In the world exist many localities or cities with the same name, also inside the same nation, and exist also 2 States with the same name (Georgi in United States of America and Georgia whose borders are with Russia and Turkey). I don’t see the reason why couldn’t be the same thing in regards to Macedonia’s State in ex Yugoslavia.
By proclamation of independence at start of 1990, Macedonia wanted adopt this name for new State, Greece instead opposed fiercely and strongly supporting that inside its borders already existed a region with that name and hence the new Macedonia State needed adopting a new name. It’s only a name! ….. but 2 cultural different identities. On last NATO Summit, Macedonia (FYROM) has not been invited for fear of incidents, diplomatic also, with Greece. Does exist a State by 17 years, but it has not a definitive international recognition.

Europe:
Northern Cyprus
Crimea
Herzegovina

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Italy is the lonely State in the world that has inside own territory 2 States (San Marino and Vatican City) internationally recognized.
But not all know that in effect exists a Principality included in new Italian State in the middle of 1800 and doesn’t exist papers and/or documents that proving how above written.
In effect Giorgio I, Seborga’s prince, has exposed the problem to experts of international-law, whose sustain that Seborga is yet a Principality de-facto. However Seborga has own car number plates, own passport ……… but all these have not legal value in Italy and in the rest of the world. Seborga is known also such as a micronation, that is micro-state.

Micronation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation

Duma has expressed the intention to recognize internationally 3 new territories that de-fact are States.
To recognize at international level, means opening diplomatic seats, accept passports and acknowledge and national entity.

The States are:

- Transnistria or Pridnestrovie (inside, but separated from Moldova)

- Abkhazia (inside, but separated from Georgia)

- South Ossetia(inside, but separated from Georgia)

Tibet, a sovereign State occupied with force by China around 1950, is asking with big voice the end of massacres against tibetan people.

Dalai Lama is also asking to O.N.U., and hence also to the rest of the world, that the Chinese repression ends ……… but not with tibetan blood. Follows some link:

http://www.tibet.com/
http://www.tibet.org/
http://www.freetibet.org/
http://www.savetibet.org/

On February 2008 Kosovo has become independent.
How serbs can argue and rebel after all they have made in 10 years of Milosevich’s era? From 1990 there have been rapes, murders, tortures by serb’s army against kosovars.
In 10 years he has made 4 wars against Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo. The Big Serbia has become the Small Serbia. It has lost the control of Montenegro (it existed a State formed by the union Serbia-Montenegro until 2006) that wanted to break-away itself and becoming independent and of Kosovo. In a next future also Vojvodina will break-away ? The dream of Big Serbia doesn’t exist more ………… now will come out the dream of Big Albania ? We hope no and that Albania, Kosovo and a part of Fyrom (ex Macedonia) stay independent. Don’t forget the other States that like Kosovo, now claim the independence and want become States.
Follows a list:

Asia:
Aceh in Indonesia
Tamil in Sri Lanka
Tibet in China

http://www.euratlas.net/world/countries.html