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This is a list of republics. For antiquity (or later in the case of societies that did not refer to modern terminology to qualify their form of government) the assessment of whether a state organisation is a republic is based on retrospective analysis by historians and political theorists. For more recent systems of government, worldwide organisations with a broad political acceptance (such as the United Nations), can provide information on whether or not a sovereign state is referred to as a republic.
State | Dates of existence (BCE) | Notes |
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Mahajanapadas[1] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 345 | Sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation period. |
Licchavikas[2][3] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 468 | The leading confederate tribe of the Vajjika League Mahajanapada; the city of Vesālī was the republic's capital.[2][3] |
Vaidehas[2][4] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 468 | One of the confederate tribes of the Vajjika League Mahajanapada; the city of Mithilā was the republic's capital.[2][4] |
Nāyas[2][5] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 468 | One of the confederate tribes of the Vajjika League Mahajanapada; the city of Kuṇḍagāma was the republic's capital.[2][5] |
Mallakas[2][6] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 468 | One of the confederate tribes of the Vajjika League Mahajanapada; the Mallakas were divided into two republics with the cities of Kusinārā and Pāvā as their respective capitals.[2][6] |
Sakyas[7] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th century | |
Koliyas[8] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th century | |
Moriyas[9] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th century | |
Bulayas[10] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th century | |
Bhaggas[11] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th/4th century | |
Kālāmas[12] | c. 7th/6th century – c. 5th/4th century | |
Roman Republic | 509–27 | |
Classical Athens | 508–322 | Various Greek city-states under Classical Athenian influence; these loyalties and governments changed frequently (see synoecisms), and in some instances were even under the influence of Sparta without succumbing to oligarchy. |
Ancient Carthage | 480–146 | In 308 BC, an attempted coup to restore the monarch to full power failed, which led to Carthage retaining its republican government.[13] |
A maritime republic was a thalassocratic city-state during the Middle Ages in which the merchant class had considerable power.
A free imperial city was a self-ruling city member of the Holy Roman Empire that was represented in the Imperial Diet.
A sister republic was a client state of France established by French armies or by local revolutionaries and assisted by the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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In modern usage, a republican system of government is loosely applied to any state which claims this designation.[20] For example, the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo is considered a republic, as is the Republic of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Confederal republics are associations of sovereign states, usually having power over critical common issues such as defense and foreign policy:
A crowned republic, is a form of constitutional monarchy where the monarch's role is commonly seen as largely ceremonial and where all the royal prerogatives are prescribed by custom and law in such a way that the monarch has limited discretion over governmental and constitutional issues.
Democratic republics are usually socialist states, although not all of them are necessarily socialist.
Federal republics are federal states in which the administrative divisions (states or provinces) theoretically retain a degree of autonomy which is constitutionally protected, and cannot be revoked unilaterally by the national government. Federal republics are not unitary states.
Republics governed in accordance with Islamic law:
People's republics are said to be governed by the people. The name is most often (but not always) used by communist states.
These are republics that use the word "socialist" in their official name.
Unitary republics are unitary states which are governed constitutionally as one single unit, with a single constitutionally created legislature. Unitary states are not federations or confederations.
Through the Constitution of 1864, constitutional monarchy, or, as it had been described, "crowned democracy", or "democratic monarchy", was consolidated as the form of government in Greece.
Article 21: The Form of Government of Greece is that of a Crowned Republic. All powers stem from the Nation and are exercised in accordance with the Constitution.