former sovereign state

A former sovereign state is a political entity that once possessed full independence and international recognition as a nation but has since lost that status through dissolution, merger, annexation, or other political change.

Aliases (50)

• historical state ×64
• former state ×31
• former monarchy ×24
• historical empire ×22
• historical country ×21
• historical kingdom ×19
• state of the Holy Roman Empire ×19
• medieval state ×17
• former kingdom ×15
• former political entity ×14
• ecclesiastical principality ×12
• former principality ×10
• Islamic state ×9
• princely state ×9
• principality ×9
• former empire ×5
• Caliphate ×4
• breakaway state ×4
• khanate ×4
• European great power ×3
• Polish state ×3
• former princely state ×3
• Afghan state ×2
• Balkan country ×2
• Bulgarian state ×2
• German state ×2
• former polity ×2
• former socialist state ×2
• historical German state ×2
• Balkan state ×1
• Cold War state ×1
• Former country ×1
• German principality ×1
• Habsburg territory ×1
• Historical state ×1
• Landgraviate ×1
• city-state under League of Nations protection ×1
• constituent kingdom of Spain ×1
• former federal republic ×1
• former government of France ×1
• former independent Boer republic ×1
• former maritime republic ×1
• former monarchy territory ×1
• historical political entities ×1
• historical republic ×1
• multi-ethnic polity ×1
• pre-Columbian state ×1
• predecessor state of Germany ×1
• predecessor state of the United States of America ×1
• semi-autonomous city-state ×1

Instances (387)

