succession state

British

noun

any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state

Czechoslovakia was a succession state of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy

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The draft law was approved by the lower and upper houses of parliament in quick succession, state news agencies said.

From Seattle Times

The third Democrat in the line of succession, state Atty.

From Los Angeles Times

Word spread through Budapest that Yugoslavia, last inviolate succession State in Europe, had offered to discuss with Hungary the return of part of the Banat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mark also well the signs of the times as you look out over Prague, and note whether the spirit of the great departed has not returned to inform the people of Bohemia and of the lands that make up the Succession State of the old Austrian Empire, the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia.

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