Free state
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Free state can refer to:
- Free state (government), a type of loosely defined government. Historical examples include:
- Congo Free State
- Free State of Fiume
- Irish Free State
- Articles about German Free States after World War I:
- Free State of Anhalt
- Free State of Bavaria (extant)
- Free State Bottleneck
- Free State of Brunswick
- People's State of Hesse
- Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Free State of Prussia
- Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Free State of Saxony (extant)
- Free State of Thuringia (extant)
- Free People's State of Württemberg
Other uses include:
- Free state (United States), a state that abolished slavery prior to the American Civil War
- In this context, a nickname for the state of Maryland
- Free-Stater, a settler in Kansas Territory that opposed the extension of slavery to Kansas
- In this context, a nickname for Kansas
- The Free State Brewery[1], a brewery in Lawrence Kansas.
- In this context, a nickname for Kansas
- The Free State is a province of the Republic of South Africa.
- Orange Free State is the article about the history of that state.
- Free State Project, in which libertarians concentrate into a single state, such as: