation - Egypt & Syria.

Viet-Cong - Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos.

Republic of Upper Volta - Burkina Faso incl Mali, Niger & Côte d'Ivoire territory.

Yugoslavia - Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and autonomous Kosovo.

🇻🇳 Vietnam's National Reunification was 1976.

🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 The Alliance des États du Sahel in 2023.

🇷🇸 In 1961 the Non-Aligned Movement was founded in Belgrade.

Pan Arab countries Egypt Syria Iraq Yemen Bolivar's Latin American countries Venezuela Colombia Ecuador

Two very Important Assemblies. 🇸🇾 Syrian National Congress - 1919, first parliament in the Arab World. 🇻🇪 Congress of Angostura - 1819, creation of Gran Colombia in Latin America.

Vietnam is unique in Southeast Asian as the country was part of the Sinophere, while Islam, Hinduism & Christianity were never extensively spread there.

Venezuela has a larger moreno (mixed-race) population than Central America.

The Sahel & Scandinavia are both geographic regions from their respective continents.

Pan-Slavism which is supported in Serbia is a fundamentally Balkan & Yugoslav Federalist concept influenced by the French.

Ireland & Syria both have issues concerning constitutions & flags & the need to make them representative to all citizens from diverse communities.

n the Star Trek Universe future there were 4 other large political unions, the European Alliance, South American Union, Eastern Coalition & North American Republic.

Also in the Star Trek universe like other parts of the World, Africa undergoes unification first with the forming of the United States of Africa in the 23rd century before becoming the African Confederacy in the 24th century.

In the Star Trek future, there is a democratic revolution in the Arab World & Iran, whereby in this region of the world, constitutional politics wins out & a Muslim Bloc is created free of sectarianism & tyranny.

The Scots arrived in South Africa and put down roots there.

The Dutch came to & est communities in Latin America & the Caribbean.

The Dutch brought Muslims from Southeast Asia to Africa where they formed a Cape Malay community, while the British brought them from India & East Africa to settle in South Africa.