# Principality of Trinidad

> short-lived unrecognized state declared in 1893 when the American James Harden-Hickey claimed the uninhabited Trindade Island in the South Atlantic

**Wikidata**: [Q4224859](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4224859)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Trinidad)  
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