1.   ...San Marino, the tiny upland republic.

2.   After a week without air attacks here, NATO warplanes fired on a Yugoslav army missile battery in this tiny Yugoslav republic on Tuesday night.

3.   Ingushetia is a tiny republic, swamped by refugees and already locked in a nasty territorial row with another neighbor, North Ossetia.

4.   Montenegro, the tiny republic which with Serbia is all that remains of Yugoslavia, is also teetering.

5.   PODGORICA, Montenegro, Yugoslavia By almost any definition this tiny Balkan republic should be a trivia question, meaningless to much of the world.

6.   Russians finally captured Grozny after weeks of struggle, but the embarrassed Russian military has yet to pacify the tiny republic.

7.   The forces withdrew three months later, leaving the tiny Alpine republic to go its own way.

8.   The Montenegrin president, Milo Djukanovic, arrived in Belgrade with a demand for independence for his tiny coastal republic and a union of equal states with Serbia.

9.   The three tiny Baltic republics -- Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania -- were the keys to the kingdom.

10.   The three tiny republics on the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, have negligible armies, meager economies and small voices on the world stage.