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Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
CAATSA (Public Law 115-44, H.R. 3364) is the 2017 U.S. law imposing sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea, passed 419-3 and 98-2, signed by Trump August 2, 2017, with Section 216 congressional review and Section 231 defense-sector sanctions.
Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency, known as COIN, is the combined military, political, and economic strategy a government employs against an insurgency seeking power, with the population at the heart of the fight.
Counterintelligence
Counterintelligence, also called counter-espionage, is the information gathered and actions taken to guard against espionage, sabotage, and assassinations by foreign powers, with the FBI as the lead US agency.
Counting coup
Counting coup, the Plains Indian war honor of touching an enemy with the hand or a coupstick, outranked killing in many tribes; graded, witnessed deeds recorded in ledger art and continued by figures such as Joseph Medicine Crow.
Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Fourteen Indian Ocean countries were struck by the 26 December 2004 tsunami from a magnitude 9.1 Sumatra earthquake; about 230,000 died, led by Indonesia's Aceh, plus Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and others.
Countries supplying arms to Israel
Countries supplying arms to Israel: the United States (68% of imports 2021–25) and Germany (31%) dominate, with Italy the only other major-arms supplier; France was the main supplier until its 1967 embargo.
Country
Country: the general term for a territory with a population, government, and borders, used interchangeably with state; distinguished from nation (a people) and defined legally by the 1933 Montevideo Convention criteria.
Country Doctor
Country Doctor is a 1948 photo essay by American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, published in LIFE, following Dr. Ernest Ceriani, the sole doctor of Kremmling, Colorado.
Country Garden Holdings
Country Garden Holdings is a Chinese residential property developer founded by Yang Guoqiang in 1992 in Shunde, Guangdong, once China's largest homebuilder before defaulting on offshore bonds in 2023.
Country Liberal Party
Country Liberal Party (CLP), also Country Liberals (Northern Territory), conservative Northern Territory party formed 1974 from Liberal–Country Party merger; governed 1978–2001, 2012–2016, and from 2024 under Lia Finocchiaro.
Country of origin
Country of origin (COO) in marketing is the country where a product is made or perceived to be made, which shapes how consumers judge quality.
Country risk
Country risk is the risk of loss from economic, social, political, and legal conditions in a foreign country, affecting any exposure there, and is broader than sovereign risk.
Country risk premium
A country risk premium (CRP) is an add-on to a mature market's equity risk premium that compensates investors for the extra risk of emerging-market equity, commonly measured from sovereign default spreads.
Country Road Group
Country Road Group is an Australian apparel, accessories, and homewares retail group headquartered in Melbourne, whose brands include Country Road, Trenery, Witchery, Politix, and MIMCO.
Country trade
Country trade was the trade between India and China by private British merchants licensed by the East India Company, distinct from its own Europe-Asia monopoly commerce.
Counts and dukes of Angoulême
Counts and dukes of Angoulême (comtes et ducs d'Angoulême): hereditary rulers of a 9th-century county in Angoumois, western France. Ruled by Taillefer (845–1217) and Lusignan (to 1308), annexed by Philip IV, made a duchy by Francis I in 1515; last duke Louis-Antoine died 1844.
Counts and dukes of Guise
Counts and dukes of Guise: holders of the Picardy lordship of Guise, held by the Lorraine cadet house from 1528 (duchy-peerage) through Claude, François, and Henri de Guise until the male line failed in 1675, with a 1704 recreation for the Condés.
County and regional vocational-technical high schools
County and regional vocational-technical high schools are standalone public schools delivering career and technical education to students from multiple sending districts, found in states like New Jersey and Massachusetts.
County council
A county council is an upper-tier English local authority created by the Local Government Act 1888, providing countywide services (education, social care, transport, waste) alongside district councils in two-tier areas, distinct from unitary authorities which provide all services.
County disambiguation of Texas school district names
Because Texas independent school district boundaries follow neither county nor city lines, districts like Chapel Hill, Midway, and Valley View recur in different counties, distinguished by numeric county-district codes.
County magistrate
The county magistrate (縣令) was the head official of a county, imperial China's basic unit of local administration, charged with governing its population, finances, and litigation for the central state.
County of Edessa
The County of Edessa (مقاطعة الرها) was the first crusader state, founded in 1098 by Baldwin of Boulogne; its capital fell to Zengi in 1144 and the county ended in 1150.
County of Holland
County of Holland (graafschap Holland): medieval principality on the North Sea coast, founded by the Gerulfingian counts from 889, named Holland under Floris II (1101), shaped by peat reclamation, water boards, and rapid late-medieval commercialisation.
County of Sargans
County of Sargans (Grafschaft Sargans), a lordship in the Sarganserland held by the counts of Werdenberg-Sargans from about 1260, pledged to Habsburg and Toggenburg, sold to the seven Swiss cantons in 1483 for 15,000 gulden, and governed as a common bailiwick until 1798.
County of Savoy
County of Savoy (1003–1416), Comté de Savoie, a Holy Roman Empire county ruled by the House of Savoy; founded by Humbert I Whitehands, centered on Chambéry, raised to a duchy by Sigismund in 1416.
County of Tripoli
The County of Tripoli (مقاطعة طرابلس) was a Crusader state on the Levantine coast, founded by Raymond IV of Toulouse and conquered by the Mamluks in 1289.
County record office herbarium
A county record office herbarium is a pressed-plant specimen collection held by a UK county archive, part of Britain's 20-million-specimen herbaria network documented via Index Herbariorum and Herbaria United.
County regiment
A county regiment was a British infantry regiment tied to a named county by title, depot, and recruiting area under the Cardwell reforms of the 1870s.
County training school
A county training school was a public secondary school for African American students in the segregated South, combining elementary grades, limited secondary instruction, and teacher training from 1911 onward.
County-class cruiser
County-class cruiser: Royal Navy and RAN treaty heavy cruisers (13 ships, 1926–29; Kent, London, Norfolk sub-classes), 10,000 tons, eight 8-inch guns, 32.5 knots; three lost in WWII, last scrapped 1959.