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This is a list of Countries, Dependencies, Political & Territorial Entities, Anarchist areas & Provisional governments that lasted for five years or less.[1][2]
Criteria
edit- All countries are dated since 1 CE
- All states have to have survived for no less than Five years.
- Had de facto control over a territory or a significant portion of its territory
Africa
editName | Date | Capital | Now Part Of | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republic of Swellendam | 1795 | Swellendam | South Africa | The Boer Republic was declared as a revolt to the maladministration and inadequacies of the Dutch East India Company |
Republic of Graaff-Reinet | 1795–1796 | Graaff-Reinet | In the town of Graaff-Reinet the boers were who were annoyed by the taxation of the Dutch East India Company, proclaimed themselves to be the independent "Colony of Graaff-Reinet | |
Republic of Klip River | 1847–1848 | Ladysmith | After buying land of the Zulu king Mpande a group of boers settled in an area now known as Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal and led by their leader Andries Spies they declared the Republic of the Klip River, later annexed by the UK the same year | |
Klipdrift Republic | 1870–1871 | Klipdrift | The Klipdrift Republic was a Boer republic declared in Griqualand West by Stafford Parker | |
Republic of Stellaland | 1882–1883 | Vryburg | A boer republic for it's short existence was an important factor in the lead up to the Second Boer War, later merged with the State of Goshen to become the United States of Stellaland | |
State of Goshen | Rooigrond & Mafikeng | A short lived Boer republic, later merged with the Republic of Stellaland | ||
South African Republic | 1914-1915 | Pretoria | The republic was a failed attempt to recreate Transvaal during the Maritz rebellion | |
Western Galla Confederation[3] | 1936 | Gore | Ethiopia | Also known as the Macha Oromo Confederation, it was an Oromo separatist movement in Abyssinia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War |
French Committee of National Liberation[4] | 1943–44 | Algiers | Algeria | During the Second World War the Free French in the French territories in Africa declared the provisional government |
Kingdom of Tunisia[5] | 1956–1957 | Tunis | Tunisia | The kingdom a short lived monarchy just after Tunisian independence |
Sultanate of M'Simbati[6] | 1959 | ? | Tanzania | A micronation declared by Englishman Latham Leslie Moore in 1959 |
Mali Federation[7][8] | 1959-1960 | Dakar | Senegal & Mali | Was a short lived member of the French Community until it broke into Senegal and Mali |
State of Somaliland[9] | 1960 | Hargeisa | Somaliland (De Facto) Somalia (De Jure) | The state of Somaliland existed for five days as the Trust Territory of Somaliland was finalising its independence from Italy |
Dominion of Uganda[10] | 1962–1963 | Kampala | Uganda | After Uganda was granted independence the British monarch, Elizabeth II, remained head of state as Queen of Uganda for precisley one year |
Dominion of Kenya[11] | 1963–1964 | Nairobi | Kenya | After Kenya was granted independence the British monarch, Elizabeth II, remained head of state as Queen of Kenya |
First Nigerian Republic[12] | 1963-1966 | Lagos | Nigeria | After the Independence of Nigeria the first Nigerian Republic took over, it was disposed of after a military coup three years later. |
Rhodesia | 1964-1965 | Harare | Zimbabwe | Was a British protectorate, now known as Zimbabwe |
Niger Delta Republic[13] | 1966 | ? | Nigeria | A short lived state declared by Isaac Adaka Boro a soldier and Niger Delta activist |
Republic of Benin[14] | 1967 | Benin City | The republic was a Biafran puppet state set up in the Nigerian city of Benin City | |
Nile Provisional Government | 1969-1970 | Juba | South Sudan | Formed out of the failed Southern Sudan Provisional Government as an attempt to rebrand the nation from South Sudan to the Nile Republic |
Martyazo | 1972 | Commune of Vugizo | Burundi | A short lived secessionist state established by Hutu rebels in the Commune of Vugizo |
Republic of Cabinda | 1975–1976 | Cabinda | Angola | A sepratist state declared by Cabindan nationalist groups the Liberation Front of the State of Cabinda and the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda after Angolan independence |
Zimbabwe Rhodesia | 1979–1980 | Salisbury | Zimbabwe | A transitional government established by the British to transfer authority from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe |
