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| ====== San Marino ====== | ====== San Marino ====== |
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| One of the oldest continuously existing republics in the world (founded, according to tradition, by local hermit Marino/Marinus in ca the 4th century AD), San Marino is also one of Europe's smallest countries. Its territory is landlocked and completely encircled by Italy, and lies not too far from the city of Rimini and Italy's Adriatic coast. San Marino has only slightly over 31 000 permanent inhabitants, making it the second least populous sovereign country in both Europe and the world, right after [[the Vatican]] (even [[Liechtenstein]] and [[Monaco]] have a few thousand people more than San Marino). | One of the oldest continuously existing republics in the world (founded, according to tradition, by local hermit Marino/Marinus in ca the 4th century AD), San Marino is also one of Europe's smallest countries. Its territory is landlocked and completely encircled by [[Italy]], and lies not too far from the city of Rimini and Italy's Adriatic coast. San Marino has only slightly over 31 000 permanent inhabitants, making it the second least populous sovereign country in both Europe and the world, right after [[the Vatican]] (even [[Liechtenstein]] and [[Monaco]] have a few thousand people more than San Marino). |
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| Similarly to [[Andorra]], the little Italian-speaking republic has preserved some unique political traditions, offices and terminology - chief among them being the fact that there are two co-ruling heads of state and government (the Captains Regent), who are elected //every six months//. Modern Sanmarinese law has a basis in the //Leges Statutae Republicae Sancti Marini//, a multi-volume collection of law books from the 16th century, written in Latin, compiling the existing law codes of the country. Though this sounds like AH, Abraham Lincoln actually personally visited the country during the 19th century and praised the long-standing local tradition of constitutional democracy. | Similarly to [[Andorra]], the little Italian-speaking republic has preserved some unique political traditions, offices and terminology - chief among them being the fact that there are two co-ruling heads of state and government (the Captains Regent), who are elected //every six months//. Modern Sanmarinese law has a basis in the //Leges Statutae Republicae Sancti Marini//, a multi-volume collection of law books from the 16th century, written in Latin, compiling the existing law codes of the country. Though this sounds like AH, Abraham Lincoln actually personally visited the country during the 19th century and praised the long-standing local tradition of constitutional democracy. |
