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historical country

country, state or territory that once existed
Class type of: former administrative territorial entity, former or current state, historical administrative division Q3024240

Facts

10 properties
Subclass of
former administrative territorial entity, former or current state, historical administrative division, country, state[1][2][3][4][5]
Different from
proposed country[11]
Has list
list of former sovereign states[18]
Inappropriate property for this type
P582, P580[19][20]
Main Wikidata property
P17[9]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C205807[10]
Opposite of
present day country[6]
Properties for this type
P571, P1365, P576, P1366, P36, P3842[12][13][14][15][16][17]
Topic has template
Template:Infobox former country[7]
Used by
by former country[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en historical nation en former state en historical country en historical state en country or state that doesn't exist en country or state that no longer exists en Former Countries en defunct state en former country ar دولة تاريخية ar بلد سابق ar بلد تاريخي ar دولة سابقة cs zaniklý stát cs historický státní útvar cs bývalý stát da tidligere land de historischer Staat de ehemaliger Staat el ιστορική χώρα
🔖 Identifiers · 10
FactGrid item ID
Ans van Gerwen
GeoNames feature code
A.PCLH
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/122t1pqw
KBpedia ID
HistoricalCountry
NL CR AUT ID
ph1018442
Reddit topic ID
historical_country
SVKKL authority ID
0399211-zanikle-staty
Topic's main category
Category:Former countries
UMLS CUI
CL1928116
Wolfram Language entity type
HistoricalCountry

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🔗 Connections
Examples 2449
Soviet Union, Ottoman Empire, Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Nazi Germany, Yugoslavia +2441 more
← Category combines topics 29
Category:Former countries by continent, Category:Categories by former country, Category:Subdivisions of former countries, Category:Former countries by period, Category:Society of former countries, Category:Dissolutions of countries, Category:Former country articles requiring maintenance, Category:Former federations +21 more
Subtypes 20
Crusader states, khanate, Mahajanapada, taifa, princely state, maritime republics, sister republic, medieval commune +12 more
← Has part(s) of the class 8
Three Kingdoms, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, Sixteen Kingdoms, Kingdom of Burgundy, Boer Republics, Samhan, Hill States of India, Three Dynasties
← Category contains 2
Category:Rus' principalities, Category:Former countries in East Asia
← Country of origin 2
Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek, Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij
← Is a list of 2
list of former sovereign states, former countries in Europe after 1815
FactGrid item ID 1
Ans van Gerwen
Has list 1
list of former sovereign states
Subclass of 1
country
Topic has template 1
Template:Infobox former country
Topic's main category 1
Category:Former countries
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Former countries
← Proposed entity type 1
Balkan Federation
← Template has topic 1
Template:Infobox former country
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Infovarius · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: former or current state, probably even at any time"
  2. 5w ago · Isaac Sanolnacov · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → former administrative territorial entity, former or current state, historical administrative division +2
    Wikipedia languages → ['ast', 'en', 'nl', 'pt', 'ro', 'simple', 'zh']
    Sitelink count → 7
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: state"
  3. 13w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → by former country
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Subclass of: country"
  4. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0399211-zanikle-staty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0399211-zanikle-staty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Vicarage · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → present day country
    NCI Thesaurus ID → C205807
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Opposite of: present day country"
  6. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Former countries
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox former country
    Inappropriate property for this type → P582, P580
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ UMLS CUI: CL1928116"
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