National Revolutionary Council of the Gambia | 1981 | Banjul | The Gambia | The revolutionary council was set up by Kukoi Sanyang to govern The Gambia after the 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt |
Mohéli | 1997-1998 | Fomboni | Comoros | Along with Anjouan in 1997 they both sceded from the Comoros Anjouan lasted until 2002 and Mohéli agreed to join back to the union in 1998 |
Jubaland | 1998-1999 | Bu'ale | Somalia | During the Somali civil war General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan declared the independence of Jubaland |
Caprivi | 1999 | ? | Namibia | A state declared by the Caprivi Liberation Army during the short lived Caprivi conflict[15] |
State of Anjouan[16] | 2007-2008 | Mutsamudu | Comoros | A state declared Mohamed Bacar after holding an illegal election in June, the state was soon dissolved during the Invasion of Anjouan & Mohamed Bacar exiled |
National Transitional Council[17] | 2011-2012 | Tripoli | Libya | A unitary transitional government established to transition from the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the State of Libya |
Azawad[18][19][20] | 2012 | Timbuktu (proclaimed) Gao (provisional) |
Mali | A seccionist state declared by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad in northern Mali during the Tuareg rebellion |
Asia
editName | Date | Capital | Now Part Of | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Free Ilocos | 1762–1763 | Vigan | Philippines | A short lived revolutionary state declared by Diego Silang in Northern Luzon during the British occupation of Manila |
Republic of Ezo[21] | 1869 | Hakodate | Japan | Also known as the Republic of Japan the Republic of Ezo was a short lived separatist state established in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido |
Kingdom of Sedang | 1888-1889 | Kon Gung | Vietnam | A ephemeral state declared by French explorer Marie-Charles David de Mayréna after the governor of French Indochina sent him to negotiate treaties with the Kingdom of Siam after they started claiming parts of French Indochina, but instead allied with other tribes to declare the Kingdom of Sedang, the kingdom was dissolved shortly after when Marie was captured by the French Navy |
Republic of Formosa[22] | 1895 | Taipei & Tainan | Taiwan | The inhabitants of the island of Taiwan declared themselves independent in response to the Qing Dynastys move to scecede the island to Japan |
Tejeros Revolutionary Government | 1897 | General Trias | Philipines | |
Republic of Biak-na-Bato | San Miguel | The republic of Biak-na-bato was a philipino revolutionary government declared by solier Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine Revolution | ||
Dictatorial Government of the Philippines | 1898 | Bacoor | The Government was a filipino insurgent government in Bacoor during the Spanish–American War | |
Revolutionary Government of the Philippines | Bacoor & Malolos | A revolutionary government set up by Emilio Aguinaldo during Spanish–American War | ||
Republic of Negros | 1898–1899 | Bacolod | The republic was a short lived revolutionary state on the island, it later became the Federal State of the Visayas | |
Heavenly Kingdom of the Great Mingshun | 1903 | Guangzhou | China | A short lived attempt at establashing a Westernised Monarchy in china by the Revive China Society |
Empire of China | 1915–1916 | Peking | A short lived attempt to reinstate monarchy in China by Yuan Shikai | |
Yakutia | 1918 | Yakutsk | Russia | A short lived uprising by Yakuts in support of the White Army |
Provisional Siberian Government | Omsk | Short lived attempts of a government set up by the White Army | ||
Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia | Vladivostok | |||
Siberian Republic | Omsk | An short lived attempt attempt at Siberian regionalism | ||
Provisional Regional Government of the Urals | Yekaterinburg | An anti-Bolshevik government set up in Yekaterinburg | ||
Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus[23] | 1918–1919 | Kars | Turkey | A pro-Turkish provisional government established in the aftermath of the Armistice of Mudros to stop the area being incorporated into the First Republic of Armenia |
Mughan Soviet Republic [citation needed] | 1919 | Lankaran | Azerbaijan | A short lived pro-Bolshevik state in southeastern Azerbaijan |
Ferghana Provisional Government | 1919-1920 | Osh | Kyrgyzstan | A polity set up by the Basmachi movement led by Madame Bey |
Arab Kingdom of Syria[24] | Damascus | Syria | A short lived constitutional monarchy led by Faisal I of Iraq | |
