Vassal state
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The term vassal state commonly refers to any state that was subordinate to another in the pre-modern international system. The '
vassal ' in these cases was the ruler, rather than the state itself. Being a vassal most commonly implied providingmilitary assistance to the dominant state when requested to do so; it sometimes implied payingtribute , but a state which did so is better described as atributary state . [Answers.com [http://www.answers.com/topic/vassal-state] ]The terms 'vassal state' and 'tributary state' are best reserved for the pre-modern era when there was no clear concept of modern state
sovereignty . Today, what could be seen as the modern form of a subordinate state akin to a vassal state, is thepuppet state .References
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