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Rump state

A rump state is the remnant of a once much larger state, left with a reduced territory in the wake of secession, annexation, occupation, decolonization, or a successful coup d'état or revolution on part of its former territory.[1] In the last case, a government stops short of going into exile because it controls part of its former territory.

During the , following the conquest of Lower Egypt by the Hyksos, there was a rump Egyptian kingdom in Upper Egypt centered on Thebes, which eventually reunified the country at the start of the New Kingdom.[2][3][4]

Second Intermediate Period

The lost most of its territory to the Parthian Empire.[5]

Seleucid Empire

After the collapse of the in Gaul, the Kingdom of Soissons survived as a rump state under Aegidius and Syagrius, until it was conquered by the Franks under Clovis I in 486.[6]

Western Roman Empire

The (to 1453 AD) can be considered a rump state of the Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD

Eastern Roman Empire

Government in exile

List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies

Puppet state

Successor state

Secession