republic

Definition of republic in English English dictionary: A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy
The United States is a republic; Great Britain is technically a monarchy.; One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast
The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.; {n} a commonwealth or state governed by representatives elected by the people; A variation of the Federal style; DEFINITION ALSO; Democracy, 2; A republic is a nation or country where the head of state is generally elected and is not a hereditary monarch; Cf; A form of government in which there is an elected president rather than a king; democracy: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them; A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth; A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote This power is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them and responsible to them; Historically, the form of government in which representative officials met to decide on policy issues These representatives were expected to serve the public interest but were not subject to the people's immediate control Today, the term republic is used interchangeably with democracy; a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president; A republic is a country where power is held by the people or the representatives that they elect. Republics have presidents who are elected, rather than kings or queens. the Baltic republics. the Republic of Ireland. see also banana republic. a country governed by elected representatives of the people, and led by a president, not a king or queen democracy, monarchy monarchy (république, from respublica, from res + publica ). Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives elected by its populace. The term was originally applied to a form of government in which the leader is periodically appointed under a constitution; it was contrasted with governments in which leadership is hereditary. A republic may also be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics. Republic of Albania Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria Republic of Angola Argentine Republic Republic of Armenia Republic of Austria Republic of Azerbaijan People's Republic of Bangladesh Republic of Benin Republic of Bolivia Republic of Botswana Federative Republic of Brazil Republic of Bulgaria Republic of Burundi Republic of Cameroon Republic of Chile People's Republic of China Republic of Colombia Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros Republic of Croatia Republic of Cuba Republic of Cyprus Republic of Ecuador United Arab Republic Arab Republic of Egypt Republic of Estonia Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Republic of Fiji Republic of Finland French Republic Gabonese Republic Republic of Georgia Federal Republic of Germany Republic of Ghana Hellenic Republic Republic of Guatemala Republic of Guinea Co operative Republic of Guyana Republic of Haiti Republic of Honduras Republic of Hungary Republic of Iceland Republic of India Republic of Indonesia Islamic Republic of Iran Republic of Iraq Italian Republic Republic of Kazakhstan Republic of Kenya Republic of Kiribati Kyrgyz Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Republic of Latvia Republic of Lebanon Republic of Liberia Republic of Lithuania Republic of Macedonia Republic of Madagascar Republic of Malawi Republic of Maldives Republic of Mali Islamic Republic of Mauritania Republic of Mauritius Republic of Moldova Republic of Mozambique Republic of Namibia Republic of Nauru Republic of Nicaragua Republic of Niger Federal Republic of Nigeria Islamic Republic of Pakistan Republic of Palau Republic of Panama Republic of Paraguay Republic of Peru Republic of the Philippines Republic of Poland Portuguese Republic Republic of Rwanda Republic of Senegal Republic of Seychelles Republic of Singapore Slovak Republic Republic of Slovenia Republic of Suriname Syrian Arab Republic Republic of Tajikistan United Republic of Tanzania Republic of Togo South African Republic Republic of Tunisia Republic of Turkey Republic of Uganda Oriental Republic of Uruguay Republic of Uzbekistan Republic of Vanuatu Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of Yemen Republic of Zambia Republic of Zimbabwe Batavian Republic Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic of Cape Verde Cisalpine Republic Congo Republic of the Republic of Costa Rica Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Czech Republic Dominican Republic Dutch Republic Republic of the United Netherlands Democratic Republic of East Timor Republic of El Salvador Fifth Republic Fourth Republic Republic of the Gambia German Democratic Republic Republic of Guinea Bissau Helvetic Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Republic of Korea Republic of the Marshall Islands New Republic The Rally for the Republic Roman Republic and Empire Saharan Arab Democratic Republic Republic of San Marino Second Republic Republic of Sierra Leone South Africa Republic of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Republic of the Sudan Third Republic Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Weimar Republic Central African Republic Congo Democratic Republic of the Republic of Zaire Republic of Djibouti Republic of Equatorial