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France
France is a country in western Europe that grew from the western part of the Carolingian Empire. It built the French Empire overseas and was a central actor in European power politics, appearing in the histories of empires from the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire to the German Empire. French colonial expansion also ended the independence of Sahelian states such as the Wadai Empire.
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