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- Add from Federation, Confederation
- Define sovereign (eg. Canada) vs not (eg. French Indochina)
- Define devolved (powers can be retracted?; eg. RSA), federation (can’t be but can’t leave?; eg. Canada), confederation (can’t be and can leave?; eg. EU)
- South Africa? E Germany until 1952
Pointers!!:
- Determine which are sovereign (and when/from whom) with List of sovereign states by date of formation
- Determine which are federations according to Forum of Federations’s online country profiles
- Subdivisions from List of administrative divisions by country
Current sovereign federations
[edit]Federated to aid colonial governance
[edit]Fed. | Sov. | Name | Reason |
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1901 | 1931 | Australia | |
1867 | 1931 | Canada | Three British colonies joined to counter American influence. |
1957 | 1963 | Malaysia | |
1882 | 1983 | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Federated to calm internal tensions
[edit]Federated upon colonial independence
[edit]Fed. | Sov. | Name | Reason |
---|---|---|---|
1947 | 1947 | India | |
1947 | 1947 | Pakistan |
Federated upon revolution
[edit]Fed. | Sov. | Common name | Reason |
---|---|---|---|
1917 | 1991 | Russia | Former parts of the Russian Empire joined under "socialist federalism". |
1789 | 1776 | United States | Thirteen British colonies joined in revolt against the United Kingdom. |
Unsorted
[edit]wiki says | Fed. | Sov. | Common name | Previously | Reason |
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1853 | 1816 | Argentina | Spanish… | ||
1949 | 1955 | Germany | |||
1824 | 1821 | Mexico | Spanish… | ||
1848 | 1815 | Switzerland | |||
1863 | Venezuela | Spanish… | |||
1889 | Brazil | Portuguese… | |||
1960[1] | Nigeria | British… | |||
1971 | United Arab Emirates | British… | |||
1975 | Comoros | French… | |||
1979 | Micronesia | American… | |||
1920 | Austria | ||||
1993 | Belgium | ||||
1995 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||
1995 | Ethiopia | ||||
2005 | Iraq | ||||
2011 | South Sudan | ||||
2012 | Somalia | ||||
2015 | Nepal |
Notable former sovereign federations
[edit] Also a federation
As compromise to internal division
[edit]From | Until | Common name | Previously | Fate |
---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | 2011 | Sudan | Became a unitary state after the independence of South Sudan |
Superseded another federation
[edit]From | Until | Common name | Previously | Fate |
---|---|---|---|---|
1871 | 1918 | German Empire | North German Confederation | Superseded by the Weimar Republic |
1919 | 1933 | Weimar Republic | German Empire | Superseded by Nazi Germany |
1934 | 1938 | Federal State of Austria | Republic of Austria | Superseded by Nazi Germany |
Upon colonial independence
[edit]From | Until | Common name | Previously | Fate |
---|---|---|---|---|
1951 | 1963 | United Kingdom of Libya | Italian… | Became a unitary state |
1957 | 1963 | Malaya | British… | Superseded by Malaysia |
1960 | 1964 | Congo-Léopoldville | Belgian… | Became a unitary state |
1961 | 1972 | Cameroon | French… | Became a unitary state |
Unsorted
[edit]From | Until | Name | Previously | Fate |
---|---|---|---|---|
1867 | 1871 | North German Confederation | Superseded by the German Empire | |
1867 | 1918 | Austria-Hungary | Dissolved | |
1919 | 1934 | Republic of Austria | German-Austria | Superseded by the Federal State of Austria |
1922 | 1991 | Soviet Union | Superseded by Russia |
Yet to go through
[edit]Some of the proclaimed Arab federations were confederations de facto.
American states
[edit]- Inca Empire (1197–1572)
- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation) (15th/16th century-1799)
- United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1825)
- Hispaniola (1822–1844)
- United Provinces of Central America (1823 – c. 1838)
- Peru–Bolivian Confederation (1836–1839)
- Confederation of New Granada (1858–1863)
- Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
- United States of Colombia (1863–1886)
- Gran Colombia
Eastern European states
[edit]- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)
- Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (1918)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1918–1992)
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic[2] (1969–1992)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003)
Notes
[edit]- ^ As the Federation of Nigeria; republic declared in 1963
- ^ Became Czech and Slovak Federative Republic through a constitutional change in 1990.