Athletes from 26 NOCs won at least one medal, and athletes from 18 of these NOCs secured at least one gold.

And they've achieved a lot of other amazing health results.

I mean actually respecting them, respecting what they've achieved.

The swastika in the center of the design is a reconstruction.

After the fall of the Ostrogoths, the Franks also conquered Provence.

In 1848, Spanish troops conquered the Islas Chafarinas.

Brazilian women were officially granted the right to vote only in 1932.

France and Savoy formed an alliance to acquire territory from Austria.

The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) eventually won the match and the championship.

This was the seat of the administration of the city in the age of the communes.

When the Danish army conquered the city in 866, its name became Jórvík .

In 228 BC, Qin captured King Youmiu and conquered Zhao.

Latvia and Slovakia won the first medals in their Winter Olympic history.

The Sassanids ruled for 425 years, until the Muslim armies conquered the empire.

In Liechtenstein, women were given the right to vote by the women's suffrage referendum of 1984.

In 1308, the Teutonic Knights conquered the formerly Polish region of Pomerelia with Gdańsk (Danzig).

They formed an alliance with England and seized town after town in France.

They quickly conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and France surrendered on 22 June.

Women's ice hockey made its debut and the United States won the gold medal.

Both then invaded Uruguay and overran most of the country outside the environs of the capital, Montevideo.

In 1630, the Dutch conquered portions of northeast Brazil and permitted the open practice of any religion.

Their relationship was discontinued by Ming, because Ming was planning to make Jurchens a means of protecting the border.

The British conquered it in 1790 and used it as one of their major military stations on the Malabar Coast.

Athletes from Finland and Norway won 28 medals, more than the rest of the participating nations combined.

On 9 March the Spanish took Procida and Ischia, two islands in the Bay of Naples.

In the summer of 569, the Lombards conquered the main Roman centre of northern Italy, Milan.

He was rebuffed by the MPLA, and joined forces with the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) in 1964.

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Eventually, the better armed Prussian troops won the crucial victory at the Battle of Königgrätz under Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.

In 539, the Ostrogoths conquered and destroyed Milan in the course of the Gothic War against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

At the end of the Bronze Age, Nineveh was much smaller than Babylon, but still one of the world's major cities (population c. 33,000).

In 1638 the Manchu defeated and conquered Ming China's traditional ally Joseon with an army of 100,000 troops in the Second Manchu invasion of Korea.

The Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960 during the Congo Crisis Ruanda Urundi followed with its independence two years later.

The indigenous Guaraní had been living in Paraguay for at least a millennium before the Spanish conquered the territory in the 16th century.

The First Temple period ended around 586 BCE, as the Babylonians conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and laid waste to Solomon's Temple.

The Mamluks won a decisive victory, killing the Mongols' Nestorian Christian general Kitbuqa, and five days later they had re taken Damascus.

There was unprecedented parity at these Games, during which 10 countries won gold medals more than any Games to that point.

After John Stockton missed a desperation 3 pointer, Jordan and the Bulls claimed their sixth NBA championship, and secured a second three peat.

Four winners Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand have gone on to win the World Chess Championship.

These Heraclids conquered the Peloponnesian kingdoms of Mycenae, Sparta and Argos, claiming, according to legend, a right to rule them through their ancestor.

By the later half of the 2nd century BC it belonged to the Romans, who included it in their province of Africa, and gave it the name of Regio Syrtica .

Four days later, the Anglo Saxons won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

In 480 BC the Greeks won a decisive victory over the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis and forced Xerxes to retire to Sardis.

On his way, he conquered the cities of Curiati (Kuryat), Muscat in July 1507, and Khor Fakkan, accepting the submission of the cities of Kalhat and Sohar.