What is the name of the country formely known as Rhodesia?

Question

In Africa

Also was iraq known as siam or persia, or indeed another name!

Answer 1

Zimbabwe was once called Rhodesia. Siam was the old name for Thailand. Persia was the old name for Iran. Iraq used to to be known as Mesopotamia.

Answer 2

Zimbabwe.

The Rhodesia colony gained internationally-recognised independence from Britain in 1980 and became the Republic of Zimbabwe. At an earlier period, the name "Rhodesia" was used to refer to a larger region that corresponds to both Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia).


On the Iraq question. IRAN was the country formerly known as Persia. Thailand was known as Siam. So neither Persia or Siam are correct for IRAQ. In ancient times, Iraq was a part of Mesopotamia (ancient name and Greek variant.)

Good luck.

Answer 3

Rhodesia = Zimbabwe
Rhodesia was the name of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia after 1965. Landlocked and located in southern Africa, it was governed by white minority rule until 1979. The colony was named after Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the nineteenth century. The colony gained internationally-recognised independence from Britain in 1980 and became the Republic of Zimbabwe. At an earlier period, the name "Rhodesia" was used to refer to a larger region that corresponds to both Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia).


Siam = Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, bordering Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west. Thailand was also known as Siam (Thai: สยาม; IPA: [saˈjaːm]), which was the country's official name until May 11, 1949. The word Thai (ไทย) means "freedom" in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group.

Answer 4

Originally there was the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassaland.
This consisted of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyassaland. Nyassaland gained its independence and became Malawi. Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. Southern Rhodesia remained so until IanSmith declared UDI, an illegal move in the eyes of the UK and it became Rhodesia. After that, it became known as Zimbabwe. Believed by some to be the homeland of the Queen of Sheba.

Answer 5

Iraq has been know by the following names Mesopotamia (before 637AD) and as Iraq (after 637AD)
it has been ruled by the following empires

Called Mesopotamia by the:
Sumerian Empire
Akkadian Empire
Empire of Ur
Old Babylonian Empire
Assyrian Empire
Chaldean Empire of Babylon
Achaemenian Empire
Seleucidd Empire
Parthian Empire
Sasanidd Empire

Called Iraq by the:
Abbasidd Caliphate
Zinj Rebellion
Buyyidd Empire
Seljuq Empire
Mongol Il-Khani Empire
Jalayridd Empire
Kara Koyunlu Tribe
Ak Koyunlu Tribe
Safavidd Period
Ottoman Empire
British Empire
Modern Iraq

Answer 6

Zimbabwe used to be called Rhodesia. Before that it was Southern Rhodesia. Zambia used to be Northern Rhodesia
Persia is now most of Iran.
Siam is now Thailand

Answer 7

Rhodesia is now known as Zimbabwe. Bruce Grobelaar the former goalkeeper of Liverpool is from Zimbabwe.

Answer 8

Zimbabwe

Answer 9

Zimbabwe

Answer 10

Zimbabwe. My Dad is from there. It was Rhodesia after Rhodes (an Englishman). It is now called Zimbabwe (folllowing independence from the UK).