| @Tolstoy: Although it is a great quiz which has taught me a lot I think your source is flawed. These are supposed to be sovereign states which the same source defines as: "a political association with effective internal and external sovereignty over a geographic area and population which is not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state." I would not disagree with the definition, but many of the states which no longer exist were only internally autonomous. Beihan, Upper Aulaqi, Upper Yafa, Wahidi Blhaf and Wahidi Haban were all part of the British Protectorate of Aden. Champasak was part of French Indo-China. The Toro Kingdom was part of the British colony of Uganda. Tui Manuʻa was an autonomous chief within the Kingdom of Samoa. Acre and Negros were short lived insurgency movements in Bolivia and the Philippines respectively and never had international recognition. The only extinct states that were really sovereign are therefore Aro, Dhala. Ha'il, Kano, Kuba, Orange Free State, Ouaddai, Sokoto and arguably Tavolana the last named is a bit of a joke based on an historic anomoly (2 sq miles and 55 people does not really constitute as sovereign state). In addition, Canada was only internally fully autonomous until the 1930s and does not appear on later lists from the same source. In 1899 Swaziland was a protectorate of The South African Republic and then the UK after the outbreak of the 2nd Boer War. You have omitted the South African Republic which was an independent sovereign state from 1856–1877 and 1881–1902 before being annexed by the British Empire. It had the same status as the Orange Free State. |
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