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Originally Posted by ok, ok,....I get it

Sounds like recent history......although I will say the '90's were a great time for me personally

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_wars

Bad example.

Yugoslavia was a federation of republics - not provinces. The republics involved all had a history of being independent nations in their own right and their politcal unity into one entity was relatively recent and looser than confederation. Think "Soviet Union", but smaller scale.