However, extreme Cambodian nationalists regarded ethnic Vietnamese as agents or instruments of a Vietnamese intention to take over Cambodia.

In the 19th century and first half of the twentieth century, Dutch nationalists regarded Van Speijk as a hero.

Catholics see John of Nepomuk as a martyr to the cause of defending the Seal of the Confessional, romantic nationalists regard him as a Czech martyr to imperial interference, and most historians present him as a victim of a late version of the inveterate investiture controversy between secular rulers and the Catholic hierarchy.

The bonfires are particularly popular in Galicia and many Catalan-speaking areas like Catalonia and the Valencian Community, and for this reason some Catalan nationalists regard 24 June as the Catalan nation day.

Russian nationalists from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn to Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, who grew up in Almaty, regard the border between the two countries as both fake and temporary, and usually refer to this region as "southern Siberia."

Many Indian nationalists regard him as one of the earliest people who envisaged the united India spanning the entire subcontinent.

The article offended some prominent Russian writers, and to this day nationalists regard Yakovlev as their most powerful enemy.

They had no need to dress up, for we knew perfectly well who they were, and we are not blind; we know that the nationalists regarded the temporary failure of the ratification process as presenting them with an historic opportunity for a nationalist renaissance.

There was a heavy police presence in Belgrade last night as thousands of supporters of the Serbian Radical Party gathered to protest against the handing over of Mladic, who extreme nationalists regard as a war hero in the fight for a Greater Serbia.

Turkish nationalists still regard it as historically part of Turkey.