The Romans
The region of France today was called Gaul and ruled by the Romans as part of the Roman Empire prior to independence.
French Guiana has not become inependent yet they are sharing borders with France.
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Belgium.
Before the Vatican became an independent country in 1929 the pope lived in the same place as today but it was part of Rome, Italy.
Portugal!
They were independent republics.
a monarchy
France .
They were independent republics.
Finland has been a part of both Russia and Sweden before it became independent on the 6th of December 1917.
They were independent republics