Contents:

Tolosa : soujourn of the Visigoths (AD 418-507) --

Alt Clud : Kingdom of the Rock (fifth to twelfth centuries) --

Burgundia : five, six, or seven kingdoms (c. 411-1795) --

Aragon : a Mediterranean empire (1137-1714) --

Litva : a grand duchy with kings (1253-1795) --

Byzantion : the star-lit golden bough (330-1453) --

Borussia : watery land of the Prusai (1230-1945) --

Sabaudia : The house that Humbert built (1033-1946) --

Galicia : kingdom of the naked and starving (1773-1918) --

Etruria : French snake in the Tuscan grass (1801-14) --

Rosenau : the loved and unwonted legacy (1826-1918) --

Tsernagora : Kingdom of the Black Mountain (1910-1918) --

Rusyn : the republic of one day (15 March 1939) --

Éire : The unconscionable tempo of the Crown's retreat (1916-2011) --

CCCP : the ultimate vanishing act (1924-1991) --

How states die.