War broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s following the dissolution of the Yugoslav federation, comprising Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Yet farming, forestry and new-found oil have the potential to fuel faster economic growth.Instead, Mr Museveni's focus now is dynastic; he wants to preside over some kind of East African federation, comprising Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, perhaps with a family member succeeding him in Kampala's State House.
Though the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, continued to make proposals for setting up a central European federation comprising the former Habsburg lands and even southern Germany, the European Advisory Commission in London assumed that Austria would return to sovereignty within the borders of 1937.
1945 - Establishment of Yugoslav socialist federation, comprising six republics, including Macedonia.
The university is a federation, comprising over forty self-governing colleges and halls, along with a central administration headed by the Vice-Chancellor.
The federation comprised rural cantons as well as city states that had expanded their territories into the countryside by political and military means at the cost of the previously ruling liege lords.
Mr. Kostunica, who has been president of Yugoslavia since Mr. Milosevic's ouster, is seeking a new job because the federation comprising Serbia and Montenegro will be dissolved later this year.
The federation guard, comprising servicemen and women from the three branches of the defence force, stood at attention in the forecourt as Turnbull arrived with his wife, Lucy, to bursts of Waltzing Matilda from the army band.
Some leaders in this group have even hinted that they might pull out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. if the federation, comprising 60 unions, shunned their calls for change.
Repairing the structures of soccer to eliminate most, if not all, of the corruption in the sport may not be easy, since FIFA comprises 209 national federations and six regional confederations that manage lucrative events across the world.