Guinea Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Common weal; n [L respublica; res and publica; public affairs ]; A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote Ã‚ This power is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them and responsible to them; a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"; a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them; A State, especially a democratic State, which has a non-hereditary head as (president) distinguished from a State like Britain which has a hereditary head (King or Queen) with limited powers, of course; (ree-PUB-lick) a government with an elected leader; {i} form of government in which citizens hold the power to elect their representatives; nation in which citizens elect their representatives; a political unit; a community or nation where the power is given to the people or their elected representatives; A form of government in which the head of state is usually elected by the citizens (Not to be confused with "democracy" because many republics, past and present, have heads of state who came into power by military force, or were elected by a small minority of the population ); The balanced constitution of Rome from c 510 to 47 b c e ; featured an aristocratic Senate, a panel of magistrates, and several popular assemblies (p 153); A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them and responsible to them
Republic of China: A state in East Asia, commonly known as Taiwan
Republic of Djibouti: the official name of the country in Eastern Africa known as Djibouti
Republic of Ireland: A republic in western Europe, covering most of the island of Ireland, with Dublin as its capital
Republic of Korea: A country in East Asia, the southernmost of the two states born of the partition of Korea following the Korean War; commonly known as South Korea
Republic of Macedonia: The constitutional name of the country situated north of Greece and west of Bulgaria, on the Balkan Peninsula
Republic of Turkey: Official name of the country of Turkey
Republic of the Congo: A country in central Africa, capital Brazzaville
republic day: The Republic Day of Turkey is the public holiday in Turkey and Northern Cyprus, commemorating the proclamation of the republic in 1923
republic day: The day on which the foundation of a republic is commemorated, in particular (in India) 26 January
republic of china: ROC
republic of china: Taiwan
republic of uzbekistan: (Coğrafya) Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O‘zbekiston Respublikasi; Cyrillic: Ўзбекистон Республикаси; Russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south
Republic of Albania: {i} Albania, republic in southeastern Europe on the cost of the Adriatic Sea of the Balkan Peninsula
Republic of Cameroon: {i} Cameroon, republic on the western coast of central Africa; former German protectorate that was divided into British Cameroons and French Cameroons
Republic of Cape Verde: {i} Cape Verde, island country off the coast of Senegal on the western coast of Africa
Republic of Chad: {i} Chad, country in central Africa
Republic of Congo: a country on the Equator in the western part of central Africa, to the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre). Population: 2,894,000 (2001). Capital: Brazzaville
Republic of Cuba: {i} Cuba, country in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba (south of Florida)
Republic of Cyprus: {i} Cyprus, island republic in the Mediterranean Sea
Republic of Djibouti: {i} Djibouti, Jibouti, republic in eastern Africa
Republic of Estonia: {i} Estonia, country in north east Europe
Republic of Finland: {i} Finland, country in northern Europe
Republic of Georgia: {i} Georgia, country bordering on the Black Sea in the southern Transcaucasia region in Asia (formerly part of the Soviet Union)
Republic of Ghana: {i} Ghana, country in western Africa
Republic of Ireland: a country that forms the larger part of the island of Ireland, and which is a member of the EU. Population: 3,841,000 (2001). Capital: Dublin. It was formerly ruled by the British, but it became an independent country in 1921 , when Ireland was divided into Northern Ireland (which remained as part of the UK) and the Irish Free State, which later became the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is mainly a Roman Catholic country. Its official languages are Irish Gaelic and English. Traditionally, Ireland's main industry was farming, but it has developed new industries. Ireland Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland: {i} Ireland, independent republic occupying the island of Ireland; Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom; Emerald Isle, island located to the west of the island of Great Britain
Republic of Korea: {i} official name of South Korea created in 1948
Republic of Lithuania: {i} country in northern Europe on the Baltic Sea (was part of the former Soviet Union)
Republic of Macedonia: {i} Macedonia, country in southeast Europe (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
Republic of Malta: {i} Malta, country consisting of the island of Malta and two adjacent islands
Republic of Moldova: Moldova, independent republic located in eastern Europe northeast of Romania (achieved independence from the USSR in 1991)
Republic of Niger: {i} Niger, country in western Africa
