Historical Dictionary of States / Lexikon der historischen Staatennamen: States and State-like Communities from Their Origins to the Present / Staaten und staatsähnliche Gemeinwesen von den Ursprüngen bis zur Gegenwart

The aim of the series is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over two decades, it offers a large library of mathematics including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Katrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019) Yakov G. Berkovich and Z. Janko, Groups of Prime Power Order, Volume 6 (2019) Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019) Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019) Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urba?ski, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021) Ioannis Diamantis, Boštjan Gabrovšek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021) Preface / Vorwort Systematic Survey / Systematischer Überblick Part A: Antiquity / Altertum Part B : Mediaeval & Modern Times / Mittelalter & Neue Zeit Abbrevations / Abkürzungen Transcriptions / Umschriften Introduction / Einleitung States / Staaten Appendix Bibliography / Schrifttum Alphabetical Index / Alphabetisches Register Worldwide survey of tribes, territories, kingdoms, nationalities, and other large organized communities, with chronologies and changes in rule, covering the last 5000 years. Organization is geographical and chronological.