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Kingdom of Kent
Kingdom of Kent (Cantwara), early Anglo-Saxon kingdom in southeastern England, c. 450–825. Distinctive for joint kingship by pairs of kings, Frankish trade ties, Æthelberht's 597 conversion via Augustine, and absorption into Wessex after 825.
Kingdom of Kerma
The Kingdom of Kerma, called Kush in Egyptian records, was an ancient kingdom in Upper Nubia centered on the city of Kerma, existing from about 2500 BC.
Kingdom of Ketu
The Kingdom of Ketu was a Yoruba state in western Yorubaland, ruled by the Alaketu from a line tracing to Ife, destroyed by Dahomey in 1886.
Kingdom of Khotan
Kingdom of Khotan (Yutian), a Buddhist oasis kingdom on the southern Silk Road in the Tarim Basin, ruled by Iranian-speaking Saka dynasts; famous for jade and silk, conquered by the Qara-khanids around 1000 CE.
Kingdom of Kinda
The Kingdom of Kinda (كِنْدَة) was a tribal kingdom of central Arabia prominent in the 5th and 6th centuries, reaching its height under King al-Harith ibn Amr.
Kingdom of Klungkung
The Kingdom of Klungkung (Kerajaan Klungkung) was a Balinese kingdom founded in 1686, the last independent kingdom in Bali until its fall to the Dutch in 1908.
Kingdom of Kongo
Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo dia Ntotila), west-central African state in modern Angola and DR Congo, flourishing c. 1400–1700; Christianized from 1491, weakened by civil wars and the Atlantic slave trade, annexed by Portugal in the 19th century.
Kingdom of Kooki
Kooki, officially Obwakamuswaga bwa Kooki, is a pre-colonial principality in Rakai District, south-western Uganda, founded around 1720 and incorporated into Buganda as a county in 1896.
Kingdom of Kuku
The Kingdom of Kuku (مملكة كوكو), also rendered Kingdom of Koukou, was a Kabyle polity founded in 1511 in the Djurdjura mountains of northern Algeria during the Ottoman period.
Kingdom of Kush
The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Kingdom, was an ancient African state in Nubia, in present-day Sudan, which at its height ruled Egypt.
Kingdom of Lan Xang
The Kingdom of Lan Xang (ອານາຈັກລ້ານຊ້າງ), meaning a million elephants, was the first unified Lao state, founded in 1353 by Fa Ngum and later split into Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak.
Kingdom of Laos
Kingdom of Laos: monarchy under the 1947 constitution, also called Royal Lao Government state; Cold War battleground among royalists, neutralists, and Pathet Lao; neutralized at Geneva 1962; monarchy abolished 2 December 1975.
Kingdom of Larantuka
The Kingdom of Larantuka (Reino de Larantuca) was a Catholic monarchy at the eastern tip of Flores, Indonesia, remembered as the first and longest-lasting Catholic kingdom in the archipelago.
Kingdom of Lazica
The Kingdom of Lazica, called Egrisi (ეგრისი) in Georgian sources, was a state on the eastern Black Sea coast in western Georgia from the 2nd to the 8th century.
Kingdom of León
Kingdom of León (Reino de León), a Christian Iberian kingdom formed from Asturias in 910 with its seat at León, ruled Galicia, Castile and Portugal's county, and united with Castile in 1230; its 1188 Cortes pioneered burgher representation.
Kingdom of Liang
The Kingdom of Liang (梁国) was a Han dynasty princely kingdom created in 202 BC from the commandery of Dang, seated at Dingtao in modern Shandong.
Kingdom of Libya (المملكة الليبية)
The Kingdom of Libya (المملكة الليبية), or United Kingdom of Libya, was the Sanusi monarchy under King Idris from independence on 24 December 1951 until the 1 September 1969 Gaddafi coup; federal until a 1963 unitary revision, transformed by the 1959 oil discovery.
Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea
The Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea was a Gibe Oromo monarchical state in the Gibe River valley of southwestern Ethiopia, founded around 1800 and annexed by Emperor Menelik II in 1891.
Kingdom of Lithuania (1918)
The Kingdom of Lithuania (Lietuvos Karalystė) was the monarchical form of the Lithuanian state proclaimed in 1918, when the Council of Lithuania elected Duke Wilhelm Karl von Urach as King Mindaugas II.
Kingdom of Loango
The Kingdom of Loango (BuLoongo) was a West Central African state on the Atlantic coast north of the Congo River, ruled by a king titled the Maloango.
Kingdom of Loathing
Kingdom of Loathing (KoL) is a free, comedic browser-based stick-figure RPG by Asymmetric Publications, launched publicly February 11, 2003 by Zack "Jick" Johnson, with six pun-named classes, daily adventure limits, Meat currency, clans, and the spinoff West of Loathing.
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Regno Lombardo-Veneto), an Austrian crown kingdom established at the Congress of Vienna on 7 April 1815 from Milan, Mantua, and Venetian Terraferma, ruled via the Milanese and Venetian governments until the 1859 Peace of Zurich and the final loss of Veneto in 1866.
Kingdom of Lori
The Kingdom of Lori, also called the Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget or Kyurikian kingdom, was a medieval Armenian kingdom in northern Armenia absorbed by Georgia in 1118.
Kingdom of Luang Prabang
The Kingdom of Luang Prabang (ອານາຈັກຫຼວງພະບາງ) was a northern Lao kingdom founded in 1707 from the split of Lan Xang, becoming a French protectorate in 1893.
Kingdom of Luba
The Kingdom of Luba (Builuba) was a centralized African state in what is now the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, founded by Kongolo around Lake Boya.
Kingdom of Makuria
The Kingdom of Makuria, known to Arab traders as al-Muqurra, was a Christian Nubian kingdom centered on Dongola that emerged in the sixth century and lasted until 1365/6.
Kingdom of Mangareva
The Kingdom of Mangareva was a Polynesian monarchy in the Gambier Islands of southeastern French Polynesia, established in 1836 when King Maputeoa converted to Catholicism and lasting until French annexation in 1881.
Kingdom of Manyika
The Kingdom of Manyika was a Shona polity in the Eastern Highlands of what is now eastern Zimbabwe, extending into central Mozambique, ruled by kings known as Chikanga.
Kingdom of Mapungubwe
Kingdom of Mapungubwe: first indigenous state in southern Africa, c. AD 900–1320, at the Shashe–Limpopo confluence. Hilltop capital, gold rhinoceros, Indian Ocean trade, predecessor of Great Zimbabwe, UNESCO site since 2003.
Kingdom of Matamba
The Kingdom of Matamba was a historical African kingdom on the Cuango River in present-day Angola, best known as the main base of Queen Njinga Mbande in her long war with Portugal.