The Republic of Macedonia is in Asia.
 The two most powerful were the Republic of Venice and its rival the Republic of Genoa
 There are important exceptions to this, for example, republics in the Soviet Union were member states which had to meet three criteria to be named republics:be on the periphery of the Soviet Union so as to be able to take advantage of their theoretical right to secede;be economically strong enough to be self-sufficient upon secession; andbe named after at least one million people of the ethnic group which should make up the majority population of said republic

