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| x Vietnam |
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Hanoi | Single-party state | Vietnamese Language |
Vietnam ( listen), formally the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam; listen), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2011, it is the...
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2879 B.C.E. |
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| x Babylon |
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Babylon | Akkadian language |
Babylon (Arabic: بابل, Babil; Akkadian: Bābili(m); Sumerian logogram: KÁ.DINGIR.RA; Hebrew: בָּבֶל, Bābel; Greek: Βαβυλών, Babylōn) was an Akkadian city-state (founded in 1867 BC by an Amorite dynasty) of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which...
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1867 B.C.E. | |
| x Ethiopia |
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Addis Ababa | Federal republic | Amharic Language |
Ethiopia ( /ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/) (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and...
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980 B.C.E. |
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| x Kingdom of Judah |
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Jerusalem | Monarchy | Hebrew Language |
The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew: מַמְלֶכֶת יְהוּדָה (Mamlekhet Yehuda) was a state established in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. It is often referred to as the "Southern Kingdom" to distinguish it from the northern Kingdom of Israel.
Judah...
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930 B.C.E. |
| x Classical Athens |
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Athens | Athenian democracy |
The city of Athens during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508–322 BC) was a notable polis (city-state) of Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. Athenian democracy was...
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508 B.C.E. | |
| x Roman Empire |
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Rome | Dictatorship |
The Roman Empire (Latin: IMPERIVM ROMANVM) was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.
The 500-year-old...
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27 B.C.E. | |
| Ravenna | Family dictatorship | |||||
| Constantinople | Autocracy | |||||
| Milan | Monarchy | |||||
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| x Greater Khorasan |
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Greater Khorasan or Ancient Khorasan (Persian: خراسان بزرگ or خراسان کهن) (also written Khurasan) is a historical region of Greater Iran mentioned in sources from Sassanid and Islamic eras which "frequently" had a denotation wider than current...
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3 C.E. | |||
| x Iudaea |
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Judea (Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yehuda Tiberian Yehûḏāh; Greek: Ἰουδαία; Latin: IVDÆA), sometimes spelled in its original Latin form Iudaea to distinguish from Judea proper, is a term used by historians to refer to the Roman province that...
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6 C.E. | |||
| x Former Liang |
The Former Liang (Chinese: 前涼; pinyin: Qián Liáng; 320–376) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin dynasty (265–420) in China. It was founded by the Zhang family of the Han Chinese. Its territories included present-day Gansu and parts of...
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265 C.E. | ||||
| x Western Roman Empire |
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Milan |
The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire. (The other half is the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire.) Administrative division of the sprawling Empire into a western and eastern half with co-emperors for each...
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285 C.E. | ||
| Ravenna | ||||||
| x Byzantine Empire |
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Constantinople | Autocracy | Medieval Greek |
The Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) was the Eastern Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the "Roman Empire" (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, Basileia Rhōmaiōn; Latin: Imperium...
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May 11, 330 C.E. |
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| x Former Yan |
The Former Yan (Chinese: 前燕; pinyin: Qiányàn; 337-370) was a state of Xianbei ethnicity during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.
Initially, Murong Huang and his son Murong Jun claimed the Jin Dynasty (265-420)-created title "Prince of Yan," but...
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337 C.E. | ||||
| x Former Qin |
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Taiyuan |
The Former Qin (351-394) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China. Founded by the Fu family of the Di ethnicity, it completed the unification of North China in 376. Its capital had been Xi'an up to the death of the ruler Fu Jiān. Despite its...
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351 C.E. | ||
| Chang'an | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Galicia |
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The Kingdom of Galicia (Galician: Reino da Galiza or de Galicia, Portuguese: Reino da Galiza, Latin: Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the...
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411 C.E. | |||
| x Frankish Empire |
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Monarchy |
Francia or Frankia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks or Frankish Kingdom (Latin: regnum Francorum), Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from the 3rd to the 10th century. Under the nearly...
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481 C.E. | ||
| x Neustria |
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The territory of Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new [western] land", originated in 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities...
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511 C.E. | |||
| x Wessex |
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Winchester | Monarchy | Old English language |
The Kingdom of Wessex ( /ˈwɛsɨks/) or Kingdom of the West Saxons (Old English: Westseaxna rīce) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons in South West England, from the 6th century until the emergence of a united English state under the Wessex...
