1952: Bolivarian, and Other Republics Apr 19, 2020

There are lots of names for republics, such as Islamic Republics, (e.g. Afghanistan; Iran), Democratic Republics (e.g. Congo), so-called Democratic Republics (e.g. China; Bangladesh), People's Democratic Republics (e.g Laos) and many more qualifications, though these don't really have any specific meaning. Some countries will also officially use their own names, such as Argentine Republic or Portuguese Republic, but there is one country which uses neither description nor name: that of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This name for Venezuela was only adopted in place of Republic of Venezuela in 1999 to reflect the "Bolivarian Revolution", a socialist uprising, named after Simón Bolívar whose own liberal revolutions occurred some 190 years earlier.

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