Republic of Palau: {i} Palau, nation located in the Caroline Islands of Oceania
Republic of Sierra Leone: {i} Sierra Leone, country in west Africa
Republic of Singapore: {i} Singapore, country in southeastern Asia
Republic of South Africa: formerly Union of South Africa Southernmost country on the African continent
Republic of The Gambia: {i} The Gambia, Gambia, country in west Africa
Republic of Vanuatu: {i} Vanuatu, country comprised of a group of about 80 islands located in the south Pacific Ocean
Republic of Zimbabwe: {i} Zimbabwe, country in the south of Africa
Republic of the Congo: {i} Congo, People's Republic of the Congo, country in west central Africa (between Angola and Gabon)
Republic of the Congo: known as Congo (Brazzaville) formerly Middle Congo Republic, west-central Africa
Republic of the Sudan: {i} Sudan, country in northeast Africa bordering the Red Sea
republic of moldova: a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991
republic of singapore: a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965
Altai Republic: a federal subject of Russia
Arab Republic of Egypt: The official name of the country of Egypt
Artsakh Republic: Another name for Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Central African Republic: Country in Central Africa. Official name: Central African Republic
Czech Republic: A country in Central Europe. Official short-form name: Czechia
Democratic People's Republic of Korea: A country in East Asia, the northernmost of the two states born of the partition of Korea following the Korean War, often called North Korea
Democratic Republic of the Congo: A large central African nation, formerly called Zaire
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka
Dominican Republic: A country in the Caribbean
Federal Republic of Germany: The official name of the state of Germany
German Democratic Republic: The official name of East Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic: A de facto independent, Armenian populated republic located in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus, between Armenia and Azerbaijan. De jure considered a breakaway region of Azerbaijan. Population: 138,800; language: Armenian; capital: Stepanakert
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: A country in the Middle East from 1967 until 1990; South Yemen
People's Republic of China: Official name of the country popularly known as China, as opposed to the Republic of China. Abbreviated PRC
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: The official name for modern day Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union (1917-1991)
Sakha Republic: A statoid in Siberia; formerly Yakutia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: the Yugoslav state that existed from 1943 until 1992 (abbreviation SFRY)
Soviet Socialist Republic: Any of the republics belonging to the former Soviet Union
Turkish Republic: a phrase which refers to republics of Turks or Turkic peoples
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: The Bolshevik state of Ukraine (1919–91), a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1922–91)
United Arab Republic: Former country in the Middle East composed of the modern states of Egypt and Syria
Weimar Republic: The democratic government of Germany between the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1919 and the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler in 1933
Yemen Arab Republic: A former country in the northern part of what is now Yemen
banana republic: A small country, especially one in Central America, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: A provisional designation (pending resolution of a naming dispute with Greece) used by many international organizations of the Republic of Macedonia, a country on the Balkan Peninsula, abbreviated FYROM
people's republic: A title often used by socialist or communist governments to describe their state
Kyrgyz Republic: (Coğrafya) Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz & Russian: Кыргызстан, Kyrgyzstan, or Киргизия, Kirgiziya), officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states (along with Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan). Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek
Argentine Republic: {i} Argentina, country in southern South America
Arizona Republic: large daily newspaper published in Phoenix (Arizona, USA)
Batavian Republic: Republic of the Netherlands after it was conquered by France in 1795. Its government, set up in 1798, was bound to France by alliance. In 1805 Napoleon renamed it the Batavian Commonwealth and placed executive power in the hands of a dictator. In 1806 it was replaced by the Kingdom of Holland under the rule of Louis Bonaparte; it was incorporated into the French empire in 1810
Central African Republic: {i} landlocked country in central Africa
Central African Republic: a country in central Africa. Population: 3,577,000 (2001). Capital: Bangui. French République Centrafricaine formerly Ubangi-Shari Republic, central Africa
Cisalpine Republic: Former republic, northern Italy. Created by Napoleon in 1797 from conquered territories, it was centred in the Po River valley and included the lands around Milan and Bologna. It was incorporated into the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy in 1805