• Holy Roman Empire ("former empire")
• Fascist Italy ("historical country")
• Yugoslavia ("Balkan country")
• Prussia ("historical state")
• Prince-Bishopric of Münster ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Hesse-Kassel ("German principality")
• Austrian Habsburg Monarchy ("European great power")
• Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period ("European great power")
• Saxony ("former kingdom")
• Habsburg Netherlands ("former monarchy territory")
• Batavian Republic ("historical country")
• Byzantine Empire ("successor state of the Roman Empire")
• Roman Empire ("historical empire")
• Western Roman Empire ("former empire")
• Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka) ("historical kingdom")
• Andorra ("principality")
• Principality of Orange ("former principality")
• Sikh Empire ("historical empire")
• Kingdom of Naples ("former kingdom")
• Second Spanish Republic
• Kingdom of Sicily ("historical kingdom")
• Nazi Germany ("historical country")
• Second Polish Republic ("historical country")
• Durrani Empire ("historical empire")
• Kingdom of Sardinia ("historical state")
• North Macedonia ("Balkan country")
• Irish Free State
• Dutch Republic
• Electorate of Cologne ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Principality of Catalonia ("former principality")
• Hyderabad State ("princely state")
• Aztec Empire ("pre-Columbian state")
• Swedish Empire ("former empire")
• Kingdom of Ireland ("former kingdom")
• Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti ("historical state")
• Francoist Spain ("historical state")
• Liechtenstein ("principality")
• House of Lippe ("principality")
• Kingdom of Georgia ("former monarchy")
• United Kingdom of the Netherlands ("historical state")
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• First Mexican Republic ("historical state")
• Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) ("Polish state")
• Republic of Vietnam
• Jhansi ("princely state")
• First Bulgarian Empire ("historical state")
• Savoy ("historical state")
• Dominion of Canada ("former political entity")
• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ("historical state")
• Zulu Kingdom ("historical kingdom")
• Roman Kingdom ("historical state")
• Fatimid Caliphate ("Islamic state")
• Third Reich ("historical state")
• Maurya Empire ("historical state")
• French First Republic
• German Empire
• Weimar Republic ("historical state")
• British Guiana ("historical country")
• Srivijaya Empire ("historical kingdom")
• British Empire ("historical empire")
• Aragon ("former kingdom")
• Castile ("historical kingdom")
• United Provinces ("historical state")
• Prince-Bishopric of Liège (de facto influence) ("ecclesiastical principality")
• United Colonies ("predecessor state of the United States of America")
• Orange Free State
• First French Empire ("historical empire")
• Malacca Sultanate ("historical state")
• Johor Sultanate ("Islamic state")
• Pattani Sultanate ("former state")
• Free Territory of Trieste
• Gupta Empire ("historical empire")
• French Fourth Republic
• French Third Republic
• Pisa ("former maritime republic")
• Pala Empire ("historical empire")
• French Second Republic ("historical state")
• Bengal Sultanate ("Islamic state")
• Ottoman Empire ("Islamic state")
• Porbandar State, Kathiawar Agency, British India ("princely state")
• Duchy of Savoy ("historical state")
• Tsardom of Russia ("former state")
• Republic of Texas
• Song dynasty ("historical state")
• Duchy of Apulia and Calabria ("former state")
• Republic of Yucatán
• Ming dynasty ("historical state")
• Soviet Union
• Muscovy ("historical state")
• Duchy of Warsaw ("historical state")
• Qing dynasty ("historical state")
• Rashidun Caliphate ("Caliphate")
• Soviet–Hungarian relations ("short-lived communist state")
• Korean Empire ("historical country")
• Kyivan Rus ("medieval state")
• Visigothic Kingdom ("historical kingdom")
• Seventeen Provinces ("Habsburg territory")
• Kingdom of Navarre ("historical kingdom")
• Duchy of Milan ("former state")
• Second Empire of France
• Kingdom of Granada ("historical kingdom")
• West Ukrainian People’s Republic ("former state")
• County of Nassau-Dillenburg ("former state")
• Kingdom of Bavaria
• Bagratid Armenia ("historical state")
• Torwa state ("historical state")
• County of Nassau-Weilburg ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Dominion of New England ("former political entity")
• Cilician Armenia ("historical state")
• County of Nassau-Siegen ("former state")
• First Republic of Armenia ("historical country")
• County of Nassau-Idstein ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Kingdom of Hungary ("historical state")
• County of Nassau-Hadamar ("former principality")
• Kingdom of Valencia ("former kingdom")
• Waldeck ("former principality")
• County of Nassau-Beilstein ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ("historical kingdom")
• Papal States
• Kingdom of Aragon ("former kingdom")
• Qajar Iran ("historical country")
• Aksumite Empire ("historical empire")
• Caliphate of Córdoba ("Islamic state")
• Kosovo ("Balkan state")
• Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ("former state")
• Kingdom of León ("former monarchy")
• Vandal Kingdom ("historical kingdom")
• Kingdom of the Lombards ("former monarchy")
• Unfederated Malay States ("former political entity")
• Congress Poland ("Polish state")
• Kalmar Union ("historical state")
• Corsican Republic ("historical state")
• Electorate of Bavaria ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Khanate of Bukhara ("historical state")
• Kingdom of Kurdistan ("former monarchy")
• Natalia Republic ("historical state")
• Palmyrene Empire ("historical empire")
• Kingdom of Galicia ("historical kingdom")
• Schleswig-Holstein ("German state")
• Democratic Republic of Georgia ("historical state")
• Khanate of Khiva ("khanate")
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Napoleonic) ("former state")
• Kokand Khanate ("historical state")
• Free People’s State of Württemberg ("former state")
• Duchy of Limburg ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Old Swiss Confederacy ("historical state")
• French Morocco ("former political entity")
• Duchy of Florence ("former state")
• Mamluk Sultanate ("Islamic state")
• Mongol Ilkhanate ("historical state")
• North German Confederation ("historical state")
• León ("former kingdom")
• Republic of Florence ("historical state")
• Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ("principality")
