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| x House of Wessex |
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Harold Godwinson |
The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, refers to the family that ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex. This House was in power from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex to the unification of the Kingdoms of England...
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| x Tudor dynasty |
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Henry VII of England |
The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch Henry Tudor, descended paternally from the rulers of the Welsh principality of Deheubarth, and...
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| x House of Stuart |
The House of Stuart, also known as the House of Stewart, is an important European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century. Their direct ancestors (from...
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| x House of Hanover |
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George I of Great Britain |
The House of Hanover (the Hanoverians) is a Germanic royal dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Braunschweig-Lüneburg), the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. It succeeded the...
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| x House of Windsor |
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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | 1917 |
The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. It is a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), which adopted the name Windsor by a royal...
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| x Fifth dynasty of Egypt |
The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Old Kingdom.
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Fifth Dynasty are as follows:
Manetho writes that the Fifth Dynasty kings ruled from...
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| x Chakri Dynasty |
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Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke | 1782 |
The Chakri Dynasty (also known as the House of Chakri) (Thai: ราชวงศ์จักรี) is the current ruling royal house of the Kingdom of Thailand, the Head of the house is the King of Thailand. The Dynasty has ruled Thailand since the founding of the...
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| Buddha Loetla Nabhalai | |||||
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| x House of Plantagenet | Edward II of England |
The House of Plantagenet (pronounced /plænˈtædʒɨnɨt/), or First House of Anjou, was a royal house founded by Henry II of England, son of Geoffrey V of Anjou. The Plantagenet kings first ruled the Kingdom of England in the 12th century. Their male...
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| Henry II of England | |||||
| Richard II of England | |||||
| Edward III of England | |||||
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| x House of Orange-Nassau |
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William III of England |
The House of Orange-Nassau (in Dutch: Huis van Oranje-Nassau), a branch of the European House of Nassau, has played a central role in the political life of the Netherlands — and at times in Europe — since William I of Orange (also known as "William...
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| William the Silent | |||||
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | |||||
| William I of the Netherlands | |||||
| Juliana of the Netherlands | |||||
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| x Clan Bruce |
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Robert I of Scotland |
Clan Bruce is a Scottish clan from Kincardine in Scotland. It was a Royal House in the 14th century, producing two kings of Scotland.
The name Bruce comes from the French 'de Brus' or 'de Bruis', a land now called Brix, situated between Cherbourg...
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| x Ptolemaic dynasty |
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Cleopatra VII of Egypt |
The Ptolemaic dynasty (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖοι, sometimes also known as the Lagids, Ancient Greek: Λαγίδαι, from the name of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus) was a Greek royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt during the Hellenistic...
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| x House of Rochechouart |
The House of Limoges-Rochechouart is the most ancient noble family in France after the royal family. This powerful dynasty of the Carolingian era dates back to Foucher, supporter of Charles the Bald, who became viscount (vicomte) of Limoges in 876....
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| x Rurik Dynasty |
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Rurik |
The Rurik Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' (since 862), the successor principalities of Galicia-Volhynia (since 1199), Vladimir-Suzdal, and Grand Duchy of Moscow, as well as early Tsardom of Russia (since 1168).
According to the Primary...
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The Almoravids are a Berber dynasty of Sahara, which lived between the current Senegal and south of the current Morocco
It is affiliated to the Berber tribe of Sanhaja and Lamtuna. From the eleventh century to the twelfth century, they ruled the...
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| x Carolingian Dynasty |
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Pippin the Younger |
The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolings, or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered...
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| Charlemagne | |||||
| Louis the Pious | |||||
| Lothair I | |||||
| Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor | |||||
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The Goryeo Dynasty or Koryŏ (Officially the Kingdom of Goryeo) (918-1392) was a sovereign state established in 918 by King Taejo. It united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean peninsula until it was removed by the Joseon...
