Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries/Status
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[edit]- Category:Former countries in Africa
- Category:Former countries in Asia
- Category:Former countries in Europe
- Category:Former countries in North America
- Category:Former countries in South America
- Category:Former countries by region
- Category:Short-lived states
Former countries in Africa
[edit]Former countries in Asia
[edit]- in East Asia
- Chinese Empire (redirect to History of China)
- Republic of China (currently mostly about the Republic of China on Taiwan)
- Korean Empire
- lots of others, I'd imagine, especially as you go back further.
- in Southeast Asia
- in South Asia
- in the Middle East
- in Central Asia
Former countries in Australia and Oceania
[edit]Former countries in Europe
[edit]- in the British Isles
- Kingdom of England (10th century - 1707, redirects to England)
- Kingdom of Scotland (9th century - 1707, redirects to Scotland)
- Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1800)
- Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1800)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922/1927)
- Irish Free State (1922-1937)
- Éire (1937-1949)
- in Iberia - there are numerous former states in Iberia, but these largely currently exist as "communities" in Spain, which makes it hard to say exactly what's going on. Also, these states were basically sovereign, in merely personal union, until the 18th century, and possibly even after then.
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Aragon/Kingdom of Aragon
- Biscay
- Valencian Country/Kingdom of Valencia
- Cartagena canton
- Catalonia/County of Barcelona
- Cordoba Caliphate
- Castile/Kingdom of Castile
- Kingdom of León
- Kingdom of Granada
- Navarre/Kingdom of Navarre
- Peñíscola (under antipope Benedict XIII)
- Ribagorza
- Sobrarbe
- Taifa kingdoms.
- Galicia/Kingdom of Galicia
- Kingdom of Majorca
- in France - various former states of the Holy Roman Empire along the northeastern border and in the southeast, but also perhaps former quasi-independent feudal territories like Brittany?
- Kingdom of France (until 1792)
- Avignon
- Basse Navarre
- Lorraine/Duchy of Lorraine
- Franche Comté/Free County of Burgundy
- Besançon/Archbishopric of Besançon
- Bar/Duchy of Bar
- Artois/County of Artois
- Cambrai/Bishopric of Cambrai
- Béarn (to 1620)
- Burgundy/Duchy of Burgundy (to 1477)
- Brittany/Duchy of Brittany (to 1532)
- Savoy/Duchy of Savoy (came to France in 1860, before that part of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1730, and the Kingdom of Sicily 1720-1730)
- Comtat Venaissin (part of the Papal States)
- Avignon (part of the Papal States)
- Provence/County of Provence (to 1481)
- Strasbourg (Free City)
- Duchy of Bar
- probably more could be found...
- in the Low Countries
- United Kingdom of the Netherlands
- United Provinces
- Spanish Netherlands/Austrian Netherlands/Southern Netherlands
- Kingdom of Holland
- Batavian Republic
- Liège/Bishopric of Liège
- Seventeen Provinces
- each of the Seventeen Provinces could be considered to have been a state at one point - many of them are current provinces of Belgium or the Netherlands, although with rather different borders, and consolidated or divided up.
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- in Switzerland - all of the cantons may be considered to have been sovereign entities, at least before the French Revolution. Also, independent allies like the Grisons or Geneva certainly were. The Grisons were actually divided into several separate leagues, additionally - the Grey League, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the League of God's House, which were merely allied together, so each of those might be considered its own state.
