As noted above, there was no country called "Germany" in Mozart's day; rather, there were hundreds of independent or quasi-independent German-speaking states.

It however continued to exist as a tributary quasi-independent state until Tipu Sultan annexed the estate in 1786.

Meanwhile, in 1847 Brigham Young led a group of settlers into the Great Salt Lake area in an attempt to set up a quasi-independent state.

This enabled the homelands to establish themselves as self-governing, quasi-independent states.

Thus Sicily survived as a quasi-independent state for sixteen months, with the Bourbon army taking back full control of the island on 15 May 1849 by force.

The reserves later became known as bantustans of which the failed objective was to make self-governing, quasi-independent ethnically homogeneous states.

Isma'il and Tewfik Pasha governed Egypt as a quasi-independent state under Ottoman suzerainty until the British occupation of 1882.

At the same time, Mr. Boban and the military force he leads, the Croatian Defense Council, declared a quasi-independent state on the one-third of this republic not already seized by Serbs.

Their zone is currently protected by the U.S. no-flight regime, and, as a result, the Kurds have established their own quasi-independent state in northern Iraq, with their own oil revenues.

The complexity of social forces - from the quasi-independent states of the western borderlands, to the anti-colonial ferment of Central Asia - belied the simplicity of the slogans.