While we know of countries balkanizing, is there any such thing as lower-level balkanizing? Like, some regions within a province balkanizing, becoming their own province while still staying a part of the same country, a neighborhood within a city leaving the city and becoming its own city, while still remaining part of the country, etc.
County Wicklow split out of County Dublin in 1605. Prior to that Meath had part separate forming Westmeath