Sentence examples for was declared independent from inspiring English sources

Armenia was declared independent.

East Timor was declared independent on May 20.

His future wife arrived in 1948, after Israel was declared independent.

British links to the country, which was declared independent from the empire in 1961, remain strong.

In 1922, when Egypt was declared independent, ʿAbbās lost all rights to the throne.

They were finally brought to a standstill by armed resistance and disease, and Haiti was declared independent.

But there was a loophole: small patches of land had been declared "independent" homelands, so that the government could dump unwanted black people there.

The black states of Transkei and Ciskei within the province were declared "independent" by the South African government in 1976 and 1981, respectively.

The countries had been declared independent in 1965, but the communists rejected their separation.

The results of the vote, held in January 2011, were overwhelmingly in favour of independence, and South Sudan was declared an independent country on July 9 , 2011

In 1972 Ciskei was declared a self-governing Bantustan, with its capital at Zwelitsha, and in 1981 it was declared an independent republic under an act passed by the South African Parliament.