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Germany:

1.       Currencies

·         Currency Area Date created Date abolished

·         Euro Federal Republic of Germany 1999 

·         Deutsche Drums

·         Deutsche Mark West Germany

·         (unified Germany) 1948 (West Germany)

·         1990 (East Germany) 2002

·         East German mark East Germany 1948 1990

·         Saar franc Sarrland 1947 1959

·         Saar mark Sarrland 1947 1947

·         Reichsmark German Reich (Weimar Republic)

·         Greater German Reich (Nazi Germany)

·         German Realm (Allied-occupied Germany) 1924 1948

·         German Rentenmark German Reich (Weimar Republic) 1923 1924

·         German Papiermark German Empire

·         German Reich (Weimar Republic) 1914 1923

·         German gold mark German Empire 1873 1914

·         Vereinsthaler North German states 1857 1873

·         South German gulden South German states 1754 1873

·         Bremen thalerBremen ? 1873

·         Hamburg mark Hamburg ? 1873

2.       Official Names: Deutschland, Germania

3.       Historical characters:  Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, Michael Schumacher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

4.       Capital: Berlin

England:

1.       Currencies:

Pound	Market
Saint Helenian pound	St Helena
	Ascension Island
	Tristan da Cunha
Falkland pound	Falkland Islands
Gibraltar pound	Gibraltar

2.       Official Names: United Kingdom, Great Britain.

Historical characters:  Henry VII, Elizabeth I, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Jack the Ripper.

3.       Capital: London

India:

1. Currencies:

• (rupiyo) in Gujarati
• (tôka) in Assamese
• (taka) in Bengali
• (rupayā) in Hindi
• (pronounced ropyih) in Kashmiri
• (rūpāyi) in Kannada, Tulu and Konkani
• (rupayā) in Konkani
• (rūpā) in Malayalam
• (rupayā) in Marathi
• (rupaiya) in Nepali
• (tanka) in Oriya
• (rupiā) in Punjabi
• (rūpyakam) in Sanskrit (Devnagari)
• (rupiyo) in Sindhi
• (rūpāi) in Tamil
• (rūpāyi) in Telugu
• (rupay) in Urdu

2.       Official Names: Mahatma Gandhi.

3.       Historical characters: India, Bhārata, Bhāratavarsha, Hindustan, Jambudvipa, Nabhivarsha, Tianzhu.

4.       Capital: New Delhi

Brazil:

1.       Currencies:

·          Real.

Official Names: Brazil

·          Demonym,

·          The island of Brazil.

2.       Historical characters: Don Pedro II, Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, Getulio Vargas.

3.       Capital: Brasilia

Italy

1.       Currencies:

• AM-Lira
• Augustalis
• Baiocco
• Bolognino
• Italian lira
• Lira
• Lombardy-Venetia florin
• Lombardy-Venetia pound
• Luccan franc
• Luccan pound
• Michaelaton
• Milanese scudo
• Neapolitan lira
• Neapolitan piastra
• Papal lira
• Parman lira
• Piastra
• Piedmontese scudo
• Quattrino
• Roman scudo
• Sardinian lira
• Sardinian scudo
• Sicilian piastra
• Tarì
• Tuscan florin
• Tuscan pound
• Two Sicilies ducat
• Venetian lira
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2.       Official Names: Italy,

·         Historical characters: John Pizzarelli,

·         Alessandro Volta

·         Mussolini,

·         Américo Vespucio

·         Cristóbal Colón

·         Dante Alighieri

·         Donnatello

·         Galileo Galilei

·         Giacomo Puccini

3.       Capital: Roma

France

1.       Currencies:

·         Euro

·         Franc

·         Franc á cheval

·         Franc á pied

·         Franc coin of the Bourbon Restoration

2.       Official Names:

·          Gaul

·         Francia

·         France

3.       Historical characters:

·         Napoleón Bonaparte

·         Juana de Arco

·         Maréchal Foch

·         Charles de Gaulle

·         Descartes

·         Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4.       Capital: Paris

Spain

1.       Currencies:

·         Euro

·         Peseta

2.       Official Names:

·         Spain

3.       Historical characters:

·         Salvador Dalí

·         Hernan Cortes

·         Carlos V

·         Maximiliano de Absburgo

·          Pablo Ruiz Picasso

·         Isabel la Catolica

·         Federico Garcia Lorca

·         Luis Buñuel

4.       Capital: Madrid

What is the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

"England" is sometimes, wrongly, used in reference to the whole United Kingdom, the entire island of Great Britain (or simply Britain), or indeed the British Isles. This is not only incorrect but can cause offence to people from other parts of the UK. (See nationality of the British people).

England	Scotland	Wales	Great Britain

The diverse history of England, Scotland and Wales has led to very different cultural traditions; The Scots and Welsh have right to feel aggrieved whenever the term 'English' is used wrongly, to mean all three.

Countries within a Country

The name United Kingdom refers to the union of what were once four separate countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (though most of Ireland is now independent).

The United Kingdom

Which countries belong to the Commonwealth?

England	Scotland	Wales	Great Britain