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Countries No Longer With Us #2

These poor countries kicked the bucket! What name is written on their gravestones?
The date of their demise is given.
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The individual states of the first answer are still with us today, but not the entire nation.
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Last updated: April 13, 2021
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Description
Date
Answer
An Indigenous American participatory democracy made up of six states that some speculate to have been a model, at least partly, for the United States.
c. 1812
Iroquois Confederacy
A kingdom on the coast of the Baltic Sea that would grow to unify Germany
1871
Prussia
The very difficult to pronounce kingdom on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula
1527
Majapahit
An Italian Kingdom named after a city, south of Rome.
1816
Naples
The nations of Great Britain, now part of a larger collective.
1707
Scotland
Wales
England
The largest European empire since the Romans (up to that point), covering France, Germany, Italy, and more, led by Charlemagne himself.
c. 800
Franks
The first distinctively Greek civilization.
c. 1100 BC
Mycenae
The Ferdinand half of Ferdinand and Isabella
1479
Aragon
This kingdom, also known as "West Saxony," existed in southern Great Britain until it was unified with other kingdoms by Athelstan into England.
927
Wessex
Description
Date
Answer
The dynastic union between Portugal and the Spanish crown
1640
Iberian Union
A medieval feudal state found in modern-day Georgia, and eventually unified with the Kingdom of Iberia (not the peninsula) under one king until it was eventually conquered by the Mongols.
c.1240
Abkhazia
A kingdom in modern-day Romania that eventually fell to the Ottomans
1417
Wallachia
An expansive empire that covered modern-day southern Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other central asian countries at its peak. It eventually fragmented into smaller khanates which lasted until around 1850.
c. 1466
Gold Horde
This Iberian kingdom was formed from the division of the Old Asturian kingdom between Alfonso III's three sons. This one lasted the longest, before eventually joining the Kingdom of Castille.
1479
Leon
The first three great Muslim Caliphates
661
Rashidun Caliphate
750
Umayyad Caliphate
1517
Abbasid Caliphate
A Catholic crusader-state on the Southeast Baltic shore.
1525
Teutonic Order
A highly contested region, under the control of China, India, and Pakistan today. It was briefly independent and ruled by the Shah Mir Dynasty.
1561
Kashmir
The short-lived, only Mormon-led country in history, led by Brigham Young.
1858
Utah
Island nation off the coast of Africa that briefly was the capital of Oman.
1964
Zanzibar
The large part of Tanzania before the union with the above.
1964
Tanganyika
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Level 69
Apr 13, 2021
good quiz, always find extinct places interesting. should allow golden horde for gold horde though, that's the usual english usage
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Level 88
Apr 16, 2021
Shame that they are no longer among us