User:Tundraski/sandbox16

Pointers!!:
 * Add from Federation, Confederation
 * Define sovereign (eg. Canada) vs not (eg. French Indochina)
 * Define devolved (powers can be retracted?; eg. RSA), federation (can’t be but can’t leave?; eg. Canada), confederation (can’t be and can leave?; eg. EU)
 * South Africa? E Germany until 1952


 * Determine which are sovereign (and when/from whom) with List of sovereign states by date of formation
 * Determine which are federations according to Forum of Federations’s online country profiles
 * Subdivisions from List of administrative divisions by country

Notable former sovereign federations
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Yet to go through
Some of the proclaimed Arab federations were confederations de facto.

American states

 * Inca Empire (1197–1572)
 * Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation) (15th/16th century-1799)
 * United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1825)
 * Hispaniola (1822–1844)
 * United Provinces of Central America (1823 – c. 1838)
 * Peru–Bolivian Confederation (1836–1839)
 * Confederation of New Granada (1858–1863)
 * Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
 * 🇨🇴 United States of Colombia (1863–1886)
 * Gran Colombia

Eastern European states

 * Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)
 * Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (1918)
 * Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1918–1992)
 * Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1969–1992)
 * Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003)