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Kingdom of Iberia (ქართლი)

Kingdom of Iberia, Georgian Kartli (ქართლი), ancient eastern Georgian monarchy centered at Mtskheta; called Iberia by Greco-Roman writers; founded by Pharnavaz, abolished by the Sasanians in the sixth century.

Kingdom of Iceland

Kingdom of Iceland (Konungsríkið Ísland), 1918–1944: sovereign state in personal union with Denmark under King Christian X via the Act of Union; ended by the May 1944 plebiscite and replaced by the Republic of Iceland on 17 June 1944.

Kingdom of Ijaye

The Kingdom of Ijaye was a nineteenth-century Yoruba war state in southwestern Nigeria, founded around 1832 and ruled by the generalissimo Kurunmi until its destruction by Ibadan in 1862.

Kingdom of Illyria

The Kingdom of Illyria (German: Königreich Illyrien) was an administrative unit of the Austrian Empire, created in 1816 from the former Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces and dissolved in 1849 into Carinthia, Carniola, and the Austrian Littoral.

Kingdom of Imereti

The Kingdom of Imereti (იმერეთის სამეფო) was a West Georgian monarchy ruled by the Bagrationi dynasty, with its capital at Kutaisi, until the Russian conquest of 1810.

Kingdom of Imerina

The Kingdom of Imerina (Fanjakana Merina) was a Malagasy kingdom in Madagascar's central highlands, centered on Antananarivo, reunited under Andrianampoinimerina and expanded by Radama I into an empire over most of the island.

Kingdom of Inderapura

The Kingdom of Inderapura was a Malay kingdom on the southern west coast of Sumatra, in present-day West Sumatra, Indonesia, which grew rich on the pepper trade between the Minangkabau interior and the Indian Ocean.

Kingdom of Iraq (المملكة العراقية)

Kingdom of Iraq (المملكة العراقية), the Hashemite constitutional monarchy created under the British mandate with Faisal I enthroned in August 1921, independent 1932, ruled by Faisal I, Ghazi, and Faisal II, overthrown by the July 1958 coup that founded the republic.

Kingdom of Ireland

Kingdom of Ireland: state created 1541 when Henry VIII's title changed from Lord of Ireland to King of Ireland via the Crown of Ireland Act 1542; in personal union with England and Great Britain, governed under Poynings' Law until 1782, ended by the 1800 Act of Union.

Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)

United Monarchy of Israel: the biblical tenth-century BCE kingdom of Saul, David, and Solomon, whose historicity is debated through Iron IIA chronology, Finkelstein's Low Chronology versus Mazar's Modified Conventional Chronology, the Tel Dan Stele, and Khirbet Qeiyafa.

Kingdom of Israel (ממלכת ישראל) (Samaria)

Kingdom of Israel (ממלכת ישראל), the Northern Kingdom or Kingdom of Samaria: ancient Israelite monarchy, seceded from Rehoboam c. 931–922 BCE, capitals Shechem, Tirzah, Samaria, destroyed by Assyria in 722 BCE.

Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia), the Savoy-ruled state proclaimed 17 March 1861 from Piedmont-Sardinia and ended by the June 1946 referendum (54.3% republican), spanning the liberal Statuto Albertino era, colonial empire, Fascism, and World War II.

Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)

The Kingdom of Italy (regnum Italicum) was the northern-and-central Italian constituent kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire, created by Charlemagne's 774 conquest of the Lombards, joined to the German crown by Otto I, and gradually overtaken by autonomous communes.

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia), Napoleonic satellite state in northern Italy, 17 March 1805 to 20 April 1814; Napoleon crowned king with the Iron Crown in Milan; comprised Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, expanded to 25 departments, ended with the 1814 Milan riot.

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Kingdom of Jerusalem (Regnum Hierosolymitanum), Crusader state founded in 1099 after the First Crusade under Godfrey of Bouillon and King Baldwin I, ruled until the fall of Acre in 1291; shattered at Hattin in 1187 by Saladin, revived with capital at Acre, known for the Assizes of Jerusalem.

Kingdom of Jimma

The Kingdom of Jimma, also called Jimma Abba Jifar, was an Oromo monarchy in the Gibe region of southwestern Ethiopia, the largest of five Gibe kingdoms, founded about 1830.

Kingdom of Judah (ממלכת יהודה)

Kingdom of Judah (ממלכת יהודה), also called the Judahite kingdom, was an Iron Age southern Levant state centered on Jerusalem, ending with the Babylonian destruction of 586 BCE; known from the Bible, archaeology, and inscriptions.

Kingdom of Kaarta

The Kingdom of Kaarta was a Bambara state in the western Sudan, an offshoot of Segou destroyed by Umar Tall's jihad and occupied by the French around 1890.

Kingdom of Kaffa

The Kingdom of Kaffa was a kingdom in the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia, ruled by a king titled Tato from about 1390 until Emperor Menilek's conquest in 1897.

Kingdom of Kakheti

The Kingdom of Kakheti was a monarchy in eastern Georgia ruled by the Bagrationi dynasty from the 1460s until 1762, when it united with Kartli to form Kartli-Kakheti.

Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti

The Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (Georgian: კახეთ-ჰერეთის სამეფო) was a medieval monarchy in eastern Georgia and northwestern Azerbaijan, formed in 1014 under King Kvirike III and annexed to Georgia in 1104.

Kingdom of Kambata

The Kingdom of Kambata, also written Cambat, was a pre-16th-century polity in south-western Ethiopia between the Bilate and Omo rivers, annexed by the Abyssinian Empire in the 15th century.

Kingdom of Kandy (මහනුවර රාජධානිය)

The Kingdom of Kandy (මහනුවර රාජධානිය), also called the Kandyan Kingdom, was an independent monarchy in the interior highlands of Sri Lanka until it fell to the British in 1815.

Kingdom of Kano

The Kingdom of Kano was a Hausa state, one of the original seven, traditionally founded in 999 and flourishing under Muhammad Rumfa before falling to the Fulani jihad in 1807.

Kingdom of Karagwe

The Kingdom of Karagwe (Ubwami bwa Karagwe) was a kingdom in northwest Tanzania, west of Lake Victoria, ruled by the Hinda clan from about 1450 until German conquest in 1915.

Kingdom of Karangasem

The Kingdom of Karangasem was a Balinese kingdom based in eastern Bali, founded in 1611, that controlled Bali and Lombok until the Dutch conquest of 1894.

Kingdom of Kars

The Kingdom of Kars (Կարսի թագավորություն), also called the Kingdom of Vanand, was a medieval Armenian kingdom of the Bagratuni dynasty, centered on Kars from about 963 to 1065.

Kingdom of Kartli

The Kingdom of Kartli was a Bagrationi-ruled Christian kingdom in eastern Georgia, centered on Tbilisi, that emerged around 1478 from the fragmentation of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia.

Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti

Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was an eastern Georgian monarchy that existed from 1762 to 1801, formed when King Erekle II united Kartli and Kakheti, with its capital at Tbilisi.