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The Indo-Greeks.

They broke off from the Greco-Bactrians around 180 BC, who had broken off of the Seleucids around 250 BC. They expanded a decent amount into northern India before declining around 100 BC. The last Indo-Greek state ceased to exist shortly around the birth of Christ.

>>2573868
What's so special about the Slovaks?

>>2573868
>literally just a tribal confederation with some tributary states
>empire

>>2575576
So was Rome. The only difference was infrastructure.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinet

>>2575591
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Böszörmény

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Prekmurje

>>2575591
Madmen.

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>>2573868
>mfw the Slavic Middle Ages

Yugoslavia

>>2575665
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7QkQbC4uYY

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>>2573868
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Regency_of_Carnaro
After WW1 the city of Fiume (today Rijeka) was "occupied" by rebellious veterans who wanted the city to become part of Italy, against what was established by the peace treaty (Fiume was assigned to Jugoslavia). It was the Italian army itself that, under international pressure, drove these veterans from the city.

>>2575591
Those fucking madmen

>>2575591
>saracen pirates raiding all the way up to the alpine pass

why didnt they teach this in school

Well, there was that time when an English adventurer was granted land by the Sultan of Brunei, then through conquest and skillful diplomacy went from being the Sultan's vassal to being king of his own south-east Asian kingdom, that lasted for a century. Shame barely anyone in the West remembers it, although Sarawak is still quite proud of the time it spent as the kingdom of the White Rajahs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brooke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sarawak

>>2573868
>That one time when one Pole and bunch of cossacks managed to create a functioning state in China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxa_(state)

>>2575591
>There was a skirmish between Muslim and Hungarian cavalry in May 942, ended with a Hungarian victory.
Nani the fuck

>>2575633
You've heard of Austria-Hungary...
Now prepare for...
Serbia-Hungary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian-Hungarian_Baranya-Baja_Republic

>>2577034
The pre-Christian Magyars raided all over Western Europe including Muslim Spian.

>>2577114
I know they raided up to France but I never knew they went as far south and clashed with muslims. Neat.

>>2576583
breddy cool

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>>2576583
>>2576803
there is something really cool about this

>>2577114
I love the river-pirate version of steppe raiders, the Novgorodian Ushkuiniks. They even got as far as the Ob River in Sibera in the 1300s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushkuiniks

>>2577553
It's not exactly "unknown" but really just Novgorod in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod_Republic

I for some reason really like the Tongan maritime empire. I'll grant that it was really more of a trade network and system of vassals and raiding targets than a true centralized "empire," but it's still pretty impressive that they were able to project that much influence that far with such a paucity of material resources in their home islands. Even in Polynesia/Oceania, the fertile highlands of Fiji, New Caledonia, etc. would seem more logical as the birthplace of a more outward-looking polity, but instead those places remained (more) backwards tribes, and it was Tonga (and to a lesser extent Samoa) that had the most organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%CA%BBi_Tonga_Empire

>>2573868
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couto_Misto

Micro-state between Portugal and Spain

>>2577108

Hungarian here. We had a Serbian prime minister one time, but we had to put the poor creature down because rabies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6me_Szt%C3%B3jay

>>2578528
Damn

>>2577586
>>2576583
In the same region the Sulu thalassocracy is pretty neat. First time I read about a thalassocracy outside of the Med sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Sulu

How about the South Indian Tamil State that existed for over a thousand years that had influence as far as Sumatra?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chola_dynasty

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>>2578659
M8 pretty much every relevant empire/kingdom in insular SEA was a thallasocracy

Pic related the srivijayan empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

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I myself consider Avars an oddity. Their history isn't often discussed, yet they have undeniable connection to history of Slavs, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Avars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar_Khaganate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar_Khanate

>>2579496
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar_Khanate
The more I search, the odder it gets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar

>>2579496
>Avarghanistan

>>2573868
What happened to the Mary Celeste?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

What caused The Devil's footprints?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Footprints

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>>2574421
Here, have a map.

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>>2581365
And aforementioned Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

>>2579496
I've always wondered how the Avars of Pannonia would've turned out if they survived as a political entity before the Magyars settled the Carpathian Basin? Or would the 2 groups just merge to create something like modern-day Hungary?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet

>>2581733

It is basically what happened, the last remnants of the Avars were assimilated into the Hungarian population. During the Magyar raids, it is fairly certain that there were a good number of Avar/half-Avar men among the raiders and they were probably happy to have payback for what Charlemagne did to their ancestors a hundred years ago.

>>2582229
>it is fairly certain that there were a good number of Avar/half-Avar men among the raiders and they were probably happy to have payback for what Charlemagne did to their ancestors a hundred years ago.
No wonder the Magyars knew when and where to raid so well. Their Avar predecessors knew all the good spots.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Strang#Coronation_and_troubled_reign_on_Beaver_Island
Mormon Kingdom of Beaver Island

>ywn be the Emperor of California
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Bottleneck

Freistaat Flaschenhals, literally "Free State Bottleneck", a state that existed for 5 years and was formed from towns that weren't part of the French nor American areas of occupation of the Rhine due to a cartographic error.

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The Jewish Autonomus Oblast, created by Stalin in the Russian Far East with the objective of deporting the Jews in the Soviet Union and creating a rival to Israel.

It's still a subdivision of Russia, and despite having a significant amount of Jewish decorations less than 1% of the population is Jewish.

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>>2582712
There was German Soviet Socialist Republic that was part of Soviet Russia for 20 yers.

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>>2582712
i like their flag

>>2576143
We actually learned about this in school here in Ireland, as part of our study of the interwar years. Most of that topic was interesting but trying to remember all the names and who stabbed who in the back in the political clusterfuck that was interwar France was a headache.

>>2582722
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans

The Volga Germans, among quite a few religious communities, were the result of the Tsars encouraging immigration to the Don area from mostly Germany in the late 18th and for some of the 19th century.

Stalin had most of them deported to Kazakhstan when WW2 started approaching the Don.

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How about the time a communist/syndicalist microstate was set up on the west coast of Ireland in 1919? They even printed their own currency but only lasted for 13 days.

>>2582803
forgot link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet
also meant to reply to >>2582722

more fun facts: the USSR also gave a small loan of a million dollars to the nascent Irish Republic in 1919 and they took the Tsar's crown jewels as collateral. They were lost and subsequently forgotten until rediscovered in some woman's attic in Dublin ~50 years later, and were unceremoniously secretly returned to the USSR while Ireland was trying to remain a neutral power in the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Romance