Some modern African states have tried to do away with them but found they cannot.

In all modern states, some land is held by central or local governments.

Over the decades, Israel itself became a modern state, one with more problems than most.

The question of the true identify for the modern state was core.

The Church, like the modern state, became a more centralized body.

Official relations between the modern states were established in 1964.

The territory became the modern state of Alabama in 1819.

As a result, the structure of the modern state is distinctly military.

It is in our interest that Russia should develop into a modern, successful and democratic state.

But then, only recently has Turkey become a modern, secular state.