* Altenberg, a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Originating in the medieval Northern March, the Margraviate of Brandenburg grew to become the core of the Kingdom of Prussia, which would later become the Free State of Prussia.

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

The population in the northern Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West Province has declined by up to 1 %.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal ( the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR ) and the Orange Free State ( OFS ), against the threat of annexation by the British Crown.

The " Orange " in Orange Free State ( 1854 – 1902 ) was named after the Protestant House of Orange in the Netherlands.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

The BCVO ( Movement for Christian-National Education ) is a federation of 47 Calvinist private schools, primarily in the Free State and the Transvaal, committed to educating Boer children from grade 0 through to 12.

The French consolidated their legal claim to the area through an 1887 convention with Congo Free State, which granted France possession of the right bank of the Oubangui River.

Roger Casement, writing to a consular colleague in Lisbon on August 3, 1903 from Lake Mantumba in the Congo Free State, said: " The people round here are all cannibals.

During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.

The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State ( Icelandic: Þjóðveldið ) was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king in 1262.

In 1935 the Irish Free State was the first to introduce its own citizenship.

During its history the area has also been known as Congo, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Zaire.

The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State became the site of one of the most infamous international scandals of the turn of the twentieth century.

The European and U. S. press agencies exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public in 1900.

On 15 November 1908 King Léopold II of Belgium formally relinquished personal control of the Congo Free State.

* Congo Free State ( 1885 – 1908 )

The Free State of Saxony ( ; ) is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

The Empire also contained several regional powers, such as the Duchy of Bavaria, the Electorate of Saxony, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Electorate of the Palatinate, Landgraviate of Hesse, the Archbishopric of Trier and the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg ( containing from 500, 000 to one million inhabitants ).

Dresden (; ) is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

Between 1918 and 1934 Dresden was capital of the first Free State of Saxony.

Meissen ( in German orthography: Meißen ; ; ; ; ) is a town of approximately 30, 000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.

In 1946, the Free State of Oldenburg was dissolved, and the area became the ' Administrative District ' of Oldenburg ( Verwaltungsbezirk Oldenburg ) as part of the newly formed federal German state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen ).

At the foundation of Lower Saxony in 1946 by the merger of the three former Free States of Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and the former Prussian province of Hanover the former two states became Verwaltungsbezirke ( roughly administrative regions of extended competence ) within Lower Saxony besides the less autonomous Prussian-style Regierungsbezirke comprising the former Province of Hanover and the tiny Schaumburg-Lippe.

The rhyolitic tuff portal of the " church house " at Colditz Castle, Free State of Saxony | Saxony, designed by Andreas Walther II ( 1584 ), is a clear example of the exuberance of " Antwerp Mannerism "

After the war, Braunschweig ceased to be a capital when the Free State of Brunswick was dissolved by the Allied occupying authorities ( most of its lands were incorporated in the newly formed state of Lower Saxony ).

Zwickau () in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region.

This includes the formidable climbing area of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the Free State of Saxony.

Colditz () is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, near Leipzig, located on the banks of the river Mulde.

The tiny Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe existed until 1946, when it became an administrative area within Lower Saxony.

Chemnitz (;, ; known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

Annaberg is a former district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

The Vogtlandkreis is a Landkreis ( rural district ) in the southwest of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic.

Chemnitz is one of the three Direktionsbezirke of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, located in the south-west of the state.

Dresden is one of the three Direktionsbezirke of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, located in the east of the state.

Leipzig is one of the three Direktionsbezirke of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, located in the north-west of the state.

Aue-Schwarzenberg is a former district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.