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany ("former state")
• Duchy of Lorraine ("former state")
• Kushan Empire ("historical empire")
• Gran Colombia
• Crimean Khanate ("historical state")
• Kingdom of Wessex ("former monarchy")
• Duchy of Guelders ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Duchy of Anjou ("former political entity")
• Lordship of Mechelen ("former polity")
• Duchy of Athens ("former monarchy")
• Kingdom of Scotland
• Russian Empire ("former empire")
• Prince-Archbishopric of Mainz ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Oude ("former princely state")
• Prince-Archbishopric of Trier ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Mahdist Sudan ("Islamic state")
• Grand Duchy of Baden ("former state")
• Kingdom of Jaén ("historical kingdom")
• Ife Kingdom ("historical kingdom")
• Grand Duchy of Berg ("former state")
• Kingdom of Seville ("former kingdom")
• Kingdom of Westphalia ("former kingdom")
• Kingdom of Murcia ("former kingdom")
• Roman Republic ("historical state")
• County of Holland ("former political entity")
• CSA ("breakaway state")
• Transnistria ("breakaway state")
• Grand Duchy of Lithuania ("historical state")
• Sokoto Caliphate ("Caliphate")
• Bornu Empire ("historical empire")
• Lombardy–Venetia ("historical state")
• French Empire ("historical empire")
• Ansbach-Bayreuth ("principality")
• Second Bulgarian Empire ("medieval state")
• Ethiopian Empire ("historical empire")
• Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Duchy of Nassau ("former state")
• County of Nassau ("former principality")
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ("former state")
• Mewar ("former princely state")
• Scindia of Gwalior ("princely state")
• Kingdom of Majorca ("former kingdom")
• Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim ("ecclesiastical principality")
• County of Bentheim ("former state")
• Prince-Bishopric of Minden ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Burgundian Netherlands ("former monarchy")
• Chagatai Khanate ("khanate")
• Kingdom of Bulgaria ("historical country")
• Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Kingdom of Serbia ("historical country")
• Yuan dynasty ("historical state")
• Ghana Empire ("historical empire")
• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ("former political entity")
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ("historical country")
• Kingdom of Odoacer ("historical state")
• Mali Empire ("historical empire")
• Songhai Empire ("historical empire")
• First Republic of Venezuela
• Umayyad Caliphate ("Caliphate")
• Northern Yuan dynasty ("historical state")
• Jaitpur ("princely state")
• Habsburg Spain ("historical state")
• Baghat ("princely state")
• Golden Horde ("historical state")
• Novgorod Republic ("medieval state")
• Grand Duchy of Vladimir ("former monarchy")
• Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("principality")
• Maratha Empire ("historical empire")
• Wolof Empire ("historical empire")
• Oudh ("former princely state")
• Grand Duchy of Moscow ("medieval state")
• Duchy of Württemberg ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• dissolution of the Soviet Union ("state dissolution")
• Kingdom of France
• Aden Protectorate ("former political entity")
• United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
• United Provinces of Central America ("former federal republic")
• Champa ("historical kingdom")
• Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ("former monarchy")
• Wallachia ("former principality")
• Duchy of Parma
• Kingdom of Imereti ("historical kingdom")
• British Mandate for Palestine ("former political entity")
• Teutonic Order ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Emirate of Afghanistan ("historical state")
• Duchy of Lucca ("former state")
• Principality of Guria ("former monarchy")
• Judicate of Arborea ("former state")
• Kingdom of Etruria ("former kingdom")
• Prince-elector of Cologne ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Duchy of Mecklenburg ("former principality")
• United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
• First Mexican Empire ("former empire")
• Gwalior State ("princely state")
• Nassau ("former state")
• French Consulate ("former government of France")
• Princely State of Porbandar ("princely state")
• Afsharid Empire ("historical empire")
• Parthian Empire ("historical state")
• Sasanian Empire ("historical state")
• Kingdom of Italy ("former monarchy")
• British Iraq Mandate ("former political entity")
• Travancore ("princely state")
• Duchy of Austria ("former state")
• Free State ("former independent Boer republic")
• Kingdom of England
• Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon ("historical political entities")
• First Philippine Republic ("historical state")
• Free City of Danzig ("semi-autonomous city-state")
• Kingdom of Württemberg ("former kingdom")
• County of Loon ("former principality")
• County of Ravensberg ("former state")
• Kingdom of the East Angles ("former monarchy")
• Crown of Castile ("historical kingdom")
• Kingdom of Croatia ("historical kingdom")
• Duchy of Burgundy ("medieval state")
• AEF ("former political entity")
• Confederate States of America ("breakaway state")
• West Germany
• Kingdom of Poland ("historical state")
• Kingdom of Kotte ("historical kingdom")
• Trust Territory of Cameroon under French administration ("former political entity")
• Great Moravia ("medieval state")
• Abbasid Caliphate ("Caliphate")
• Russian SFSR ("former socialist state")
• Kingdom of Iberia ("historical state")
• Jin dynasty ("historical state")
• Iberia (ancient kingdom) ("historical country")
• Bishopric of Arras ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Chinese Soviet Republic ("former socialist state")
• Electoral Palatinate ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Serbian Empire ("historical state")
• Anhalt-Zerbst ("principality")
• Duchy of Mark ("former state")
• Kingdom of the Franks ("historical state")
• Netherlands Antilles ("former political entity")
• Electorate of Saxony ("state of the Holy Roman Empire")
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Crown of Aragon ("medieval state")
• Khmer Empire ("historical empire")
• Bishopric of Mechelen ("ecclesiastical principality")
• Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach ("former state")
• Dutch East Indies ("historical country")
• Bulgaria ("medieval state")