The 97-year-old heir to the Caliphate and Sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, Osman, died recently in Istanbul…he was the last heir to have been born during the Ottoman Empire (he was a 12 year old student in Vienna when the Empire was abolished) and he spent the rest of his long life in exile, living for sixty years  in a rent controlled apartment in ( Read more... )

Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria,  various African nations, and Guinea.  They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.

Wikipedia article here, and discussion on LiveJournal here and here about this shortlived British dependancy in what is now Greece - where some outer islands sought British protection after freeing themselves from the Ottoman Empire. When Greece became a nation, they joined up and the British left.