See micronation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Oceanus […] This is the world's largest micronation, taking up all the seas of the world beyond national 3-mi. limits. […] Income, as with Minerva, would come from international ship registration. This cannot begin, however, until all of the nations of the world agree to give Ed Welles sovereignty over the seas.",
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"text": "Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn't either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais, a self-proclaimed micronation in eastern France. He's since become fascinated with \"countries\" unrecognized by world governments and organizations. […] Some micronations are easily accessible while others are difficult to get to. In Copenhagen, tourists can enter Christiania on foot, while visitors to the Principality of Sealand, a WWII island fortress six miles off the eastern shores of Britain, have to shell out over $2,000 for transport and a visa.",
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"text": "After exploring several classificatory accounts that identify commonalities and distinctions among and between different types of micronation, we outline our definition. We find that micronations are self-declared nations that perform and mimic acts of sovereignty, and adopt many of the protocols of nations, but lack a foundation in domestic and international law for their existence and are not recognised as states in domestic or international forums.",
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"text": "Oceanus […] This is the world's largest micronation, taking up all the seas of the world beyond national 3-mi. limits. […] Income, as with Minerva, would come from international ship registration. This cannot begin, however, until all of the nations of the world agree to give Ed Welles sovereignty over the seas.",
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"text": "The list of micro-nations is long and colorful. The spirit of new nation-building that resonates from King Robert [Ben Madison]'s descriptions of these countries, is seductive.",
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"text": "Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn't either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais, a self-proclaimed micronation in eastern France. He's since become fascinated with \"countries\" unrecognized by world governments and organizations. […] Some micronations are easily accessible while others are difficult to get to. In Copenhagen, tourists can enter Christiania on foot, while visitors to the Principality of Sealand, a WWII island fortress six miles off the eastern shores of Britain, have to shell out over $2,000 for transport and a visa.",
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"text": "After exploring several classificatory accounts that identify commonalities and distinctions among and between different types of micronation, we outline our definition. We find that micronations are self-declared nations that perform and mimic acts of sovereignty, and adopt many of the protocols of nations, but lack a foundation in domestic and international law for their existence and are not recognised as states in domestic or international forums.",
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"text": "The absence of any action by the United Nations on the crisis in Nigeria is quote puzzling, […] Also, since Nigeria is the cornerstone of the economy of West Africa, many countries around its perimeter will suffer, including many of the \"micro-nations\" of the U.N. which were the biggest supporters of the actions in The Congo and Rhodesia.",
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"ref": "2021 April 2, Chico Harlan, Stefano Pitrelli, “San Marino, the micronation within Italy, stokes envy with speedy Russian-supplied vaccine campaign”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2023:",
"text": "But in easing its own vaccine crisis, this hilltop micronation—which is not a member of the European Union—has become a foil for a much larger crisis playing out beyond its borders.",
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"text": "We were defenders of federalism, but we need not be fanatics, since obviously its time has not yet come and since we are faced with micronationalisms that need be tamed, micronations that will have to be organized. Thus it is necessary for us to start with these micronationalisms and micronations, which are the realities of this strange twentieth-century African universe.",
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"text": "Margery Perham once remarked that white Rhodesia was a micronation equivalent to a medium-sized British town. How has this micronation, about 80 per cent of whom live in the urban areas, been able to develop and retain control over the African population for so long?",
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},
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"source": "Thesaurus:micronation",
"tags": [
"informal",
"rare"
],
"word": "mrnation"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:micronation",
"tags": [
"endearing",
"uncommon"
],
"word": "nationette"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:micronation",
"word": "new country project"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:micronation",
"word": "new nation project"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:micronation",
"word": "project nation"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"lang_code": "af",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronasie"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "ʔumma mijhariyya",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "أُمّة مِجْهَرِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"lang_code": "an",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronación"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"lang_code": "hy",
"roman": "mikropetutʻyun",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "միկրոպետություն"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"lang_code": "as",
"roman": "onurastro",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "অণুৰাষ্ট্ৰ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikrodövlət"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"lang_code": "eu",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronazio"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"lang_code": "bn",
"roman": "onuraśṭro",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "অণুরাষ্ট্র"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronació"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "wēixíngguójiā",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "微型國家 /微型国家"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mikronaród"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronation"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronatie"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronacio"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"lang_code": "et",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikroriik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikrovaltio"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronation"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronación"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "miḳroeri",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "მიკროერი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "miḳrokveq̇ana",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "მიკროქვეყანა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "miḳrosaxelmc̣ipo",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "მიკროსახელმწიფო"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mikronation"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "mikroéthnos",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "μικροέθνος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "מדינה לכאורה"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "sūkṣmarāṣṭra",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "सूक्ष्मराष्ट्र"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronációk"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronemzetek"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"rare"
],
"word": "örþjóð"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "smáþjóð"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronasion"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "bangsa mikro"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "negara mikro"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"lang_code": "ia",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "micronation"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "micreanáisiún"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronazione"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "mikuronēshon",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "ミクロネーション"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"lang_code": "jv",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "alpawangsa"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "maikeuroneisyeon",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "마이크로네이션"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"lang_code": "ckb",
"roman": "maykroneyişn",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "مایکرۆنەیشن"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"lang_code": "lo",
"roman": "mai khrō nē san",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "ໄມໂຄຣເນຊັນ"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mikronācija"
},
{
"code": "lmo",
"lang": "Lombard",
"lang_code": "lmo",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronazzion"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "mikrodržava",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "микродржава"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikrobangsa"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "bangsa mikro"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"lang_code": "mr",
"roman": "sūkṣmarāṣṭra",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "सूक्ष्मराष्ट्र"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mikronasjon"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronacion"
},
{
"code": "fa-ira",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"lang_code": "fa-ira",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "ریزملت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mikronacja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronação"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronațiune"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "virtuálʹnoje gosudárstvo",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "виртуа́льное госуда́рство"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "микронација"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"feminine"
],
"word": "mikronacija"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"lang_code": "sk",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mikronárod"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mikronarod"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "micronación"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mikronation"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronasyon"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikro ulus"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"lang_code": "ta",
"roman": "nuṇ nāṭu",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "நுண் நாடு"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"lang_code": "tt",
"roman": "mikrodäwlät",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "микродәүләт"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "bprà-têet-jam-lɔɔng",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "ประเทศจำลอง"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "mikronasyon"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "mikronácija",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "мікрона́ція"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "virtuálʹna deržáva",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "віртуа́льна держа́ва"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"lang_code": "ur",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "خرد اقوام"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetan",
"lang_code": "vec",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "micronasion"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "vi quốc gia"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "microgenedl"
},
{
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"lang_code": "sah",
"roman": "mikro il",
"sense": "non-autonomous entity which claims to be a sovereign state but lacks any legal recognition",
"word": "микро ил"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "very small nation (historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common economic life, ethnicity, language, religion, and/or territory) not amounting to a sovereign state",
"word": "mikrovaltio"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Office of the Geographer",
"Philip J. Hilts",
"Principality of Sealand",
"The Washington Post",
"United States Department of State"
],
"word": "micronation"
}
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