Provisional government
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A provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a previous administration or regime. The early provisional governments were created to prepared for the return of royal rule. Irregularly convened assemblies during the English Revolution, such as Confederate Ireland (1641-49), were described as "provisional." The practice of using "provisional government" as part of a formal name can be traced to Talleyrand's government in France in 1814. The numerous provisional governments during the Revolutions of 1848 gave the word its modern meaning: A liberal government established to prepare for elections. The most notable provisional government was the Russian Provisional Government in 1917.
- Provisional government of Peers of the Realm (Britain) 1688
- Provisional government of Maryland (1774-1777)
- Provisional Government (France) 1814
- Greek Provisional Government (1822-1828)
- French Provisional Government (1848)
- Provisional Government of Sicily (1848-1849)
- Provisional Government of Venice (1849)
- Provisional Government of the United States (1859), John Brown's self-proclaimed anti-slavery republic.
- Provisional Government (Spain) (1868-70)
- Provisional Government of Hawaii (1893), established when a committee of businessmen overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- Provisional Government of Northern Epirus (1914), established against anexation to Albania.
- Provisional Government of India (1915), established in Kabul.
- Provisional Government of the Irish Republic (1916), a title adopted by the leadership of the short-lived Easter Rising.
- Provisional Government of National Defence (northern Greece), 1916
- Russian Provisional Government (1917), established as a result of the February Revolution which overthrew the emperor Nicholas II.
- Estonian Provisional Government (1918-1919)
- Ukrainian Provisional Government (1918).
- Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1919), established in exile based in Shanghai, China and later in Chongqing, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
- Provisional Government of Southern Ireland (1922), established by agreement between the British government and Irish revolutionaries, in order to pave the way for the establishment of the Irish Free State in the same year.
- Provisional Government of Lithuania (1941), established when Lithuanians overthrew the Soviet occupation during the Lithuanian 1941 independence. It functioned briefly until Nazi Germany annexed the country.
- Provisional Government of Free India (1943-1945), established by Indian nationalists in Axis controlled Indian territory in southeast Asia. It had diplomatic relationships with nine countries.
- Provisional Government of Italy (1944)
- Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944-46)
- Provisional government of Israel (1948-49), established after Israel's declaration of independence and in place until after the first Knesset elections.
- Provisional Government of the Syrian Arab Republic (1949), established by national consensus to draft a new constitution and reintroduce civilian rule after a series of military governments.
- Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1958-62) (guerrilla movement)
- Provisional government of Bangladesh (1970-1972), established after Bengali's declaration of freedom exiled to Calcutta.
Provisional governments were also established throughout Europe as occupied nations were liberated from Nazi occupation by the Allies.
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- Flensburg Government (1945), established following the suicides of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels during the closing days of the Third Reich.
- Administration for Western Armenia (1915), established in Van Province.
- South West Caucasian Republic (1919), established in Kars.
- National Council of Government (1986-1988), interim ruling body of Haiti, after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier
- National Salvation Front (1989), after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
- Eritrea has had a transitional government.(1993)
- Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, the Iraqi Interim Government and the Iraqi Transitional Government were all provisional authorities established following the 2003 invasion of Iraq to govern pending the adoption of a permanent constitution.
- Government in exile
- Provisional Revolutionary Government
