Kingdom of Lithuania (1918)
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The Kingdom of Lithuania was an attempt to establish an independent constitutional Lithuanian monarchy in 1918. It was created towards the end of World War I, while Lithuania was still under the milit
Duke Wilhelm of Urach became Mindaugas II, named after the medieval Lithuanian king Mindaugas.
Puppet state
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A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders. Puppet st
Kingdom of Lithuania (1918)
…Empire, including Lithuania. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Germany conceived the geopolitical strategy of Mitteleuropa, a regional network of puppet states that would serve as a buffer zone. The Germans allowed the organisation of the Vilnius Conference, hoping that it would proclaim that the Lithuanian…
Wang Jingwei receiving German diplomats as head of state of the Reorganised Nationalist Government of the Republic of China in 1941
Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab with Transnistrian President Yevgeny Shevchuk in 2013. Both Abkhazia and Transnistria have been described as puppet states of Russia.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 2018