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Not a "former country"
Although categorized under
Saar. I would also compare this to the American Civil War, fought between the USA ("the Union") and the CSA ("the Confederacy"); the defeat of the Confederacy did not result in a new state, but in the CSA being reabsorbed into the USA. -choster (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
