Temporary capital

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A temporary capital or a provisional capital is a city or town chosen by a government as an interim base of operations due to some difficulty in retaining or establishing control of a different metropolitan area. The most common circumstances leading to this are either a civil war, where control of the capital is contested, or during an invasion, where the designated capital is taken or threatened.

By definition, a temporary capital is located somewhere on the country's territory, as opposed to a capital-in-exile located on the territory of a different country. However, a country's capital may move in and out of exile over the course of a conflict.

The following list is sorted by the most recent date the temporary capital's status existed.

Current[edit]

Provincial capitals[edit]

For reasons other than war[edit]

  • Brades acts as the de facto temporary capital of Montserrat since 1998, after the de jure capital of Montserrat at Plymouth in the south of the island was abandoned in 1997 after it was buried by the eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1995. Interim government buildings have since been built at Brades, becoming the new temporary capital in 1998. The move is intended to be temporary, but it has remained the island's de facto capital ever since. A new official capital is now being constructed in the Little Bay area.[2]

21st century[edit]

Cold War[edit]

World War II[edit]

Interwar period[edit]

World War I[edit]

19th century[edit]

See also[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ "Yemen's President Hadi declares new 'temporary capital'". Deutsche Welle. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ Jonnard, M. Jonnard Claude M.; Jonnard, Claude M. (November 2009). Islands in the Wind: The Political Economy of the English East Caribbean. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4401-9426-9.
  3. ^ "Ukraine's western capital Lviv readies itself as threat of conflict grows". Financial Times. 18 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Ukraine's Lviv in spotlight as diplomats and others leave Kyiv – the Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/*/loga.gov.ua
  6. ^ Staff (26 February 2011). "Libya's Ex-Justice Minister Forms Interim Government in Benghazi – Former Libyan Minister Says Gadhafi 'Alone' Bore Responsibility for Crimes That Occurred, Qurnya Newspaper Reports". Haaretz. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  7. ^ "中華民國首都".
  8. ^ Cho, author. Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. OCLC 958762316. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ Jackson 2001, p. 142.
  10. ^ "Iaşi, Romania's historical capital, looking to find the path to its former glory". Romania Insider. City Compass Media. January 24, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Capital Cities of the Confederacy". The American Battlefield Trust. 9 December 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  12. ^ Herrera, Enrique (January 28, 2020). "¿Por qué Pasto fue capital de la República?". Página 10 (in Spanish). Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  13. ^ Woods, John (September 15, 2020). "Do you know which cities were the capitals of Hungary before?". Daily News Hungary. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

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