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Asante Empire , Asante also spelled Ashanti , West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Asante rich from Comoé Flow in the west to the Togo Mountains in the east, was in the 18th century in slave trade and unsuccessfully re
lip , one of the smallest federal states, has formed the northeast corner of the since 1946/47 country North Rhine-Westphalia; the smaller one Schaumburg-Lippe , now in the southern part of the country by Lower Saxony , was founded under a separate branch of the House of Lippe i
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