After the duke died without a male heir in 1447, fighting broke out to restore the so-called Ambrosian Republic.

The so-called "Republic" is now a purely ceremonial entity.

I have been in six Communist countries and in eight of the so-called Republics of the Soviet Union-in much travel over many years.

In 1925 he opined, "I feel the so-called Republic of China has ceased to exist.

The captured area was organized by the Poles as a new regime, the so-called Republic of Central Lithuania.

The liberal party reformed during 16 years of the so-called Liberal Republic, agricultural, social, political, labor, educational, economic and administrative sectors.

After peace returned it came, of course, under the rule of communist East Germany, the so-called German Democratic Republic.

Kurds backed by the United Kingdom declared independence in 1927 and established so-called Republic of Ararat.

The so-called Parliamentary Republic was not a true parliamentary system, in which the chief executive is elected by the legislature.

The town was occupied by the so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina on August 26, 1991.