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+"""
+Chron.
+Copyright (C) 2018 Alisa Belyaeva, Ata Ali Kilicli, Amaury Martiny,
+Daniil Mordasov, Liam O’Flynn, Mikhail Orlov.
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+
+from datetime import datetime
+import requests
+import os
+
+URL = "https://query.wikidata.org/sparql"
+QUERY = """
+SELECT ?entity ?predecessors
+WHERE
+{
+	VALUES ?countryclass { wd:Q3024240 wd:Q6256 }
+  	?entity wdt:P31 ?countryclass ;
+	   wdt:P571 ?inception .
+	OPTIONAL { ?entity wdt:P576 ?dissolved } .
+    OPTIONAL { ?entity wdt:P155 ?predecessors } .
+	FILTER (?inception < "1815-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime) 
+	FILTER (?dissolved >= "1789-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime || !Bound(?dissolved) )
+	SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
+}
+"""
+R_ENTITIES = requests.get(URL, params={"format": "json", "query": QUERY})
+ENTITIES = R_ENTITIES.json()
+
+for entity in ENTITIES["results"]["bindings"]:
+    data = {
+        "wikidata_id": int(entity["entity"]["value"].split("Q", 1)[1]),
+        "color": "#fff", # TODO: change
+        "admin_level": 1,
+        "predecessors": [] # entity["predecessors"]["value"]
+    }
+    r_te = requests.post(
+        os.getenv("API_ROOT", "http://localhost/api/") + "/territorial-entities/",
+        data,
+        params={"format": "json"},
+    )
+    print(str(r_te.status_code) + ": " + r_te.reason)