This is a list of sovereign states in the 1790s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1790 and 31 December 1799. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes widely recognized sovereign states, and entities which were de facto sovereign but which were not widely recognized by other states.
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Name and capital city | Information on status and recognition of sovereignty | |||
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A | ||||
![]() Capital: Bernburg | State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() Capital: Köthen | State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() Capital: Vienna | State of the Holy Roman Empire. Crown land of the Habsburg monarchy. | |||
![]() Capital: Khunzakh | Widely recognized state. | |||
B | ||||
![]() Capital: Kalâa of Ait Abbas | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Prague | Crown land of the Bohemian Crown and of the Habsburg monarchy. Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() Capital: Boina Bay | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Bouillon
| Widely recognized state to October 26, 1795. Annexed by on October 26, 1795 | |||
![]() Capital: Brussels | State of the Holy Roman Empire | |||
C | ||||
China – Great Qing Capital: Peking | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Milan | Widely recognized state from June 29, 1797. Sister Republic of France. | |||
![]() Capital: Milan | Widely recognized state. Client state of France until June 29, 1797. Annexed by the Cisalpine Republic on June 29, 1797. | |||
Comancheria – Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ | ||||
![]() Capital: Cospaia | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Santiago de Rubiás | A microstate between Portugal and Spain. | |||
D | ||||
![]() Capital: Al Fasher | Widely recognized state. | |||
F | ||||
![]() ![]() ![]() Capital: Paris
| Widely recognized state. | |||
G | ||||
![]() Capital: Tbilisi | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: London | Widely recognized state. | |||
H | ||||
![]() Capital: Herat | Widely recognized state from 1793. | |||
![]() Capital: Vienna (seat of the Aulic Council), Frankfurt , Regensburg | Widely recognized state. | |||
I | ||||
![]() Capital: Dublin | Widely recognized state. | |||
K | ||||
![]() Capital: Hanseong | Widely recognized state. Member of the Imperial Chinese tributary system | |||
L | ||||
![]() Capital: Detmold | State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() Capital: Lucca | Widely recognized state until February 1799. De facto independent state from February 1799. | |||
M | ||||
Maimana – Khanate of Maimana Capital: Maymana | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Cetinje | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Brno | Crown land of the Bohemian Crown and of the Habsburg monarchy. Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() Capital: Fez | Widely recognized state. | |||
P | ||||
![]() Capital: Berlin | State of the Holy Roman Empire. | |||
![]() ![]() Capital: Tehran | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Rome | Widely recognized state. | |||
R | ||||
![]() Capital: Saint Petersburg | Widely recognized state. | |||
S | ||||
![]() ![]() Capital: San Marino | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Bangkok | Widely recognized state. | |||
![]() Capital: Madrid | Widely recognized state. | |||
U | ||||
![]() ![]() Capital: Philadelphia (temporary capital; from 1790) | Widely recognized state. | |||
V | ||||
![]() Capital: Venice | Widely recognized state. Annexed by Austria and the Cisalpine Republic on October 18, 1797. | |||
Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people in order to establish a law or change existing laws. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme legitimate authority over some polity. In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state. De jure sovereignty refers to the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty refers to the factual ability to do so. This can become an issue of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and reside within the same organization.
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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