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Kingdom of Gaochang (Qocho)

The Kingdom of Gaochang (高昌國) was an oasis state in the Turfan area of Xinjiang, thirteen days' travel from Dunhuang, where the Rouran installed Kan Bozhou as king.

Kingdom of Georgia (საქართველოს სამეფო)

Kingdom of Georgia (საქართველოს სამეფო), medieval Bagratid monarchy united in 1008 under Bagrat III; golden age under David IV the Builder and Queen Tamar; greatest extent under Giorgi IV Lasha; declined after Mongol invasions of the 1220s–1236 and was annexed by Russia in 1801.

Kingdom of Gera

The Kingdom of Gera, one of the five Oromo Gibe kingdoms, was founded in southwestern Ethiopia around 1835 by the warrior Tullu Gunji and conquered in 1887.

Kingdom of Germany

Kingdom of Germany: the medieval kingdom arising from East Francia after the 843 Treaty of Verdun, ruled by elective kings crowned at Aachen, whose king Otto I became Holy Roman Emperor in 962.

Kingdom of Giants

Kingdom of Giants (KOG) is an American melodic metalcore sextet formed 2011 in Sacramento, California; albums Every Wave of Sound, Ground Culture, All the Hell You've Got to Spare, Passenger, and the upcoming 2026 Usurper, with vocalist Dana Willax.

Kingdom of Gianyar

The Kingdom of Gianyar was a Balinese kingdom, one of nine that emerged after Gelgel's collapse, ruled by the Dewa Manggis dynasty until accepting Dutch protection in 1900.

Kingdom of Gisaka

The Kingdom of Gisaka was a precolonial kingdom in eastern Rwanda near Lake Muhazi, whose kings bore the dynastic name Kimenyi before Rwanda annexed it in the mid-nineteenth century.

Kingdom of God (βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ) (Christianity)

The Kingdom of God, also called Kingdom of Christ (βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ), is the central subject of Jesus' proclamation in the Synoptic Gospels, denoting God's kingly rule.

Kingdom of Gomma

The Kingdom of Gomma was one of the five Oromo Gibe states of southwestern Ethiopia, remembered as the first where Islam became the religion of the whole people.

Kingdom of Great Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain: sovereign state formed 1 May 1707 by the union of England and Scotland under a single Parliament of Great Britain at Westminster; lasted until the 1801 union with Ireland created the United Kingdom.

Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειον της Ελλάδος)

Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος), the monarchical Greek state of 1832–1924 and 1935–1973 under Kings Otto, George I, and Constantine II, ending with the 69.18% republican vote of the December 1974 referendum.

Kingdom of Guangling

The Kingdom of Guangling (广陵国) was a Han dynasty princely kingdom centered on Guangling, modern Yangzhou in Jiangsu, created and abolished several times between the Western and Eastern Han.

Kingdom of Gumma

The Kingdom of Gumma, also written Guumaa or Guma, was one of the five Oromo Gibe kingdoms in southwestern Ethiopia, an Islamic state conquered by Menelik's forces in the 1880s.

Kingdom of Gwynedd

Kingdom of Gwynedd, medieval Welsh kingdom in north Wales, one of the three great polities with Powys and Deheubarth; heartland west of the Conwy; ruled Wales under Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales 1267, until the Edwardian conquest of 1282-83.

Kingdom of Hadhramaut

The Kingdom of Hadhramaut (مملكة حضرموت) was an ancient South Arabian state in Yemen, centered on its capital Shabwah and known for dominating the frankincense trade.

Kingdom of Haiti

The Kingdom of Haiti, also called the Kingdom of Hayti, was the northern Haitian state ruled by King Henri Christophe, crowned in 1811, until his suicide in 1820.

Kingdom of Han (Hanzhong)

The Kingdom of Han was an early Han dynasty kingdom with its capital at Nanzheng, covering Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong, and exemplifying the restored feudal enfeoffment after Qin abolished it.

Kingdom of Ḫana

The Kingdom of Ḫana, also written Khana, was a Syrian kingdom of the second millennium BC centered on Terqa in the Middle Euphrates region, arising after the fall of Mari.

Kingdom of Hanover

Kingdom of Hanover (Königreich Hannover): north German kingdom 1814–1866, in personal union with Great Britain 1714–1837 under George I to William IV, separated by Salic law in favor of Ernest Augustus I, and annexed by Prussia in 1866.

Kingdom of Hatra

The Kingdom of Hatra (مملكة الحضر) was a small Arab caravan kingdom of the Parthian period in northern Mesopotamia, conquered by the Sasanians in 240-41.

Kingdom of Heaven (film)

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) is Ridley Scott's Crusades epic starring Orlando Bloom as Balian of Ibelin, with Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, and Ghassan Massoud as Saladin; its Director's Cut is far better regarded than the 39%-scored theatrical release.

Kingdom of Hejaz

Kingdom of Hejaz: Arab monarchy founded by Sharif Hussein bin Ali in 1916 after the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule; recognized by Britain, France, and Italy, League member from 1920, ended by the Saudi conquest of 1924–1925 and absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1932.

Kingdom of Hejian

The Kingdom of Hejian (河间国) was a princely fief of the Jin dynasty held by the imperial clansman Sima Yong, abolished after he was strangled in the early 300s.

Kingdom of Hereti

The Kingdom of Hereti (Georgian: ჰერეთის სამეფო) was a medieval Georgian feudal monarchy founded by Hamam on the Iberian-Albanian frontier until it was annexed in the 1020s.

Kingdom of Holland

Kingdom of Holland (Koninkrijk Holland), Napoleonic client state 1806-1810 under Louis Bonaparte, created by Napoleon from the Batavian Republic and annexed to France on 9 July 1810.

Kingdom of Huahine

The Kingdom of Huahine was a Polynesian kingdom located in the Society Islands, ruled by the Teurura'i dynasty from 1852 until its annexation by France in 1895.

Kingdom of Huainan

The Kingdom of Huainan (淮南国) was a kingdom of China's Western Han dynasty, best known under King Liu An, whose court compiled the Huainanzi around 139 BC.

Kingdom of Hueda

Whydah (Hueda) was a West African kingdom on the Slave Coast, in present-day Benin, that flourished from the late seventeenth century until its conquest by Dahomey in 1727.

Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)

Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867): the Habsburg-ruled Hungarian kingdom after Mohács, spanning tripartition, Royal Hungary, liberation, neo-absolutism, and the 1867 Compromise creating Austria-Hungary.

Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)

Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Magyar Királyság, the regency-era Hungarian state after Trianon: a kingdom with a vacant throne governed by Regent Miklós Horthy, an Axis ally occupied by Germany in 1944, ending with the Second Hungarian Republic.