Czech Republic: country in central Europe (formerly part of Czechoslovakia)
Czech Republic: A landlocked country of central Europe. It was a part of Czechoslovakia from 1918 until January 1993. Prague is the capital and largest city. Population: 10,333,000. a country in central Europe, between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. Population: 10,264,000 (1994). Capital: Prague. Until 1993 it was part of Czechoslovakia. formerly (1918-92, with Slovakia) Czechoslovakia Country, central Europe
Democratic Republic of Congo: a very large country in central Africa, which was called Zaïre between 1971 and 1997, and before that was called the Belgian Congo. Population: 53,625,000 (2001). Capital: Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste: {i} East Timor, Timor-Leste, republic on the eastern side of the Indonesian Timor island, area that was formerly a Portuguese colony and in May 2002 became an independent nation
Democratic Republic of the Congo: {i} Congo, country in central Africa on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, formerly Zaire
Democratic Republic of the Congo: known as Congo (Kinshasa) formerly (1971-97) Republic of Zaire (1960-71) Congo (1908-60) Belgian Congo (1885-1908) Congo Free State Country, central Africa
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: {i} Sri Lanka, island in the Indian Ocean south of India (formerly known as Ceylon)
Dominican Republic: {i} country in the West Indies (located on the island of Hispanola)
Dominican Republic: A country of the West Indies on the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola. Originally inhabited by Arawaks, it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and remained a Spanish colony until 1795, when it was ceded to France. Ruled by Haiti after 1821, the country became independent in 1844 but has had a turbulent history, including many years of dictatorship under Rafael Trujillo Molina (1930-1961). Santo Domingo is the capital and the largest city. Population: 7,760,000. a country in the Caribbean Sea on the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti. Population: 8,581,000 (2001). Capital: Santo Domingo. It was the place where Christopher Columbus first landed after crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Republic of the West Indies, occupying the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti
Dutch Republic: officially Republic of the United Netherlands Former state (1581-1795), about the size of the modern kingdom of The Netherlands. It consisted of the seven northern Netherlands provinces that formed the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and declared independence from Spain in 1581 (finally achieved in 1648). Political control shifted between the province of Holland and the princes of Orange. In the 17th century the Dutch Republic developed into a world colonial empire far out of proportion to its resources, emerging as a centre of international finance and a cultural capital of Europe. In the 18th century the republic's colonial empire was eclipsed by that of England. In 1795 the Dutch Republic collapsed under the impact of a Dutch democratic revolution and invading French armies
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: {i} Ethiopia, country in eastern Africa
Federal Republic of Germany: the official name of Germany
Federal Republic of Nigeria: {i} Nigeria, country in west Africa, most populated country in Africa
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: FRY the Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) the official name for Serbia and Montenegro, two states of the former country of Yugoslavia, in Eastern Europe. Population: 10,406,750 (1991). Capital: Belgrade. It has existed as a country since 1992
Fifth Republic: System of government in France from 1959 to the present. Under the constitution crafted by Charles de Gaulle with the help of Michel Debre, executive power was increased at the expense of the National Assembly. It came into being in 1959 after de Gaulle was elected president, with Debré as his prime minister. In 1962 de Gaulle pushed through a constitutional amendment that provided for direct popular election of the president, and in 1965 he became the first French president elected by popular vote since 1848. He was succeeded by Georges Pompidou (1969-74), Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1974-81), Francois Mitterrand (1981-95), and Jacques Chirac (from 1995)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Macedonia, country in southeast Europe (formerly part of Yugoslavia); ancient Balkan kingdom in southeastern Europe (spread across parts of Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia)
Fourth Republic: Government of the French Republic from 1946 to 1958. The postwar provisional president Charles de Gaulle resigned in 1946, expecting that public support would bring him back to power with a mandate to impose his constitutional ideas. Instead, the constituent assembly chose the Socialist Félix Gouin to replace him. The assembly submitted two draft constitutions to a popular vote in 1946, and the revision was narrowly approved. The structure of the Fourth Republic was remarkably like that of the Third Republic. The lower house of parliament, renamed the National Assembly, was the locus of power. Shaky coalition cabinets succeeded one another, and the lack of a clear-cut majority hampered coherent action. Political leaders included Georges Bidault, Pierre Mendès-France, René Pleven, and Robert Schuman
