8 sentences with “republics”

Citizens regarded their respective states as sovereign republics and protected their prerogatives against other states.

Ultimately, all revolutions "failed" in their immediate goals of creating liberal republics, not to mention socialist dreams of state workshops for the unemployed.

In 172 BC Rome sent an army and Macedonia was defeated in 168 BC. Rome divided Macedonia into puppet republics, plundered Macedonian allies and lorded it over the remaining Greek polis.

Thus, between 405 BC and 338 BC, the old order of hoplites and republics atrophied, being replaced by oligarchic councils or tyrants in the stronger polis and states, supported by taxation.

By the end of the 18th century, republics were rare. Genoa, Venice and the Dutch Republic offered examples of states without monarchs, but many European Enlightenment thinkers questioned the stability of a republic.

The state constitutions of the new United States illustrate different approaches to the question of the degree of democracy that would prevail in the thirteen republics. Some states adopted democratic practices, while others adopted much more aristocratic and republican ones.

Until 1991, Yugoslavia consisted of six federative republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. In a territory of just over 225,000 square kilometres, a population with profound internal differences in language, religion, alphabet and cultural tendencies coexisted.

Second Boer War: By the beginning of the twentieth century, New Zealand was already engaged in its first overseas military campaign, the Second Boer War, in which it helped the British Empire fight against the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic). There were two notable campaigns in 1900: