Editing Micronation (section)

=== Based on historical claims ===
Some micronations are founded on the basis of historical anomalies. The [[Principality of Seborga]] was founded in 1963 by Giorgio Carbone, who claimed to have found documents from the [[Vatican archives]] which, according to Carbone, indicated that [[Seborga]] had never been a possession of the [[House of Savoy]] and was thus not legally included in the [[Kingdom of Italy]] when it was formed in 1861, meaning that Seborga had remained sovereign.<ref>{{cite news|date=27 November 2009|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/6671765/His-Tremendousness-Giorgio-Carbone.html|title=His Tremendousness Giorgio Carbone|work=The Telegraph|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|last=Bosio|first=Dario|date=27 February 2018|url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180226-an-italian-village-that-wants-independence|type=short documentary|title=An Italian village that wants independence|work=[[BBC Travel]]|publisher=BBC News}}</ref>{{sfn|Ryan|Dunford|Sellars|2006|p=28–33}} The [[Romanov Empire (micronation)|Romanov Empire]], created by chairman of the [[Monarchist Party of Russia]] [[Anton Bakov]], claims to be a re-creation of the [[Russian Empire]] that holds [[Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen]] as the rightful [[heir]] to the imperial throne.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bernard|first1=Lagan|last2=Parfitt|first2=Tom|date=28 February 2017|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/paradise-lost-for-russian-and-dream-of-an-empire-in-the-sun-c3s088tdw|title=Russian monarchist dreams of Romanov revival in the Pacific|work=The Times|url-access=subscription}}</ref>