German Democratic Republic: the official name of the former east germany
German Democratic Republic: East Germany, former country in central Europe (created by the post-World War II division of Germany, united with West Germany in 1990), GDR
Hellenic Republic: {i} formal name of Greece
Helvetic Republic: Republic founded in March 1798, constituting the greater part of Switzerland, after it had been conquered by France in the French Revolutionary Wars. The government was patterned after that of the Directory in France. Delegates called on Napoleon to mediate in factional disputes, and in 1803 he substituted a new Swiss Confederation for the republic, forcing it into close association with France
Irish Republic: the Republic of Ireland
Islamic Republic of Iran: {i} Iran, country in southwest Asia (formerly Persia)
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: {i} Pakistan, Muslim country in southern Asia bordering on the Arabian Sea
Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Republic: {i} autonomic republic in northwest Uzbekistan
Karelian Autonomous Republic: {i} Karelia, autonomous republic in European Russia and Finland located between Gulf of Finland and the White Sea
Khmer Republic: a former name of Cambodia, from 1975 to 1979
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria: {i} Algeria, country in north Africa on the Mediterranean Sea (between Morocco and Tunisia)
People's Republic: A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party
People's Republic of China: {i} China, country in east Asia
Rally for the Republic: or Gaullists Former French political party. It was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 as the successor to the various Gaullist coalitions that dominated the political life of the Fifth Republic under Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou. The party had its antecedents in the group Rally of the French People, organized by de Gaulle in 1947. It evolved into the Union for the New Republic (1958-62) and then the Union of Democrats for the New Republic (1968-76) before assuming the name Rally for the Republic. In 2002 the party merged with the Liberal Democratic party and much of the Union for the French Democracy to form the Union for a Popular Movement
Roman Republic and Empire: Ancient state that once ruled the Western world. It centred on the city of Rome from the founding of the republic (509 BC) through the establishment of the empire (27 BC) to the final eclipse of the empire in the west (5th century AD). The republic's government consisted of two consuls, the Senate, and magistrates, originally all patricians, and two popular plebeian assemblies: the military centuriate assembly and the civilian tribal assembly. A written code, the Law of the Twelve Tables (451 BC), became the basis of Roman private law. By the end of the 3rd century BC, Roman territory included all of Italy; by the late republican period it encompassed most of western Europe, northern Africa, and the Near East, organized into provinces. After a period of civil war, Julius Caesar took power as dictator. Following his assassination (44 BC), conflict among the triumvirs Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian ultimately resulted in Octavian's victory (31) and his accession as Emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC-AD 14). The imperial government, a principate, combined aspects of the republic and a monarchy. In AD 395 the empire split into eastern and western halves, with the west under severe pressure from the barbarians. Rome was sacked in 410 by the Visigoths, and the western empire fell to German invaders in 476; the east continued as the Byzantine Empire until 1453. See table
Russian republic: {i} Federal republic founded in 1991 with the breakup of the former Soviet Union
Saharan Arab Democratic Republic: Disputed territory of Western Sahara occupied by Morocco. It was a Spanish colony from 1884 to 1976. After Spain left, native Saharawi guerrillas (see Polisario) based in Algeria declared a government-in-exile and fought Morocco and Mauritania for control. Mauritania made peace in 1979, whereupon Morocco claimed the whole territory. A referendum on whether the territory will remain part of Morocco or become independent has been repeatedly postponed. See also Hassan II
Second Republic: (1848-52) French republic established after the Revolutions of 1848 (following the original republic during the French Revolution). The liberal republicans' hopes of establishing an enduring democratic regime were soon frustrated. In 1848 Louis-Napoléon (later Napoleon III) was elected president, and a monarchist majority was elected to the legislative assembly, which passed conservative measures restricting voting rights and freedom of the press and giving the church increased control over education. Soon realizing that his power and future reelection were limited by the assembly's actions, Louis-Napoléon organized a coup d'état in 1851. A new constitution reduced the assembly's power, and a plebiscite to approve the change was accompanied by officially inspired petitions for the empire's restoration. In 1852 Louis-Napoléon was proclaimed emperor, and the Second Empire was born