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| x Ming Dynasty |
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The Ming Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; pinyin: Míng Cháo), or Empire of the Great Ming (simplified Chinese: 大明国; traditional Chinese: 大明國; pinyin: Dà Míng Guó, also anachronistically simplified Chinese: 大明帝国; traditional Chinese: 大明帝國; pinyin: Dà Míng Dìguó...
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| x Bagrationi Dynasty |
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Tamar of Georgia |
The Bagrationi dynasty (Georgian: ბაგრატიონი, bagrationi, ბაგრატიონთა დინასტია, bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendency lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early 19th century. In modern usage, this royal...
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| x House of Romanov |
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Paul I of Russia | 1613 | 1917 |
The House of Romanov (Russian: Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf]) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917. From 1762 until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire was ruled for five...
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| Alexander III of Russia | |||||
| Peter II of Russia | |||||
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The Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝; pinyin: Sòng Cháo; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'ao) was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government...
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| x Merovingian dynasty |
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Childeric I |
The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin) largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the fifth century. Their politics involved frequent civil...
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| x Ayyubid dynasty |
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Saladin |
The Ayyubids (Arabic: الأيوبيون, Kurdish:ایوبیان) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin centered in Cairo and Damascus that ruled much of the Middle East during the 12th and 13th centuries CE. The Ayyubid family, under the brothers Ayyub...
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| x Han Dynasty |
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The Han Dynasty (simplified Chinese: 汉朝; traditional Chinese: 漢朝; pinyin: Hàn Cháo; Wade-Giles: Han Ch'ao; 206 BCE–220 CE) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms (220...
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The Zhou Dynasty (Chinese: 周朝; pinyin: Zhōu Cháo; Wade-Giles: Chou Ch`ao; 1045 BCE to 256 BCE) followed the Shang Dynasty and was followed by the Qin Dynasty in China. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history—though...
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| x Chalukya dynasty |
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The Chalukya dynasty (Kannada: ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯರು, IPA: [tʃaːɭukjə]) was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries. During this period, they ruled as three related, but individual...
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| x Tang Dynasty |
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The Tang Dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝; pinyin: Táng Cháo; Middle Chinese: dhɑng) (June 18, 618 – June 4, 907) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li ...
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| x Qing Dynasty |
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Puyi | 1644 | 1912 |
The Qing Dynasty (Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: Qīng cháo; Wade-Giles: Ch'ing ch'ao; Manchu: , Von Möllendorff: Daicing gurun), also known as the Manchu Dynasty, was the last ruling dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 (with a brief, abortive...
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| Daoguang Emperor | |||||
| Hung Taiji | |||||
| Shunzhi Emperor | |||||
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| x Chola dynasty |
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The Chola dynasty (Tamil: சோழர் குலம், IPA: ['t͡ʃoːɻə]) was a Tamil dynasty which ruled over parts of southern India. The earliest datable references to the dynasty are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BC left by Asoka, a northern ruler, and the...
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| x Piast dynasty |
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Leszek II the Black |
The Piast dynasty was the first Polish historical Royal dynasty that ruled Poland from its beginnings starting with the semi-legendary Piast Kołodziej (Piast the Wheelwright). The first historically undisputed Piast ruler is Mieszko I from 10th...
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| Mieszko II Lambert | |||||
| Lestko | |||||
| Władysław III Spindleshanks | |||||
| Leszek I the White | |||||
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| x Liang Dynasty |
Liang Dynasty (梁朝; Pinyin: Liáng cháo) (502-557), also known as Southern Liang Dynasty (南梁), was the third of Southern dynasties in China, followed by the Chen Dynasty. Western Liang Dynasty (西梁), with its capital established at Jiangling in 555 by...
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| x Qajar dynasty |
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Nasser al-Din Shah | 1794 | 1925 |
The Qajar dynasty Qajar (help·info)) (Persian: سلسله قاجاریه - or دودمان قاجار, also anglicized as Ghajar or Kadjar) was a Turco-Persian Qajar royal family who ruled Persia (the country now known as Iran) from 1794 to 1925. The Qajar family took...
