At the same time, there are views that the presence of smaller regional states should be respected.

People from all groups have held regional, state or traditional offices.

America is pursuing this reform along with key regional states.

These separate regional states thrived for the next 400 years.

Forest Park's choir program has received regional, state and national recognition.

It will be the first step to a regional Islamic state.

In the two centuries following the conquest, a few of these domains became regional states that came into conflict with the central government.

Currently, many regional states have their own official state language.

So far there has been a conference of the regional states but we want to go further and have everyone sit around the table.

This helped to form unions between cities, leading to regional states.