And then there is Canada, where the Parti Québécois has a long and chequered history of fighting for independence for the francophone province.
He was seen by critics in the province as out of touch; dangerously so because his views were respected in London.
The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system were installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with Protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in the province.
There are now many Iranian free trade zones including not just Kish and Qeshm but Chabahar in Sistan-Baluchistan province and most recently Arvand in Khuzestan.
According to official statistics, the province still suffers the highest unemployment rate in the country, at more than 20%, double the national average.
(Mohamad Ajub, 22, a farmer from Ghazni province) "My house was confiscated by a Chechen jihadi after the advance of the Islamic State through Riqa".
Monckton's men ended up in a heavily forested region now known as the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick where, following a two-week siege, they captured an area previously controlled by French Acadian settlers.
The province of Cádiz feels more foreign, exotic and isolated than neighbouring Málaga.
The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.
On polling day, with a 93% turnout, Quebec narrowly voted 50.5% to 49.5% to remain a Canadian province.
Last week two soldiers were abducted in eastern Arauca province and Santos had warned the Farc that such actions put the peace process at risk.
