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Kingdom of Cambodia under Norodom (to 1863)

The Kingdom of Cambodia under Norodom (នគរកម្ពុជាក្រោមរាជ្យនរោត្តម) was ruled by King Norodom from 1860 to 1904, with its capital at Oudong and later Phnom Penh.

Kingdom of Castile

Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla, Regnum Castellae), medieval Iberian kingdom from a 9th-century Leonese frontier county; united with León permanently in 1230 as the Crown of Castile, dominant in Spain by 1492.

Kingdom of Champasak

The Kingdom of Champasak (ອານາຈັກຈຳປາສັກ) was a Lao monarchy founded in 1713 in southern Laos, independent until 1778, then a Siamese vassal under French rule from 1893.

Sep 23, 2026

Kingdom of Changyi

The Kingdom of Changyi (昌邑国) was a Western Han princely kingdom created in 97 BC for Liu Bo, whose son Liu He was briefly emperor.

Kingdom of Cochin

Kingdom of Cochin (Perumbadappu Swaroopam), a princely state on Kerala's Malabar Coast ruled from Kochi; under Portuguese (1503-1663), Dutch (1663-1795), Mysore, then British suzerainty; first princely state to join the Indian Union in 1947, merged into Kerala in 1956.

Sep 23, 2026

Kingdom of Commagene

The Kingdom of Commagene (Βασίλειο της Κομμαγηνής) was a Hellenistic kingdom in south-central Turkey, founded around 163 BC by the Seleucid governor Ptolemaeus and lasting until AD 72.

Kingdom of Croatia (medieval)

The Kingdom of Croatia (Kraljevina Hrvatska) was a medieval monarchy in the western Balkans, crowned under Tomislav in 925 and peaking in the 11th century.

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; Horvát-Szlavón Királyság), autonomous kingdom in Hungarian Transleithania, 1868-1918, created by the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement (Nagodba), with its own diet, ban, and Croatian official language, ending with Austria-Hungary's collapse in 1918.

Kingdom of Cusco

The Kingdom of Cusco (Reino del Cusco) was the early Inca state centered on the city of Cusco, traditionally founded by Manco Cápac and made an empire by Pachacuti after 1438.

Kingdom of Cyprus

Kingdom of Cyprus: crusader kingdom founded 1192 after Richard I's conquest and transfer to Guy of Lusignan; ruled by the Lusignan dynasty 1192–1489, then Venice until the Ottoman conquest of 1570–1.

Kingdom of Dagbon

The Kingdom of Dagbon (Dagbaŋ) is a traditional kingdom in northern Ghana founded by the Dagomba people in the 15th century and ruled by a paramount king, the Yaa Naa, from Yendi.

Kingdom of Dalmatia

The Kingdom of Dalmatia (Croatian: Kraljevina Dalmacija) was a crown land of the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary, covering the eastern Adriatic coast with its capital at Zadar.

Kingdom of Damot

The Kingdom of Damot was a wealthy state south of the Blue Nile that dominated the Ethiopian highlands from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century.

Kingdom of Desmond

Kingdom of Desmond (Desmomhal, south Munster): Gaelic kingdom in Cork and Kerry ruled by the MacCarthy dynasty from 1045 until Donal IX MacCarthy Mór died in 1596, alongside the rival FitzGerald earldom of Desmond.

Sep 23, 2026

Kingdom of Donghai

The Kingdom of Donghai (东海国) was a princely kingdom of China's Jin dynasty, based in the Donghai commandery of Xuzhou in present-day Shandong, whose kings were tied to the imperial succession.

Kingdom of Dreams

Kingdom of Dreams (किंगडम ऑफ ड्रीम्स) was a live-entertainment complex in Sector 29, Gurugram, opened 2010, home of the musicals Zangoora and Jhumroo; sealed since July 2022 over unpaid lease dues, distinct from same-named companies elsewhere.

Kingdom of East Anglia

Kingdom of East Anglia (East Angles), an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. Reached its height under Rædwald, bretwalda, likely the Sutton Hoo ship burial; ended under Danish rule and Wessex absorption.

Kingdom of Egypt (المملكة المصرية)

Kingdom of Egypt (المملكة المصرية), 1922–1953: constitutional monarchy under the 1923 constitution after four-reservation independence from Britain; triangular politics of king, Wafd, Britain; ended by 1952 Free Officers revolution.

Kingdom of England

Kingdom of England: sovereign state from Anglo-Saxon unification until 1 May 1707, when union with Scotland under the Treaty of Union created Great Britain; also known as the English realm, ending with the Acts of Union.

Kingdom of Ennarea

The Kingdom of Ennarea, also spelled Ennarya, was a kingdom in the Gibe region of western Ethiopia whose gold reached Egypt, Greece, and Rome, until Oromo conquest around 1710.

Kingdom of Epirus

The Kingdom of Epirus was the monarchy of the Molossians in mountainous northwestern Greece, whose Aeacid kings included Pyrrhus, who fought Rome in Italy between 280 and 275 BCE.

Kingdom of Essex

Kingdom of Essex (East Seaxe), an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy kingdom of the East Saxons north of the Thames. Founded 6th century, first king Æscwine (527); Christianized in the 650s; under Mercia then Wessex; governed by ealdormen after 825.

Kingdom of Fazughli

The Kingdom of Fazughli was a polity in the Ethiopian-Sudanese borderland on the upper Blue Nile, remembered as a possible refuge of Christian Alodia and a Funj tributary rich in gold.

Kingdom of Fear (song)

"Kingdom of Fear" is a 2026 folk-rock/alternative country single by Canadian singer-songwriter Cameron Whitcomb, from the EP Deep Water on Atlantic Outpost, alluding to Hunter S. Thompson's 2003 memoir.

Kingdom of Finland (1918)

Kingdom of Finland (1918): the short-lived monarchy of independent Finland, Suomen kuningaskunta, under king-elect Frederick Charles of Hesse, elected 9 October 1918 by 64-41, renounced in December 1918 after Germany's defeat, replaced by the 1919 republic.