- in Italy
- Kingdom of Sardinia/Piedmont-Sardinia
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Kingdom of Naples (officially the "Kingdom of Sicily")
- Kingdom of Sicily (or "of Sicily beyond the Lighthouse")
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany/Kingdom of Etruria
- Republic of Florence (redir) / Duchy of Florence (redir)
- Republic of Siena (redir)
- Republic of Venice
- Republic of Genoa
- Lucca / Republic of Lucca (redir) / Duchy of Lucca
- Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Modena/Duchy of Modena (redir)
- Reggio/Duchy of Reggio
- Mirandola/Duchy of Mirandola
- Parma/Duchy of Parma
- Guastalla/Duchy of Guastalla
- Milan/Duchy of Milan
- Mantua/Duchy of Mantua
- Ferrara/Duchy of Ferrara (redir)
- Massa/Duchy of Massa (redir)
- Carrara/Principality of Carrara (redir)
- Papal States
- Cisalpine Republic
- Ligurian Republic
- the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
- in Central Europe
- Holy Roman Empire
- Kingdom of Poland, the old Polish state (pre-1795), could be mentioned here
- Kingdom of Hungary (1001-1918; 1920-1946, but this latter with today's borders)
- Bohemia/Kingdom of Bohemia (10th century-1918)
- Prussia
- Duchy of Prussia (1535-1701)
- Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918, part of the German Empire from 1871)
- Free State of Prussia (1918-1945, part of the German Empire)
- Habsburg Monarchy (1526-1918)
- Austrian Empire (1804-1867)
- Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)
- Confederation of the Rhine member states (1806-1813)
- German Confederation (1815-1871)
- German Empire (1871-1945)
- German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (1949-1990)
- West Germany (informal name for Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1990, prior to incorporation of former East Germany)
- Czechoslovakia (1918-1939, 1945-1992)
- Danzig
- in Scandinavia
- I can't think of any...
- in the Balkans
- Kingdom of Croatia
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Kingdom of Bulgaria
- Neopatria
- Latin Empire of Orient
- Ottoman Empire (1300-1922)
- Montenegro (ca. 1700-1918/1921)
- Serbia (ca. 1818-1918)
- Yugoslavia
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes → Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)
- de jure 1941-1945
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003)
- in Eastern Europe
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania (-1569)
- Russian Empire (1721-1917)
- Soviet Union (1922-1991)
- Grand Duchy of Finland (-1918)
- Moresnet
Former countries in North America and the Caribbean
[edit]- in the present USA
- California Republic
- Confederate States of America
- Hawaiian Kingdom (not really North America...)
- Republic of Texas (1836-1845)
- Republic of Vermont
- Aztec Empire
- Tortuga
- Mosquitia
- United Provinces of Central America
Former countries in South America
[edit]- Great Colombia
- Disputed regions
- Patagonia Empire (under Orelie Antoine)
- Brazilian Empire
Former Colonial Entities
[edit]Former Colonial Entities in Africa
[edit]- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Italian Libya
- French Algeria
- French Morocco
- Spanish Morocco
- French West Africa
- French Equatorial Africa
- French Somaliland
- British East Africa
- Gold Coast
- Kamerun
- Cape Colony
- Natal
- Southern Rhodesia
- Northern Rhodesia
- Bechuanaland
- Basutoland
- Portuguese West Africa
- Portuguese Guinea
- Portuguese East Africa
- Tanganyika/German East Africa
- Southwest Africa/German Southwest Africa
- Togoland
- Congo Free State/Belgian Congo
- Spanish Guinea
- Spanish Sahara
Former Colonial Entities in Asia and the Pacific
[edit]- Straits Settlements
- French Indochina
- Palestine
- Aden
- Trucial States
- Ceylon
- Dutch East Indies
- Netherlands New Guinea
- Hong Kong
- Macau
- Papua Territory
- German New Guinea
- New Hebrides
- Goa
- Pondicherry
- current Australian states
Former Colonial Entities in North America
[edit]- in North America
- New France
- Louisiana (don't seem to have a specific article on the colony)
- East Florida
- West Florida
- Rupert's Land
- New Spain
- 13 British colonies that became the US
- British colonies that became today's Canadian provinces
- Russian Alaska
- in the Caribbean
- Leeward Islands
- Windward Islands
- Federation of the West Indies
- British colonies of Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, Bahamas
Former Colonial Entities in South America
[edit]- Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata
- New Granada
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Portuguese Brazil
- British Guiana
- Dutch Guiana