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| Ahmad Shah Qajar | |||||
| Mohammad Shah Qajar | |||||
| Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar | |||||
| Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar | |||||
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| x Seljuq dynasty |
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The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Persian: سلجوقيان Ṣaljūqīyān; in Arabic سلجوق Saljūq, or السلاجقة al-Salājiqa) were a Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the...
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| x Jagiellon dynasty |
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The Jagiellons (Lithuanian: Jogailaičiai, Polish: Jagiellonowie) were a royal dynasty originating from the Lithuanian House of Gediminas dynasty that reigned in Central European countries (present day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia,...
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| x Joseon Dynasty |
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Joseon (July 1392 – August 1910) (also Chosŏn, Choson, Chosun), was a Korean sovereign state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo Kingdom at what...
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| x Sui Dynasty |
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The Sui Dynasty (Chinese: 隋朝; pinyin: Suí cháo; 581-618 CE) followed by the Tang Dynasty and preceded by the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes.
The Sui Dynasty, founded by...
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| x Shang Dynasty |
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The Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty (殷代) was, according to traditional sources, the second Chinese dynasty, after the Xia Dynasty. They ruled in the northeastern regions of the area known as "China proper", in the Yellow River valley....
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| x Přemyslid dynasty |
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Ottokar I of Bohemia |
The Přemyslids (Czech: Přemyslovci, German: Premysliden, Polish: Przemyślidzi), were a Czech royal dynasty which reigned in Bohemia (9th century–1306) and in Poland (1300–1306).
The name of the dynasty, according to Cosmas in his Chronica Boemorum ...
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| Vratislaus II of Bohemia | |||||
| Vladislaus II of Bohemia | |||||
| Ottokar II of Bohemia | |||||
| Venceslaus II of Bohemia | |||||
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| x Yuan Dynasty |
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The Yuan Dynasty (Chinese: 元朝; pinyin: Yuáncháo; Mongolian: Dai Ön Ulus/Дай Юан Улс), or Great Yuan Empire (simplified Chinese: 大元帝国; traditional Chinese: 大元帝國; pinyin: Dà Yuán Dìguó) was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol...
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| x Jìn Dynasty |
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The Jìn Dynasty (simplified Chinese: 晋朝; traditional Chinese: 晉朝; pinyin: Jìn Cháo; Wade-Giles: Chin⁴-ch'ao²; 265–420), one of the Six Dynasties, following the Three Kingdoms period and followed by the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. The...
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| x Konbaung dynasty |
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The Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1885), sometimes called the Alaungpaya Dynasty or the House of Alompra by British colonial rulers, was the last in the history of the Burmese monarchy. It was also known to be the second largest Burmese Empire in its...
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| x Safavid dynasty |
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Abbas I of Persia |
The Safavids (Persian: صفویان;Azerbaijani: صفویلر,Safevi; Georgian: სეფიანთა დინასტია) were one of the ruling dynasties of Iran. They ruled one of the greatest Iranian empires since the Islamic conquest of Persia and established the Ithnāˤashari ...
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| x Liao Dynasty |
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The Liao Dynasty (simplified Chinese: 辽朝; traditional Chinese: 遼朝; pinyin: Liáo Cháo), 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire (契丹國, Hanyu Pinyin: Qi4dan1 Guo2), was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and...
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| x Timurid Dynasty |
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Shah Jahan |
The Timurids (Persian: تیموریان), self-designated Gurkānī (Persian: گوركانى), were a Persianate Central Asian Sunni Muslim dynasty of originally Turko-Mongol descent whose empire included the whole of Central Asia, Iran, modern Afghanistan, as well...
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| x Valois Dynasty |
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The House of Valois (French pronunciation: [vaˈlwa] was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet (or 'Direct Capetians') as kings of France from 1328 to 1589. A cadet branch of the family reigned as dukes of Burgundy...
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| x Capetian dynasty |
The Capetian dynasty is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of Hugh Capet of France in the male line. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the...