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519 C.E. |
| x Kingdom of the Lombards | Milan |
The Kingdom of the Lombards or Lombard Kingdom (Regnum Langobardorum in Latin) was an early medieval Germanic state, with its capital in Pavia, established by the Lombards on the Italian Peninsula between 568-569 (invasion of Italy) and 774 (fall of...
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568 C.E. | |||
| Pavia | ||||||
| Monza | ||||||
| x Rashidun Caliphate |
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Medina | Caliphate |
The Rashidun Caliphate (Arabic: الخلافة الراشدية al-khilāfat ar-Rāshidīyah), (c. 632-661) comprising the first four caliphs in Islam's history, was founded after Muhammad's death in 632 (Year 10 A.H. in the Islamic calendar). At its height, the...
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632 C.E. | |
| Kufa | ||||||
| x Emirate of Armenia |
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Dvin | Monarchy | Armenian Language |
The Emirate of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Էմիրություն), also called the Principality of Armenia, refers to an aristocratic regime in early medieval Armenia that flourished in the period of interregnum between the seventh and ninth centuries,...
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637 C.E. |
| Principality | Arabic Language | |||||
| Emirate | ||||||
| x Bulgaria |
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Sofia | Parliamentary system | Bulgarian Language |
Bulgaria /bʌlˈɡɛəriə/ (Bulgarian: България, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), is a parliamentary republic in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south and the...
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681 C.E. |
| Parliamentary republic | ||||||
| x Republic of Venice |
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Eraclea |
The Republic of Venice (Italian: Repubblica di Venezia, Venetian: Repùblica Vèneta or Repùblica de Venesia) was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797...
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697 C.E. | ||
| Venice | ||||||
| x Papal States |
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Rome | Theocracy | Italian Language |
The Papal State(s), the State(s) of the Church, the Pontifical States, the Ecclesiastical States, or the Roman States (Italian: Stato Pontificio, also Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa, Stati Pontifici, and Stato Ecclesiastico; Latin: Status...
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754 C.E. |
| Elective monarchy | Latin Language | |||||
| x Holy Roman Empire |
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Regensburg | Elective monarchy | Latin Language |
The Holy Roman Empire (HRE; German: Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR), Latin: Imperium Romanum Sacrum (IRS), Italian: Sacro Romano Impero (SRI)) was a German empire that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe. It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor...
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Dec 25, 800 C.E. |
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| x Kingdom of Navarre |
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Pamplona | Hereditary monarchy |
The Kingdom of Navarre (Basque: Nafarroako Erresuma, Spanish: Reino de Navarra, French: Royaume de Navarre, Latin: Regnum Navarrae), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a European kingdom which occupied lands on either side of the Pyrenees...
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824 C.E. | |
| x Great Moravia |
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Mikulčice |
Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an...
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833 C.E. | ||
| Velehrad | ||||||
| x Scotland |
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Edinburgh | Constitutional monarchy | Scottish English |
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba ([ˈalˠ̪apə] listen (help·info))) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North...
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843 C.E. |
| Devolution | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Scotland |
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Edinburgh | Monarchy |
The Kingdom of Scotland (Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba, Scots: Kinrick o Scotland) was a sovereign state in Northern Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the...
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843 C.E. | |
| Scone | ||||||
| x Emirate of Bari |
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Emirate |
The Emirate of Bari was a short-lived Saracen state (emirate) centred on the south Italian city of Bari from 847 to 871. It was the most lasting episode in the history of Islam in peninsular southern Italy.
Bari first became the object of Arab or...
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847 C.E. | ||
| x Norway |
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Oslo | Parliamentary system | Nynorsk |
Norway /ˈnɔrweɪ/ (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic...
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872 C.E. |
| Constitutional monarchy | Bokmål | |||||
| Unitary state | Norwegian Language | |||||
| Sami languages | ||||||
| x Kievan Rus' |
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Kiev |
Kievan Rus (also Kyivan Rus) was a medieval polity in Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240.
Contemporarily, the state was known as "land of the Rus'" (Old...
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880 C.E. | ||
| Velikiy Novgorod | ||||||
| x Hungary |
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Budapest | Republic | Hungarian language |
Hungary /ˈhʌŋɡəri/ (Hungarian: Magyarország [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ] ( listen)) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to...