Provisional Government of the Far East | 1920 | Vladivostok | Russia | An Anti-White state established around Vladivostok later incorporated into the pro-Bolsheviks Far Eastern Republic and the pro-White Provisional Priamurye Government |
South Russian Government | Novorossiysk | The Successsor of Anton Denikin's General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia | ||
Government of South Russia | Sevastopol | A short lived White Government established as the successor of Anton Denikin's South Russian Government by Pyotr Wrangel in Crimea | ||
Eastern Okraina | Chita | After the defeat of White forces in Western Siberia Alexander Kolchak ordered Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov to evacuate their forces to the territory of Russia's eastern outskirts | ||
Azadistan | Tabriz | Iran | A short lived state in Iranian Azerbaijan established by Mohammad Khiabani | |
Persian Socialist Soviet Republic | 1920–1921 | Rasht | A soviet republic declared by revolutionary leader Mirza Kuchik Khan and the Jungle Movement of Gilan | |
Republic of China Military Government | Guangzhou | China | A military government centered around the Second Constitutional Protection Movement | |
Autonomous Government of Khorasan | 1921 | Rasht | Iran | A short lived military state established by warlord Mohammad Taqi Pessian |
Sharifian Caliphate[25] | 1924-1925 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | A caliphate declared by the Hejaz as the successor of the Ottoman Caliphate |
Hunan Soviet | 1927 | ? | China | A Communist-controlled China (1927–1949) insurrection led by Mao Zedong and Li Zhen in the Hunan and Jiangxi areas |
Guangzhou Commune[26] | Guangzhou | A political structure established in Guangzhou during the Guangzhou Uprising, also called the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Peasant Deputies | ||
Emirate of Afghanistan | 1929 | Kabul | Afghanistan | An unrecognised state declared by Saqqawists on the territory that they held during the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)[27] |
Nghệ-Tĩnh Soviet | 1930–1931 | ? | Vietnam | A series of uprisings against French Indochina in the Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh Provinces |
Kumul Khanate | 1931-1934 | Kumul | China | A rebellion led by Uyghur chieftain and Kuomintang general Yulbars Khan to restore the Kumul Khanate and the heir to the throne, Nasir. |
Northeast Supreme Administrative Council | 1932 | Changchun | The forerunner of Japanese puppet state Manchukuo | |
First East Turkestan Republic | 1933–1934 | Kashgar | The republic was a short lived unrecognized breakaway Islamic Uyghur state in northwestern China | |
People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China | Fuzhou | Also known as the Fujian People's Government, it was a short lived anti-Kuomintang socialist state established in the Fujian Province | ||
Northwest Chinese Soviet Federation | 1935–1936 | Mao County, Barkam, Jinchuan County & Garzê County | A confederation of two ethnic minority governments, the Tibetan People's Republic and Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Geledesha | |
Great Way Government | 1937–1938 | Pudong | A puppet government established to govern Japanese occupied Shanghai in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War | |
Hatay State | 1938–1939 | Antakya | Turkey | A transitional government located in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta before becomig the Hatay Province of Turkey |
Free Republic of Nias | 1942 | Gunungsitoli | Indonesia | A short lived state established by escaped Nazis after their ship that they were being held on was bombed by the Japanese.[28] |
Inner Mongolian People's Republic | 1945 | Sonid Right Banner | China | After the dissolution of the Japanese puppet Mengjiang, A congress of "People's Representatives" was held and the socialist Inner Mongolian People's Republic was declared, it was later conquered by China fearing separatism.[29] |
Kingdom of Luang Phrabang | Luang Prabang | Laos | A short lived Japanese puppet state, lead by Prince Phetsarath Ratanavongsa | |
Empire of Vietnam | Huế | Vietnam | A puppet state of Japan in the French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin | |
Kingdom of Kampuchea | Phnom Penh | Cambodia | A short lived Japanese puppet state | |
Lao Issara | 1945–1946 | Vientiane & Luang Prabang | Laos | An anti-French state established in the aftermath of World War Two |
Azerbaijan People's Government | Tabriz | Iran | A short lived Soviet satellite state in the Iranian Azerbaijan area. | |
