Republican

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Republican can refer to:

Advocates of a republic, a form of government based on the rule of laws, not a monarchy or dictatorship.

• Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics.
• Advocates of the abolition of a monarchy; for example, the Australian Republican Movement, the British republican movement or the Canadian republican movement.
• A member of a Republican Party:
  • List of Republican Parties, a complete listing.
  • Republican Party (United States), a conservative party in the U.S.
  • Fianna Fáil, a centrist Irish party also known as the Republican Party.
  • List of Republican People's Parties, a complete listing.

Institutions or supporters of particular governments that called themselves republics, including:

• List of republics, a complete listing.
• Roman Republic, as well as supporters of the Republic during the Roman Empire.
• Second Spanish Republic, during the Spanish Civil War.
• Various French Republics, most notably the First Republic established during the French Revolution.
• Irish Republicanism, tied up in the Irish independence movement.

Place names:

• Republican River, a river in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas in the United States.
• The Republican (Springfield), a newspaper published in Springfield, Massachusetts.