Former countries in Europe Former countries in Europe Ajaria ( Georgian აჭარა Ačara), officially the Autonomous Republic of Ajaria, (also known as Ajara, Adjaria, Adjara, Adzharia and Adzhara) is an autonomous republic of Georgia, in the southwestern corner of the country, bordered by Turkey to the south and the eastern end of the Black Sea. Previously it was also known as Adzharistan and Adzharian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Adzharian ASSR). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ajaria"
Alsace-Lorraine ( French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was the territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but returned by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which ended the Franco-Prussian War) and restored to France after World War I by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It was annexed by the German Third Reich in 1940, and again reverted to French control in 1945. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alsace-Lorraine"
Anhalt is a historical region of Germany, which is now included in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anhalt"
Anjou is a former county (c. 880), duchy ( 1360) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France. It corresponds largely to the present-day département of Maine-et-Loire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anjou"
Aragon ( Spanish and Aragonese: Aragón; Catalan: Aragó) is an autonomous community of north-eastern Spain. It has an area of 47,719 km² with a population of 1,217,514 (2003). ...more on Wikipedia about "Aragon"
Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Metz served as its primary capital, although some Austrasian kings ruled from Rheims also. ...more on Wikipedia about "Austrasia"
The Austrian Empire is the name for Austria during the time from 1804 - 1868. The Austrian Empire was founded as a reaction to the Napoleon I's re-organization of Germany. The Holy Roman Empire was abolished and Francis von Habsburg at this time Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II abdicated the title and instead proclaimed Austria - until then a German archduchy - the Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Austrian Empire"
Baden is a historical state in the southwest of Germany. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split into different lines, which were unified in 1771. It became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden, a sovereign country, through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803- 1806. It joined the German Empire in 1871, remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when it became part of the Weimar Republic. Baden was bounded to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt; to the west and practically throughout its whole length by the River Rhine, which separated it from the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate and Alsace in modern France ; to the south by Switzerland, and to the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and partly by Bavaria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baden"
The Banat Republic ( Romanian: Republica Bănăţeană, German: Banater Republik, Serbian: Banatska republika or Банатска република, Hungarian: Bánáti köztársaság) was a short-lived state, proclaimed in Temeschwar, on October 31, 1918, as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banat Republic"
The Serb-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic ( Serbian: Srpsko-mađarska republika Baranja-Baja or Српско-мађарска република Барања-Баја, Hungarian: Szerb-Magyar köztársaság Baranya-Baja) was a short-lived state, proclaimed on August 14, 1921. Its territory included the geographical region of Baranya and northern part of Bačka region. The president of the republic was Petar Dobrović. On August 21-25, 1921, the territory of the Republic was divided between Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (today Croatia), as was previously decided by the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baranya-Baja Republic"
From 1795 to 1806, the Batavian Republic (Bataafse Republiek in Dutch) designated the Netherlands as a republic modelled after the French Republic, to which it was a vassal state. ...more on Wikipedia about "Batavian Republic"
The Belarusian National Republic ( Belarusian: Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка, also translated as "Belarusian People's Republic", "Belarusian Democratic Republic", etc.) was pronounced on March 25, 1918 during World War I, when Belarus was occupied by Germans according to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In its Third Constituent Charter, the following territories were claimed for BNR: Mahileu guberniya (province), parts of Minsk, Hrodna (including Białystok), Vilnia, Viciebsk, and Smalensk guberniyas, as well as parts of bordering guberniyas. The areas were claimed because of a Belarusian majority according to demographic researches, although there were also numbers of Lithuanians, Poles and people speaking pidgins of Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish, as well as many Jews, mostly in towns and cities (in some towns they made up a majority). Some of the Jews spoke Russian as their native tongue, others spoke Yiddish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belarusian National Republic"
The Belarusian People's Republic ( Belarusian: Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка, eng. transliteration : Belaruskaya Narodnaya Republika) was the first independent Belarusian state in history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belarusian People's Republic"
The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (official name; German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is a port city in northern Germany and one of it's 16 Federal States (Bundesländer). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bremen (state)"
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Brunswick-Lüneburg was a historical state within the Holy Roman Empire. As the name implies, the main cities of this state were Brunswick and Lüneburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brunswick-Lüneburg"
Byzantine Empire ( Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the time before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it is also often referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire. There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period. Some place it during the reign of Diocletian ( 284– 305) due to the administrative reforms he introduced, dividing the empire into a pars Orientis and a pars Occidentis. Others place it during the reign of Theodosius I ( 379– 395) and Christendom's victory over paganism, or, following his death in 395, with the division of the empire into western and eastern halves. Others place it yet further in 476, when the last western emperor, Romulus Augustus, was forced to abdicate, thus leaving sole imperial authority to the emperor in the Greek East. In any case, the changeover was gradual and by 330, when Constantine I inaugurated his new capital, the process of further Hellenization and increasing Christianization was already underway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Byzantine Empire"
The term Carolingian Empire is sometimes used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the dynasty of the Carolingians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carolingian Empire"
Carpatho-Ukraine ( ) or was a short-lived Ukrainian state that formally existed for several days only in March, 1939 at the east-most part of Czechoslovakia and was an autonomous region within Czechoslovakia for several months prior to that. The state was crushed by Hungary which annexed the area between March 15 and March 18, 1939. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carpatho-Ukraine"
A former kingdom of Spain, Castile comprises the two regions of Old Castile in north-western Spain, and New Castile in the centre of the country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Castile"
:This article is about the historic territory of Catalonia. For the Spanish autonomous community, see Catalonia. For the historic part of Catalonia under French jurisdiction, see Northern Catalonia ...more on Wikipedia about "Catalonia (historic territory)"
Caucasian Albania (or Aghbania) was an ancient empire that covered what is now southern Dagestan and most of today's Azerbaijan of the Caucasus. For much of its history, the Azerbaijani are the descendants of Caucasian Albania. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caucasian Albania" Stay cool with www.shortopedia.com. Former_countries_in_Europe
The Central Franks were the lands of Lothar after the Treaty of Verdun. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Franks"
Central Lithuania ( Polish: Litwa Środkowa, Lithuanian: Vidurio Lietuva or Vidurinė Lietuva, Belarusian: Сярэдняя Літва / Siaredniaja Litva) was a semi-independent state, created in 1920 by allegedly rebellious soldiers of the Lithuanian- Belarusian division of the Polish Army. It was joined with Poland on March 24, 1922, following the parliamentary elections held there. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Lithuania"
The Cisrhenian Republic was a French client republic created in 1797 in the left side of the Rhine river, under French influence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cisrhenian republic"
The Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation (Rheinbund in German; in French officially États confédérés du Rhin but in practice Confédération du Rhin) lasted from 1806 to 1813 and was formed from sixteen German states by Napoleon after he defeated Habsburg's Francis II and Russia's Alexander I in the Battle of the Three Emperors at Austerlitz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Confederation of the Rhine"
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