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Kingdom of Allada

The Kingdom of Allada, known to the French as Ardres, was a West African kingdom on the Slave Coast founded around 1550 by emigrants from Tado and conquered by Dahomey in 1724.

Kingdom of Alodia

The Kingdom of Alodia, also called Alwa, was a Christian Nubian kingdom in central Sudan with its capital at Soba, converted to Christianity around 580.

Kingdom of Altava, later name of the Mauro-Roman kingdom (Regnum Maurorum et Romanorum), a Christian Berber kingdom at Altava (Ouled Mimoun, Algeria) under Masuna (508), Garmul (died 579), and Caecilius (died 690).

Kingdom of Ani

The Kingdom of Ani (Անիի թագավորություն) was the central Armenian kingdom of the Bagratuni dynasty, founded in 885 under Ashot I and annexed by Byzantium in 1045.

Kingdom of Ankole

The Kingdom of Ankole was a monarchical state in western Uganda, formed in 1901 and ruled by an Omugabe until the monarchy was abolished in 1967.

Kingdom of Antankarana

The Kingdom of Antankarana was a precolonial monarchy in northern Madagascar, founded in the late seventeenth century as the northernmost branch of the Sakalava dynasty.

Kingdom of Aragon

Kingdom of Aragon (Reino de Aragón): Ebro-valley Christian kingdom; from 1137 dynastic union with Barcelona founded the Crown of Aragon; fueros of 1247, biennial cortes, abolished under Philip V in the early 18th century.

Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia

Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia (Reino de Araucanía y Patagonia), unrecognized 1860 South American state proclaimed by French lawyer Orélie-Antoine de Tounens with Mapuche backing; constitution of 17 November 1860, blue-white-green flag, ended by Chilean occupation; elective royal house continues.

Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)

Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), the ancient Armenian monarchy (Arshakuni under the Arsacids), a contested buffer between Iran and Rome; attested from Bisotun as Armina, ruled by Orontid, Artaxiad, and Arsacid dynasties, Christianized c. 314, partitioned in 387, monarchy abolished 428.

Kingdom of Artsakh

The Kingdom of Artsakh was a medieval Armenian kingdom that functioned as a de-facto independent entity between 1214 and 1261, ruled by Grand Prince Hasan Jalal Vahtangian.

Sep 19, 2026

Kingdom of Arwad

Arwad, also known as Aradus or Ruad, was a Phoenician island city-state about 3 km off the Syrian coast near Tartus, famed for its navy.

Kingdom of Asturias

Kingdom of Asturias, 718–910: first Christian kingdom of post-Visigothic Iberia, founded by Pelayo's revolt and Covadonga, ruled from Oviedo under Alfonso II and Alfonso III, succeeded by the kingdom of Leon in 910.

Sep 23, 2026

Kingdom of Ausan

The Kingdom of Ausan (أوسان), also written Awsan, was an ancient South Arabian kingdom based in Wadi Markha, Yemen, that peaked in the late 8th century BC before being destroyed by Saba.

Kingdom of Badung

The Kingdom of Badung (Kerajaan Badung) was a South Balinese kingdom centered on Denpasar, destroyed in the puputan ritual march into Dutch gunfire in 1906.

Kingdom of Baol

The Kingdom of Baol (Serer: Bawol; Wolof: Bawal) was a precolonial kingdom of central Senegal that emerged from the Wolof Empire's breakup in the mid-16th century.

Kingdom of Bavaria

Kingdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern), Wittelsbach-ruled German monarchy 1806–1918, capital Munich. Elevated from an electorate via alliance with Napoleon on 1 January 1806; after 1871 a partially sovereign German Empire member state under the Reservatrechte until the November 1918 republic.

Kingdom of Beni Abbas

The Kingdom of Beni Abbas (سلطنة بني عباس) was a Kabyle state in what is now Algeria, ruled by the Mokrani from the Kalâa des Beni Abbès citadel.

Kingdom of Benin

Kingdom of Benin, also called the Benin Empire, was an Edo-ruled West African state centered on Benin City, Nigeria, under the Oba, flourishing 13th–19th centuries, famed for the Benin Bronzes, and conquered by Britain in 1897.

Kingdom of Blambangan

Blambangan was the last major Hindu-Javanese kingdom of East Java, controlling the island's eastern salient from the 15th century until its annexation by the Dutch between 1767 and 1770.

Kingdom of Bohemia

Kingdom of Bohemia (České království), medieval and early modern Central European monarchy with capital Prague, a constituent kingdom and first-rank elector of the Holy Roman Empire under the Přemyslid, Luxembourg, Jagiellon, and Habsburg dynasties.

Kingdom of Bolaang Mongondow

The Kingdom of Bolaang Mongondow was a monarchy on the northern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia, self-governing under Dutch rule until it merged into independent Indonesia.

Kingdom of Bonny

The Kingdom of Bonny, also called Ibani or Ubani, was an Igbo-related city-state in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a major slave and later palm-oil port.

Kingdom of Bora Bora

The Kingdom of Bora Bora was an independent Polynesian monarchy in the Leeward Society Islands, annexed by France in 1888; its last queen was deposed in 1895.

Kingdom of Bosnia

Kingdom of Bosnia: medieval Balkan kingdom, independent from 1377 to 1463, ruled by the Kotromanić dynasty under Tvrtko I and successors; ended with the Ottoman conquest of 1463 and the execution of King Stjepan Tomašević.

Kingdom of Brazil

The Kingdom of Brazil (Reino do Brasil) was the status of Brazil from 1815 to 1822, when it formed a united kingdom with Portugal and the Algarves.

Kingdom of Buleleng

The Kingdom of Buleleng was a kingdom in northern Bali, centered on Singaraja, remembered for its resistance to Dutch expansion in the wars of 1846 to 1849.

Kingdom of Bulgaria (Царство България)

The Kingdom of Bulgaria (Царство България), also called the Third Bulgarian Tsardom, was declared an independent kingdom under Ferdinand I in 1908 and ended when a 1946 referendum made Bulgaria a people's republic.

Kingdom of Burgundy

Kingdom of Burgundy, also called kingdom of Arles: medieval kingdom named for the Burgundians, centered between Geneva and Lyons, Frankish from the 530s, imperial from 1032 under Conrad II, later absorbed by France.

Kingdom of Burundi

The Kingdom of Burundi (Ubwami bw'Uburundi) was a monarchy in eastern Africa ruled by the Ganwa dynasty, attested from the 1600s and abolished by a military coup in 1966.