DENMARK Antonyms

• republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

• a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

• French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)

• a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990

• a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

• ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE

• a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

• a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905

• a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

• a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991

• formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia

• a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

• a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state

• a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

• a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula