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Kingdom of Maynila

Maynila was a sixteenth-century Muslim kingdom at the mouth of the Pasig River on Luzon, ruled by Rajah Sulayman and Rajah Matanda until Spain conquered it in 1571.

Kingdom of Mbire

The Kingdom of Mbire was a Shona clan and polity on the Zimbabwean plateau whose ruler Nyatsimba Mutota founded the Mutapa kingdom around 1450, reportedly in search of salt.

Kingdom of Mengwi

The Kingdom of Mengwi was a kingdom in southern Bali, between Badung and Tabanan, founded in 1723 by the Gusti Agung line and conquered by Badung in 1891.

Kingdom of Montenegro

Kingdom of Montenegro (Kraljevina Crna Gora), South Slav kingdom proclaimed 28 August 1910 under King Nikola I of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty; ended 26 November 1918 when the Podgorica Assembly deposed the king and unified Montenegro with Serbia.

Kingdom of Mpororo

The Kingdom of Mpororo was a short-lived pre-colonial state in the Great Lakes region, appearing around the end of the 17th century in what is now south-western Uganda.

Kingdom of Mysore (ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ)

The Kingdom of Mysore, also known as Mysore kingdom, was a state in southwestern India founded in 1399. It was a major military power in the 18th century.

Kingdom of Naples

Kingdom of Naples: mainland southern Italian realm, also Regnum Siciliae citra Pharum, ruled from Naples 1266–1860 under Angevins, Aragonese Trastámaras, Spanish viceroys, and Bourbons, ending in the Two Sicilies and Italian unification.

Kingdom of Navarre

Kingdom of Navarre (Reino de Navarra): Pyrenean kingdom formed as the Kingdom of Pamplona in the ninth century, conquered by Castile in 1512, a foral province from 1841, now a Spanish foral community.

Kingdom of Ndongo

The Kingdom of Ndongo was an Mbundu monarchy in what is now Angola, ruled by kings titled ngola, whose queen Njinga Mbande resisted Portuguese conquest before the kingdom fell in 1671.

Kingdom of Ndorwa

The Kingdom of Ndorwa was a precolonial kingdom in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, centered in northeastern Rwanda and ruled by the Abashambo dynasty.

Kingdom of Nekor

The Kingdom of Nekor, also called the Emirate of Nekor, was a Muslim principality in the Rif mountains of northern Morocco, founded around 710 and ruled for three centuries.

Kingdom of Nepal (नेपाल अधिराज्य)

Kingdom of Nepal (नेपाल अधिराज्य), the Shah-dynasty Hindu monarchy unified by Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha, ruled through Rana and Panchayat eras, became a 1990 constitutional monarchy, and was abolished 28 May 2008.

Kingdom of Ngonde

The Kingdom of Ngonde was a lakeshore state at the northern end of Lake Malawi, ruled by paramount chiefs titled Kyungu from around 1600 until British rule in the 1890s.

Kingdom of Nobatia

The Kingdom of Nobatia (Ⲛⲟⲩⲃⲁⲇⲓⲁ) was a medieval Nubian kingdom in Lower Nubia, from the First to the Third Cataract of the Nile, Christianized in the sixth century.

Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)

Kingdom of Norway (872–1397): medieval Norwegian realm from Harald Fairhair's Hafrsfjord victory (traditionally 872) to the 1397 Kalmar Union under Erik of Pomerania; marked by the 1274 Magnus Code, Bergen's Hanseatic kontor, and the 1349 Black Death.

Kingdom of Nri

The Kingdom of Nri, also known as Odinala of Nri, was an Igbo ritual kingdom centered at Nri in the Anambra valley, whose priest-king ruled through spiritual authority until 1911.

Kingdom of Odoacer

Kingdom of Odoacer: the Kingdom of Italy (476–493) founded when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus; ruled as Zeno's nominal vicar with Roman administration, ended by Theodoric's conquest and Odoacer's murder in 493.

Kingdom of Osroene

The Kingdom of Osroene (مملكة الرها) was an Aramaic-speaking kingdom centered on Edessa in northern Mesopotamia, founded around 132 BC and ruled by the Abgarid dynasty.

Kingdom of Ouagadougou

The Kingdom of Ouagadougou, called Wogodogo in Mooré, was a Mossi kingdom in what is now Burkina Faso, ruled by the Mogho Naba until the French conquest of 1896.

Kingdom of Oudong

The Kingdom of Oudong (នគរឧដុង្គ) was the Cambodian kingdom whose capital stood at Oudong, northwest of Phnom Penh, from 1618 until the French protectorate ended it in 1863.

Kingdom of Persis

The Kingdom of Persis was a vassal kingdom in southwestern Iran under Parthian rule, ended when Ardashir I founded the Sasanian Empire in 224 CE.

Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)

Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie, Regency Kingdom): puppet monarchy created by Germany and Austria-Hungary by the Act of 5 November 1916 on occupied Congress Poland, governed by a Regency Council from 1917, declared independence 7 October 1918, dissolved 14 November 1918 under Piłsudski.

Kingdom of Pontus

The Kingdom of Pontus, or Pontic Kingdom, was a Hellenistic monarchy on the southern Black Sea coast, ruled by the Mithridatid dynasty until Rome destroyed it in 63 BCE.

Kingdom of Porto-Novo

The Kingdom of Porto-Novo, known to its Gun rulers as Hogbonu, was a small West African monarchy in what is now Benin, founded around 1730.

Kingdom of Portugal

Kingdom of Portugal (Reino de Portugal), the Iberian monarchy founded by Afonso Henriques in the 12th century (1143) and lasting until the Republic was proclaimed on 5 October 1910, spanning the discoveries, the Iberian Union, and constitutional monarchy.

Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen), also Brandenburg-Prussia or Borussia: Hohenzollern monarchy 1701–1918, King "in" Prussia until 1772, largest German Empire state, dissolved by the Allies in 1947.

Kingdom of Qataban

The Kingdom of Qataban (قتبان) was an ancient South Arabian kingdom centered in Wadi Bayhan, Yemen, with its capital at Tamna, flourishing from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.

Kingdom of Qocho

The Kingdom of Qocho (高昌回鶻), also called the Gaochang Uyghur khaganate, was a Uyghur kingdom founded in 866, centered at Xizhou (Turfan) and Beiting in the eastern Tianshan region.

Kingdom of Quiteve

The Kingdom of Quiteve, also called Uteve, was a Shona-speaking kingdom in central Mozambique between the Pungwe and Buzi rivers, thriving on the Sofala ivory trade.

Kingdom of Raiatea

The Kingdom of Raiatea was a 19th-century Polynesian kingdom in the Leeward Islands of the Society Islands, ruled by the Tamatoa dynasty until France proclaimed its annexation in 1888.