Talk:Republic of Zamboanga

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Not a sovereign state
The Republic of Zamboanga was not a sovereign republic. It was an insurgent revolutionary government. I have made a WP:BOLD edit to the article to that effect.

The revolutionary government which is the topic of this article, like other short-lived insurgent revolutionary governments in the Philippines around the time of the Spanish-American War and the transfer of sovereignty over the Philippines from Spain to the United States via the 1898 Treaty of Paris. Things around that time were complicated by the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Revolution, the Philippine-American War, and local revolutions like the one in Zamboanga, but none of the revolutionary governments which grew out of those local revolutions matured into sovereign states. See the Sovereignty of the Philippines article and elsewhere. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:20, 22 March 2020 (UTC)