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895 C.E. |
| Parliamentary republic | Hungarian Sign Language | |||||
| x Duchy of Normandy |
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The Duchy of Normandy stems from various Danish, Norwegian, Hiberno-Norse, Orkney Viking and Anglo-Danish (from the Danelaw) invasions of France in the 9th century. A fief, probably as a county, was created by the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in...
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911 C.E. | |||
| x Kingdom of England |
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Westminster | Monarchy | Old English language |
The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain (including both modern-day England and Wales...
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927 C.E. |
| Winchester | Norman language | |||||
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| x Song Dynasty |
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Kaifeng |
The Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝; pinyin: Sòng Cháo; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'ao; IPA: [sʊ̂ŋ tʂʰɑ̌ʊ̯]) 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...
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960 C.E. | ||
| Hangzhou | ||||||
| x Emirate of Sicily |
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Palermo |
The Emirate of Sicily was an Islamic state on the island of Sicily (in Southern Italy), which existed from 965 to 1072.
In 535, Emperor Justinian I returned Sicily to the empire, now ruled from Constantinople exclusively. As the power of the empire...
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965 C.E. | ||
| x Kingdom of Hungary |
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Székesfehérvár |
The Kingdom of Hungary was a country in Central Europe covering what is today Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania (now part of Romania), Carpatho Ruthenia (now part of Ukraine), Vojvodina (now part of Serbia), Burgenland (now part of Austria), and other...
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1001 | ||
| Bratislava | ||||||
| Debrecen | ||||||
| Budapest | ||||||
| Esztergom | ||||||
| x Republic of Genoa |
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Genoa | Republic |
The Most Serene Republic of Genoa (Italian: Repubblica di Genova, Ligurian: Repúbrica de Zêna) was an independent state from 1005 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast, as well as Corsica from 1347 to 1768, and numerous other...
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1005 | |
| Oligarchy | ||||||
| x Georgia |
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Tbilisi | Semi-presidential system | Georgian Language |
Georgia /ˈdʒɔrdʒə/ (Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo, IPA: [sɑkʰɑrtʰvɛlɔ] ( listen)) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to...
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1008 |
| Republic | ||||||
| Unitary state | ||||||
| x Lithuania |
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Vilnius | Semi-presidential system | Lithuanian language |
Lithuania (/ˌlɪθuːˈeɪniə/ or /ˌlɪθjuːˈeɪniə/; Lithuanian: Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika) is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern...
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Feb 14, 1009 |
| Parliamentary republic | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Aragon |
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Zaragoza | Monarchy |
The Kingdom of Aragon (Aragonese: Reino d'Aragón, Catalan: Regne d'Aragó, Latin: Regnum Aragonum, Spanish: Reino de Aragón) was a medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of...
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1035 | |
| x Great Seljuq Empire | Ray |
The Great Seljuq Empire (Turkish: Büyük Selçuklu Devleti, Persian: دولت سلجوقیان) was a medieval Turkic empire, with a Turko-PersianSunni Muslim heritage, originating from the Qynyq branch of Oghuz Turks. The Seljuq Empire controlled a vast area...
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1037 | |||
| Nishapur | ||||||
| Isfahan | ||||||
| Hamedan | ||||||
| x Burma |
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Naypyidaw | Presidential system | Burmese Language |
Burma /ˈbɜrmə/ BUR-mə, also known as Myanmar /ˌmjɑːnˈmɑr/ MYAHN--MAR, is a country in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is bordered by India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 mi)...
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1044 |
| Unitary state | ||||||
| x Wales | Cardiff | Constitutional monarchy | Welsh Language |
Wales /ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a...
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1056 | |
| Devolution | English Language | |||||
| x Württemberg |
Württemberg (German pronunciation: [ˈvʏɐ̯təmˌbɛɐ̯k]), formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia.
Its traditional capital was Stuttgart. For...
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1089 | ||||
| x Kingdom of Travancore |
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Padmanabhapuram | Absolute monarchy | Malayalam Language |
Kingdom of Travancore ( /ˈtrævəŋkɔər/; Malayalam: തിരുവിതാംകൂര്, tiruvitāṁkūr [t̪iɾuʋit̪aːɱkuːr]) was a former Hindu feudal kingdom (till 1858) and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore...
