The answer: It went the way of the old Republic.

So Caesar must have sounded when he set aside the old republic.

San Marino is the world's oldest republic that still exists.

It is the capital of the world's oldest constitutional republic but has no direct representation in Congress.

"Progress, which died with the old republic, is coming back to America again," he mused aloud.

It is the world's oldest republic, and one of the world's smallest nations.

Those within the old Soviet republics survive in the new independent republics.

That makes San Marino the oldest republic in the world.

Under the old republic, the Proconsuls governed the more challenging provinces.

Thus, one of the oldest republics of Europe was turned into a monarchy, which it still is today.