The New Republic: Weekly journal of opinion, founded in 1914 by Willard Straight, with Herbert Croly as editor. Long one of the most influential liberal magazines in the U.S., it early reflected the progressive movement and sought reforms in U.S. government and society. Its popularity declined in the 1920s when liberalism was out of favour but revived in the 1930s. After initially opposing Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, it supported Roosevelt's New Deal. After becoming editor in 1946, former U.S. vice president Henry Wallace moved the magazine further left until he was forced to resign. In the early 1980s the magazine began to display an array of commentary reflecting the resurgence of conservatism in U.S. politics
The New Republic: weekly American magazine devoted to politics and the arts
Third Republic: French government (1870-1940). After the fall of the Second Empire and the suppression of the Paris Commune, the new Constitutional Laws of 1875 were adopted, establishing a regime based on parliamentary supremacy. Despite its series of short-lived governments, the Third Republic was marked by social stability (except for the Alfred Dreyfus affair), industrialization, and establishment of a professional civil service. It ended with the fall of France to the Germans in 1940. Presidents of the Third Republic included Adolphe Thiers (1871-73), Maurice de Mac-Mahon (1873-79), Jules Grévy (1879-87), Sadi Carnot (1887-94), Félix Faure (1895-99), Émile Loubet (1899-1906), Armand Fallières (1906-13), Raymond Poincaré (1913-20), Alexandre Millerand (1920-24), Gaston Doumergue (1924-31), and Albert Lebrun (1932-40). Other notable leaders included Léon Blum, Georges Boulanger, Aristide Briand, Georges Clemenceau, Édouard Daladier, Jules Ferry, Léon Gambetta, Édouard Herriot, Jean Jaurès, Pierre Laval, Philippe Pétain, and Paul Reynaud
United Republic of Tanzania: {i} Tanzania, country in eastern Africa
Weimar Republic: the first German republic, which was established in 1919 at a meeting in the city of Weimar. It faced difficult economic problems, including very high inflation, and ended when Hitler took control of the country in 1933. Government of Germany 1919-33, so named because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar in 1919. In its early years, the Weimar Republic was troubled by postwar economic and financial problems and political instability, but it had recovered considerably by the late 1920s. Its major political leaders included presidents Friedrich Ebert (1919-25) and Paul von Hindenburg (1925-34), as well as Gustav Stresemann, who was chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923-29). With the Great Depression, its political and economic collapse enabled Adolf Hitler to rise to power and become chancellor (1933), after which he suspended the Weimar constitution
Weimar Republic: government system in Germany between 1918 and 1933
baltic republic: European countries bordering the Baltic Sea
banana republic: a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
banana republic: country economically dependent on a single export (usually run by a military government or a dictator); country which grows bananas
banana republic: Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics. A small country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, such as bananas, and is typically governed by a dictator or the armed forces. an insulting word for a small poor country with weak government that depends on financial help from abroad
central african republic: a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960
central african republic franc: the basic unit of money in the Central African Republic
czech republic: a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from Slovakia in 1993
democratic republic of the congo: Congo: a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
dominican republic: a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola
federal republic of germany: a republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
federal republic of germany: a republic in north central Europe on the North Sea; established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat; reunified with East Germany in 1990
republics: plural of republic
roman republic: the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC; was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar
slovak republic: a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993
soviet socialist republic: one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
the People's Republic of Benin: a country in West Africa, between Togo and Nigeria. Population: 6,591,000 (2001). Capital: Porto Novo
weimar republic: the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919; "The Weimar Republic was overthrown in 1933 and replaced by the Third Reich

republic

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re·pub·lic

Turkish pronunciation

ripʌblık

Pronunciation

/rēˈpəblək/ /riːˈpʌblək/

Etymology

() From Latin rēs publica ("republic"), from rēs ("thing") + publica, the feminine of publicus ("public"). Literally meaning "the public thing".

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