People's Republic of Korea | Seoul | South Korea & North Korea | A provisional government established in the withdrawl of the Japanese in Korea, later occupied by the Soviet Union in the north and the United States in the south | |
Republic of Mahabad | 1946–1947 | Mahabad | Iran | A Kurdish Soviet satellite state established alongside the Azerbaijan People's Government |
Provisional People's Committee for North Korea | Pyongyang | North Korea | A provisional government established as the successor of the Soviet Civil Administration | |
Khanate of Kalat | 1947–1948 | Kalat | Pakistan | A Princely state that was briefly independent before Ahmad of Kalat the ruler of the Khanate acceded to Pakistan |
Hyderabad State | Hyderabad | India | During the independence of India all Princely States were given the option to join India or Pakistan or have independence. The Muslim Nizams who ruled the predominantly Hindu state chose independence. The Indians later invaded and annexed Hyderabad during Operation Polo | |
Junagadh State | Junagadh | During the independence of India all Princely States were given the option to join India or Pakistan or have independence. The Nawab of Junagadh Muhammad Mahabat Khan III chose for Junagadh and it's vassal Bantva Manavadar to go with Pakistan until later that year they chose to remain independent until the Indian invasion of them during that year | ||
Bantva Manavadar | Junagadh | |||
People's Committee of North Korea | Pyongyang | North Korea | A pro-Soviet Provisional Government that oversaw the transition from Soviet occupation in northern Korea to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | |
Government of the National Front of the Region of Madiun | 1948 | Madiun | Indonesia | A failed attempt at a communist uprising. |
Provisional Central Government of Vietnam | 1948–1949 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | A French-associated transitional government established in the protectorates of Tonkin and Annam until Cochinchina reunited and founded the State of Vietnam |
United States of Indonesia | 1949–1950 | Jakarta | Indonesia | A short lived federal state established after Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands, succeeded by the unitary Republic of Indonesia |
Arab Federation | 1958 | Baghdad | Iraq & Jordan | A short lived confederation between the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and Kingdom of Jordan. |
Second Republic of Korea | 1960–1961 | Seoul | South Korea | Founded during the April Revolution against the current president Syngman Rhee |
United Nations Temporary Executive Authority | 1962-1963 | Jayapura | Indonesia | A civil administration established to facilitate the transition of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia |
Shanghai People's Commune | 1967 | Shanghai | China | A Maoist commune established during the January Storm by future Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Chunqiao. |
Emirate of Abu Dhabi | 1971 | Abu Dhabi | UAE | After the independence of the Trucial States, Six of the Emirates—Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah—formed the United Arab Emirates, with Ras Al Khaimah joining later in 1972 |
Emirate of Ajman | Ajman | |||
Emirate of Dubai | Dubai | |||
Emirate of Fujairah | Fujairah | |||
Emirate of Sharjah | Sharjah | |||
Emirate of Umm Al Quwain | Umm Al Quwain | |||
Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah | 1971-1972 | Ras Al Khaimah | ||
People's Republic of Tyre | 1975-1976 | Tyre | Lebanon | A short lived, PLO controlled, state-within-a-state during the Lebanese Civil Warafter the takeover of the city of Tyre. |
Republic of South Vietnam[30] | Tây Ninh (1969–1972) Lộc Ninh (1972–1973) Cam Lộ (1973–1975) Saigon – Gia Dinh (1975–1976) |
Vietnam | A puppet government of North Vietnam formed from the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam shadow government. | |
Provisional Government of East Timor | Dili | East Timor | An Indonesian puppet provisional government, that was formed following the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975, and disbanded after the annexation of the area by Indonesia in July 1976 to become the Timor Timur province. | |
Interim Government of Iran[citation needed] | 1979 | Tehran | Iran | |
Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan | 1980 | ? | Afghanistan | A small Salafist state located in the northern Bashgal Valley founded by cleric Mawlawi Afzal during the Afghan mujahideen insurgency. |
