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Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded. Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. There is some academic debate about this definition, and in particular how it relates to separatism, as has been discussed online.
Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include:
The United Provinces of the Netherlands breaking away from the Spanish Empire during the Eighty Years' War (1566-1648):
The Thirteen Colonies (the later United States) revolting from the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83);
Hispanic America gaining independence from the Spanish Empire during Spanish American wars of independence;
Texas leaving Mexico, during the Texas Revolution (1835-36);
the Confederate States of America seceding from the Union, setting off the American Civil War;
Panama seceding from Colombia in 1903, during United States acquisition of the Panama Canal;
the Irish Republic leaving the United Kingdom;
Finland voting to leave Soviet Russia in 1917, setting off the Finnish Civil War;
Biafra leaving Nigeria (and returning, after losing the Nigerian Civil War);
the former Soviet republics leaving the Soviet Union in 1991, causing its dissolution;
the former republics leaving Yugoslavia during the 1990s, causing its dissolution.
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