Nabokov, Nicolas [Nikolay]

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Brunei

Music by Inche Awang Besar bin Sagap (b 1914). Words by Pengiran Dato Utama Haji Mahomed Yusuf bin Pengiran Haji Abdul Rahim (b 1923). Composed in 1947, adopted in 1951.

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Bulgaria

Music and words by Tsvetan Tsvetkov Radoslavov (1863–1931), based on a popular patriotic song, My Beloved Land. Adopted in 1964.

The song was composed by Radoslavov in 1885 while he was still a student and on his way to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian war. It was used by Boris Trichkov (1881–1944) in his choral work My Beloved Land. Only the first of the three verses now in use is by Radoslavov. The others are by Pavel Matev and Georgy Dyagarov.

Before 1885 the Bulgarians used the Russian anthem as a patriotic song. In that year the anthem Shoumi Maritsa was composed by a Czech living in Bulgaria, Gabriel Šebek (d after 1907), to words by Maraček, later revised by Nikolo Shivkov (1847–1901). This was sung until 1946 when it was replaced by Bulgaria mila, zemya na gheroi, with music by Georgi Dimitrov, G. Tslatev-Cherkin and S. Obtetenov, and words by Nikola Furnadziev, M. Isacvand and Elizaveta Bagriana. This in turn was replaced by the present anthem.

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Burkina Faso

Composer unknown. Words, beginning ‘Contre la férule humiliante’ (‘Against humiliating bondage’), by Thomas Sankara (1949–87). Adopted in 1984.

Between 1960 and 1984 the country, as Upper Volta, used as its anthem Fière Volta de mes aïeux, with music and words by Robert Ouédraogo.

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Burma.

See Myanmar.

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Burundi

Music by Marc Barengayabo (b 1934). Words written collectively by a committee presided over by Jean Batiste Ntahokaja (b 1920). Adopted in 1962.

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Cambodia

Music adapted by F. Perruchot and J. Jekyll from a Cambodian folksong. Words by Chuon Nat (1883–1969). Adopted in 1941.

When the country became the Khmer Republic, in 1970, an anthem beginning ‘Chon cheat Khmer lebey pouké muoy kong lok’ (‘Khmers are known throughout the world as descendants of glorious warriors’) was used. This in turn was replaced by another anthem during the country’s period as Kampuchea (1975–89). The present anthem was reinstated in 1993.

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Cameroon

Music by Samuel Minkyo Bamba (b 1911) and Moise Nyatte (1910–78). Words by René Djam Afame (1910–81) and a group of students from the Ecole Normale de la Mission Presbytérienne Américaine at Sangmelina. Used unofficially as the national anthem since 1948; officially adopted in 1957. Revisions to both text and music were made in 1978.

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