Approximately two million people joined Becoming_a_member their hands to form Cause_to_amalgamate a human chain spanning Expansion across the three Baltic states – Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania , which were considered at the time to be constituent republics of the Soviet Union .

The Soviet authorities responded Response to the event Social_event with intense rhetoric , but failed Earnings_and_losses to take Giving any constructive actions Response that could bridge Connect the widening Expansion gap between the Baltic republics and the rest of the Soviet Union .

Within seven months of the protest , Lithuania became Becoming the first of the Soviet republics to declare Expressing_publicly independence Change_of_leadership .

The Soviet Union incorporated its newly acquired Getting areas into its constituent Belarusian and Ukrainian republics , and immediately started Process_start a campaign of Sovietization .

They relieved Cure the three besieged cities , and invaded Attack the two Boer republics in late 1900 .

Both former republics were incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate into the Union of South Africa in 1910 , as part of the British Empire .

The Mahdia campaign of 1087 was an attack Attack on the North African town of Mahdia by armed ships from the northern Italian maritime republics of Genoa and Pisa .

Inspired by liberal and radical ideas , the Revolution profoundly altered Change the course of modern history , triggering Causation the global decline Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of absolute monarchies while replacing Change_of_leadership them with republics and liberal democracies .

globally , the revolution accelerated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the rise of republics and democracies .

Its constituent republics declared Expressing_publicly independence , despite unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries , fueling Supply the wars Hostile_encounter .

The Humanitarian Law Center estimates that in the conflicts Hostile_encounter in the former Yugoslav republics at least 130,000 people were killed Killing .

During its peak , the violence Violence was mostly concentrated Aiming in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya , Dagestan , Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria .

Following Lord Carnarvon 's successful introduction Creating of federation in Canada , it was thought that similar political effort , coupled Cause_to_amalgamate with military Military_operation campaigns Military_operation , might succeed with the African kingdoms , tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa .

The Russo-Georgian War Hostile_encounter was a war Hostile_encounter between Georgia , Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia .

The war Hostile_encounter took place Process_start in August 2008 following a period of worsening relations between Russia and Georgia , both formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union .

The kingdom was divided into four client republics , each subservient to Rome .

Soviet power was established Creating in the newly independent republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Georgia and Ukraine which led to Causation their unification into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) in 1922 .

It was observed Scrutiny over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics .

The new republics from the beginning abolished Removing the formal system of racial classification and hierarchy , casta system , the Inquisition , and noble titles .