Outlying land

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The term sub-country is used in different political meanings, so that a uniform definition is impossible. It is most appropriate to designate that part of a state association as a sub- state that plays a politically subordinate role, so that it has no part in the essential content of state life concentrated in the main state.

Areas that are geographically separated from the main body of a state are often referred to as sub-lands. For example, the islands of Spitzbergen and Bouvetinsel are side countries of Norway ; the Electoral Palatinate was a side country of the Duchy of Bavaria until the house contract of Pavia in 1329.

During the time of National Socialism , the neighboring country was a euphemism for areas that were dependent on Germany and that were incorporated into the German Reich under constitutional law , but not on an equal footing, such as the Generalgouvernement . It was therefore to be viewed as an indirect realm.

Areas that do not belong to a larger state under constitutional law, but are linked by a common ruler in a personal union are also often named as secondary countries . In the Habsburg Monarchy, for example, Croatia was a sub-country of Hungary, while Silesia, or later Austrian Silesia, was a sub-country of Bohemia . In terms of their historical development, the present-day regions of Upper and Lower Lusatia were neighboring countries to the Kingdom of Bohemia for centuries : Upper Lusatia , initially Gau Milsca, later called Land Budissin , from 1076 (with interruptions in the years 1253–1319 and 1469–1490) until 1635 ; the Lower Lausitz , however, from 1367 to 1635.

Furthermore, a colony can also occur in the special form of a neighboring country.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Jellinek : The Doctrine of the Relationships between States , Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1882, p. 222 .
  2. ↑ Volker Rödel: Kurpfalz: Verwaltung (Middle Ages) in Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , April 15, 2016, accessed September 12, 2016.
  3. ^ Nebenland des Reiches , in: euphemismen.de, accessed September 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Rudolf Kirchschläger , Kolonien , in: Strupp / Schlochauer, Dictionary des Völkerrechts , Vol. II, 2nd ed. 1961, pp. 256–259, here p. 257 .