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The 97-year-old heir to the Caliphate and Sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, Osman, died recently in Istanbul…he was the last heir to have been born during the Ottoman Empire (he was a 12 year old student in Vienna when the Empire was abolished) and he spent the rest of his long life in exile, living [...]
Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria, various African nations, and Guinea. They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
I’d pay attention to the Georgia / Russia if I were you guys. There’s more than you think at stake.
Wikipedia article here, and discussion on LiveJournal here and here about this shortlived British dependancy in what is now Greece – where some outer islands sought British protection after freeing themselves from the Ottoman Empire. When Greece became a nation, they joined up and the British left.