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| x Salian dynasty |
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The Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four German Kings (1024-1125), also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia. All of these kings were also crowned Holy Roman Emperor (1027...
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| x Pahlavi dynasty |
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) ruled Iran from the crowning of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, following the overthrow of Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty, already weakened by Soviet and British occupation. The National...
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| x Solomonic dynasty |
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Yohannes IV of Ethiopia |
The Solomonic dynasty is the traditional Imperial House of Ethiopia, claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically described visit to Solomon...
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| Zara Yaqob | |||||
| Yekuno Amlak of Ethiopia | |||||
| Menelek II of Ethiopia | |||||
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| x Bagratuni Dynasty |
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The Bagratuni or Bagratid royal dynasty of Armenia (Armenian: Բագրատունյաց Արքայական Տոհմ or Pakradounyatz Arkayagan Dohm) is a royal family whose branches formerly ruled many regional polities, including the Armenian lands of Syunik, Lori,...
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| x Saffarid dynasty |
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The Saffarids or the Saffarid dynasty (Persian: سلسله صفاریان), was an Iranian Persian empire which ruled in Sistan (861-1003), a historical region in southeastern Iran, southwestern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.. Their capital was Zaranj....
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| x Qin Dynasty |
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The Qin Dynasty (Chinese: 秦朝; pinyin: Qín Cháo; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Ch'ao) was the ruling Chinese dynasty between 221 and 206 BCE. The Qin state was named because the people of is homeland were called the qin. The Qin's strength had been consolidated...
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| x Chen Dynasty |
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Chen Dynasty (陳朝 (Pinyin: Chén cháo)) (557-589) was the fourth and the last of the Southern dynasties in China, eventually destroyed by the Sui Dynasty.
When the dynasty was founded by Emperor Wu, it was exceedingly weak, possessing only a small...
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| x Nanda Dynasty |
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The Nanda Empire originated from the kingdom of Magadha in Ancient India during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. At its greatest extent, the Nandas extended from Bengal in the east, Punjab in the west and as far south as the Vindhya Range. The Nanda...
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| x Nguyễn Dynasty |
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The Nguyễn Dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn; Hán Việt: 阮朝, Nguyễn triều) was the last ruling family of Vietnam. Their rule lasted a total of 143 years. It began in 1802 when Emperor Gia Long ascended the throne after defeating the Tây Sơn Dynasty and...
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| x Árpád dynasty |
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Ladislaus I of Hungary |
The Árpáds or Arpads (Hungarian: Árpádok, Croatian: Arpadovići, Serbian: Арпадовићи, Slovak: Arpádovci, Turkish: Arpatlar) was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Magyar tribes (9th-10th centuries) and of the Kingdom of Hungary (1000 or 1001...
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| x Antigonid dynasty |
The Antigonid dynasty was a dynasty of Hellenistic kings descended from Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed").
Succeeding the Antipatrid dynasty in much of Macedonia, Antigonus ruled mostly over Asia Minor and...
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| x Comnenus dynasty |
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Alexios I Komnenos |
The Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Κομνηνός, Κομνηνοί) was a Byzantine Greek noble family and an important ruling Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, as they are widely considered to have reversed the decline of the Byzantine Empire for over a century,...
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| x Lê Dynasty |
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The Later Lê Dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Hậu Lê; Hán Việt: 後黎朝), sometimes referred to as the Lê Dynasty (the earlier Lê Dynasty ruled only for a brief period) was the longest-ruling dynasty of Vietnam, ruling the country from 1428 to 1788, with a...
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| x Chera dynasty |
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The Chera Dynasty (Tamil: சேரர், Malayalam: ചേരരാജ്യം) was a Dravidian Tamil dynasty that ruled in southern India from before the Sangam era (300 BC - AD 250) until the twelfth century AD. Kalitokai, a Sangha work describes Cheras as Villavar people...
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The Xia Dynasty (Chinese: 夏朝; pinyin: Xià Cháo; Wade-Giles: hsia-ch'ao) of China is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals. The Xia Dynasty was established by the...
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