The European microstates are a set of very small sovereign states in Europe. While Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City are usually included, Luxembourg and Cyprus share certain features as well. Microstates are small independent states recognized by larger states, unlike micronations, which are only self-declared and are seldom recognized.
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“Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)