- A
legation was a
diplomatic representative office of
lower rank than an emb****y.
Where an emb****y was
headed by an amb****ador, a
legation was
headed by...
- The
siege of the
International Legations was a
pivotal event during the
Boxer Rebellion in 1900, in
which foreign diplomatic compounds in
Peking (now...
-
Tangier American Legation (Arabic: المفوضية الأميركية في طنجة; French:
Légation américaine de Tanger),
officially the
Tangier American Legation Institute for...
- The
Peking Legation Quarter was the area in
Beijing (Peking),
China where a
number of
foreign legations were
located between 1861 and 1959. In the Chinese...
- A
Texas Legation was
maintained by the
Republic of
Texas in Washington, D.C.; London; and
Paris (1
Place Vendôme) from 1836
through 1845. In a bid to protect...
- The
Baltic Legations were the
missions of the
exiled Baltic diplomatic services from 1940 to 1991.
After the
Soviet occupation of the
Baltic states in...
- missionaries, soldiers, and some
Chinese Christians took
refuge in the
Legation Quarter,
which the
Boxers besieged. The Eight-Nation Alliance—comprising...
- King Gojong's
internal exile to the
Russian legation, also
called the
Agwan Pacheon incident (Korean: 아관파천),
occurred in 1896 in
Korea when King Gojong...
-
grouped the
delegations into five
larger legations. The four
original legations were
joined into the
legation of the Romagne. In 1859, the
Kingdom of Sardinia...
-
class of
feudal 'Roman barons'.
Marittima e
Campagna was a
papal legation (IV
Legation) from 1850
until 1860, when it was
annexed by the
Kingdom of Sardinia...
