In June, Slovenia and Croatia formally seceded from Yugoslavia, bringing the crisis to a head.
In 1961, Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic and formed the independent Syrian Arab Republic.
In east-central Europe Slovaks seceded from Czechs, and the former Yugoslavs have become five independent states.
Following their prophet, Zachary Comstock, the Columbians proudly seceded from the Union and took to the skies.
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If Hialeah seceded, he says, it would be hard-pressed to come up with the money to build its own county infrastructure.
Mujagic was fighting for the Army of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a region that had seceded from the central government.
It was quick to recognise oil-rich South Sudan when it seceded in July, having sent observers to monitor its referendum on independence.
Montenegro has always been a separate republic from Serbia, like all the other republics who seceded from the old Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
The breakaway state of Somaliland held its first multi-party general election since it seceded from anarchic Somalia, of which it is still legally a part, more than a decade ago.
The most cataclysmic of those shifts was in 2005, when the then prime minister, Ariel Sharon, seceded from the Likud to create Kadima, now the largest party in parliament (see chart).
Despite misgivings among several European leaders, Kohl received Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in Bonn Thursday, the first time a European leader has agreed to see him since Croatia seceded June 25.
Chrysta Freeland advances a similar argument in Plutocrats: that billionaires have effectively seceded from the countries in which they happen to reside to become a nation unto themselves, with its own culture and folkways.
Had that been held, and had Montenegro seceded from the federation, the EU feared that others in the region, like Albanian leaders in Kosovo and Macedonia, as well as Serbs in Bosnia, could have been encouraged to make similar moves towards independence - something the West is keen to avert.
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