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Republics have existed since Classical Antiquity, such as the Roman Republic and Carthage, but by the time of the start of the Common Era, Carthage was long destroyed and Rome became an empire, temporarily putting an end to republicanism in Europe. Later, during the middle ages, several republics were created in Northern Italy, such as Venice, Pisa, and Genoa, all of them quite small, but wealthy,. There were also several free cities within the Holy Roman Empire that were republics with elected mayors. In the Early modern period, the Dutch republic was also established as an example of a wealthy republic, and a short-lived Protectorate in the British Isles. However, republicanism would take on its modern form thanks to the rising anti-monarchist sentiment stemmingcaused fromby the Enlightenment. and eventsEvents such as the American and French Revolutions would, the modernSpanish-American formWars of republicanism ariseIndependence, becomingand the Russian Civil War would help republics become the dominant form of government by the 1920s, in Europe and the Americas at least.