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1102 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Tamil Language | |||||
| English Language | ||||||
| x Baden | Baden-Baden |
Baden is a historical region on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg (state) of Germany.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split...
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1112 | |||
| Karlsruhe | ||||||
| x Duchy of Pomerania |
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Szczecin |
The Duchy of Pomerania (German: Herzogtum Pommern, Polish: Księstwo Pomorskie, 12th century – 1637) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins).
The duchy originated from the...
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1121 | ||
| Wolgast | ||||||
| Demmin | ||||||
| x Portugal |
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Lisbon | Parliamentary system | Portuguese Language |
Portugal /ˈpɔrtʃʉɡəl/ (Portuguese: Portugal, IPA: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa) is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula . Portugal is the westernmost country of...
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Jul 24, 1128 |
| Constitutional republic | ||||||
| Unitary state | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Sicily |
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Palermo |
The Kingdom of Sicily (Italian: Regno di Sicilia, Latin: Regnum Siciliae, Sicilian: Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in the south of Italy from its founding by Roger II in 1130 until 1816. It was a successor state of the County of Sicily,...
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1130 | ||
| Naples | ||||||
| Catania | ||||||
| x Crown of Aragon |
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Barcelona |
The Crown of Aragon (Aragonese: Corona d'Aragón, Catalan: Corona d'Aragó, Latin: Corona Aragonum, Spanish: Corona de Aragón) was a personal and dynastic union of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of Aragon. At the height of its...
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1137 | ||
| Naples | ||||||
| Zaragoza | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Portugal |
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Lisbon | Popular monarchy |
The Kingdom of Portugal (Portuguese: Reino de Portugal, Latin: Regnum Portugalliae), or the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves (Portuguese: Reino de Portugal e dos Algarves, Latin: Regnum Portugalliae et Algarbia), was Portugal's general...
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1139 | |
| Coimbra | ||||||
| x Lordship of Ireland |
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Dublin |
The Lordship of Ireland (Irish: Tiarnas na hÉireann) was a period of feudal rule in Ireland between 1177 and 1541 under the King of England, styled as Lord of Ireland. The lordship was created as a Papal possession following the Norman invasion of...
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1171 | ||
| Carlow | ||||||
| x Oldenburg |
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The Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Herzogtum Oldenburg) — named after its capital, the town of Oldenburg — was a state in the north-west of present-day Germany. Oldenburg survived from 1180 until 1810 when it was annexed by First French Empire. It was...
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1180 | |||
| x Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Sarajevo | Federal republic | Bosnian language |
Bosnia and Herzegovina (/ˈbɒzniə ən hɛrtsəɡoʊˈviːnə/; Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Cyrillic script: Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the...
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Aug 29, 1189 |
| Federation | Serbian language | |||||
| Republic | Croatian language | |||||
| Parliamentary republic | ||||||
| x Guernsey |
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St Peter Port | Monarchy | English Language |
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey ( /ˈɡɜrnzi/ GURN-zee; French: Bailliage de Guernesey, IPA: [bajaʒ də ɡɛʁnəzɛ]), is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey embraces not...
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1204 |
| French Language | ||||||
| x Jersey |
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Saint Helier | Parliamentary system | English Language |
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, French: Bailliage de Jersey ( /ˈdʒɜrzi/, French: [ʒɛʁzɛ]; Jèrriais: Jèrri), is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes...
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1204 |
| Constitutional monarchy | French Language | |||||
| x Mongolia |
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Ulaanbaatar | Parliamentary republic | Mongolian language |
Mongolia /mɒŋˈɡoʊliə/ (Mongolian: Монгол улс (help·info), literally Mongol country/state) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not...
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1206 |
| Semi-presidential system | ||||||
| x Mongol Empire |
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Avarga | Elective monarchy |
The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: listen (help·info) Mongol-yn Ezent Güren; Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн; Kazakh: Моңғол қағандығы) existed during the 13th and 14th A.D., and was the largest contiguous land empire in human history. Beginning in the...
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1206 | |
| Karakorum | ||||||
| Khanbaliq | ||||||
| x Kingdom of Bohemia |
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Prague | Monarchy |
The Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech: České království; German: Königreich Böhmen; Latin: Regnum Bohemiae) was a country located in the region of Bohemia in Central Europe, most of whose territory is currently located in the modern-day Czech Republic. The...
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1212 | |
