• GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    To be fair, that country has a population of 30K. For comparison, my town’s population is 200K. But still an interesting case nonetheless.

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      8 hours ago

      I think at the time they didn’t believe a republic could really work for a large expansive country and would just use it for smaller city states. Hence why Florence and Venice and San Marino were Republics but then Naples and Sicily were monarchies.