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If Amendment 36 passed it would essentially create a ministate within a state.

Even today, many of the ministate's coats of arms in the town still recall this time.

Their goal is to create a separate Croat ministate, perhaps to merge later with Croatia itself.

Managing the opera's 1,500 employees is like governing a ministate perpetually on the verge of insurrection.

Taliban militants and foreign Qaeda allies have created a virtual Taliban ministate in that area.

A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, but usually both.

An extremist ministate in northern Mali is the unexpected result from the collapse of the earlier coup d'etat by the angry army officers.

Small and vulnerable, Grenada is a typical Caribbean ministate that depends on tourism for budget revenues and jobs.

In the 1970's, Palestinian guerrillas set up a ministate in southern Lebanon, near Israel's northern border.

The Kurds continue to put broader national interests behind their own goal of an autonomous ministate that would include the oil fields of Kirkuk.

The United States, evidently alarmed that a ministate might be vulnerable to the pressures or blandishments of drug cartels, has echoed those worries.

Several times neighbouring princely rulers, accompanied by their knights and mercenaries tried to subdue the independent ministate to feudalism, however, without success.

They say the Pakistanis have allowed the Taliban to create a virtual ministate and staging base for suicide attacks just across Afghanistan's eastern border.

The ministate, which occupied one-third of Croatia, lasted from 1991 to 1995, when the Croatian military, backed by American advisers, restored Zagreb's control.

They once lived in the town of Koruk in the Iranian tribal ministate of Bahu Kalat.

The Iraqi Kurds have thousands of men under arms and have built the semblance of a ministate, paving roads, building schools and reconstructing villages.

That is especially so on the Turkish side, where people do not want to find themselves stranded in an isolated and impoverished ministate just beyond the European Union frontier.

They will have a chance to build a decent ministate of their own in Gaza that will prove to Israelis they can live in peace next to Israel.

He led the first invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to uproot the Palestinian ministate that had taken hold there to carry out raids on Israel, a goal the invasion achieved.

A few months later, Mr. Izetbegovic agreed to the creation of what amounted to a Muslim ministate on part of Bosnia, only for his own Parliament to reject this idea.

With this and a few other parcels of land around predominantly Croatian population centers in northern Bosnia, they have assembled the territory they need for their ministate, which they have named Herzeg-Bosna.

Human Rights Watch, in a new report, accuses one of Afghanistan's most powerful regional governors of creating a "virtual ministate" in western Afghanistan where "political intimidation, arrests, beatings and torture" are widespread.

Instead, the Croats have followed the Serbian lead, fighting street battles with the Muslim-led forces of the Sarajevo Government in what appears to be a bid to consolidate the frontiers of a Croatian ministate.

Meanwhile, Herzeg-Bosna, the Croatian ministate, as well as the ministate proclaimed by the Bosnian Serb leaders in April, are operating like provinces of Croatia and Serbia.

When he raced southward in his armored Cadillac on Thursday for a clandestine meeting at Khinjan in the Hindu Kush mountains, the 43-year-old general emerged as leader of a kind of ministate in northern Afghanistan.