Federal Republic of Mindanao | 1986 | Cagayan de Oro | Philippines | A Breakaway state state declared by former Mayor of Cagayan de Oro and leader of the Mindanao People's Democratic Movement, Reuben Canoy. |
Republic of Kuwait | 1990 | Kuwait City | Kuwait | A self-styled Iraqi puppet government established in the aftermath of the Invasion of Kuwait by Ba'athist Iraq and was later annexed to become the Iraqi governate of Kuwait and the military occupied Saddamiyat al-Mitla' District. |
Second Federal Republic of Mindanao | Cagayan de Oro | Philippines | A revolt led by Alexander Noble, a dissident Philippine Army colonel and his supporters after seized two garrisons in Cagayan de Oro and Butuan as an attempted coup against president Corazon Aquino | |
Islamic Emirate of Kunar | 1991 | Asadabad | Afghanistan | A short lived, Salafist, quasi-state in the Kunar Province led by Jamil al-Rahman and his group Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah |
Kurdish Republic of Lachin | 1992 | Lachin | Azerbaijan | A state declared by Kurdish nationalists in the former region of Kurdistan Uezd, but was dissolved later that year during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. |
Gorno-Badakhshan Republic | Khorugh | Tajikistan | After the outbreak of the Tajikistani Civil War, the local government of Gorno-Badakhshan declared itself independent, but later backed down on the declaration. | |
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia | 1992-1993 | Phnom Penh | Cambodia | A United Nations peacekeeping administration formed after the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements. |
Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic[31] | 1993 | Lankaran | Azerbaijan | A automomous republic declared by Talysh nationalist Colonel Alikram Hummatov during the 1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état against, the first and only democratically elected President in post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Abulfaz Elchibey |
Democratic Republic of Yemen | 1994 | Aden | Yemen | Also known as South Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Yemen, declared during the 1994 Yemeni Civil War, encompassed the entirety of the former state of South Yemen. |
Islamic Emirate of Badakhshan | 1996 | Badakhshan | Afghanistan | n unrecognised Islamic State in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan established by supporters of Burhanuddin Rabbani & Ahmad Shah Massoud. |
Islamic Emirate of Byara | 2001-2003 | Byara | Iraq | A Kurdish Islamic state established by Ansar al-Islam, Kurdistan Islamic Group and Kurdistan Islamic Movement. It was dissolved in 2003 by Operation Viking Hammer |
Islamic Emirate of Rafah[32] | 2009 | Rafah | Gaza Strip | A short-lived unrecognized Islamic state established two years after the Hamas takeover of Gaza and later collapsed after the 2009 Battle of Rafah |
Bangsamoro Republik | 2013 | Davao City[33] (de jure) Zamboanga City (de facto) |
Philipines | A breakaway state declared by Nur Misuari, the leader of the Moro National Liberation Front in an attempt to create a nation for the Moro people |
Goyce Zengezur Turkish Republic[34][35][36] | 2022 | ? | Azerbaijan | The Goyce-Zengezur Turkish Republic was a short-lived, self-proclaimed state declared in 2022 in Southern Armenia region, aiming to establish Turkish governance. |
Europe
editNorth America
editOceania
editName | Date | Capital | Now Part Of |
---|---|---|---|
Australian Empire | 1804 | Castle Hill, New South Wales | Australia |
Independent Commune of Franceville[87] | 1889–1890 | Port Vila | Vanutu |
Provisional Government of Hawaii | 1893–1894 | Honolulu | United States |
Republic of Minerva[88][89] | 1972 | none | Tonga |
Tanna Nation | 1974 | Lenakel | Vanuatu |
Republic of the North Solomons | 1975–1976 | Arawa | Papua New Guinea |
People's Provisional Government of Vanuatu | 1977–1978 | Port Vila | Vanutu |
Tafea Nation | 1980 | Lenakel | |
Republic of Vemerana | Luganville | ||
N'Makiaute[90][91] | Lakatoro | ||
Republic of Rotuma[92] | 1987–1988 | Ituʻtiʻu | Fiji |
Republic of West Melanesia | 1988 | Jayapura | Indonesia |
South America
editAntartica
editName | Date | Capital | Now Part Of | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Yamato Yukihara | 1912 | N/A | Ross Dependency | An unrecognised Japanese Antarctic claim made by Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, spanning the entirety of the Ross Ice Shelf, but was not recognised by the Japanese government. |
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