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Kingdom of Rapa Nui
The Kingdom of Rapa Nui was the hereditary Polynesian monarchy of Easter Island, ruled by the sacred ariki mau until Chile annexed the island through the 1888 Agreement of Wills.
Kingdom of Rohilkhand
Kingdom of Rohilkhand: eighteenth-century Afghan (Rohilla) state in Katehar, north-west of Awadh, Uttar Pradesh; ruled by a confederacy under Hafiz Rahmat Khan, defeated by Awadh and the East India Company in 1774, ceded to the British in 1801.
Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Europe from 1881 to 1947, expanding into Greater Romania in 1918 before becoming a people's republic.
Kingdom of Rurutu
The Kingdom of Rurutu was a Polynesian monarchy on the island of Rurutu in the Austral Islands, founded by King Teauroa and placed under a French protectorate in 1889.
Kingdom of Rwanda
The Kingdom of Rwanda (Ubwami bw'u Rwanda) was the monarchy of the interlacustrine highlands of central Africa, ruled by the Nyiginya dynasty until its abolition by referendum in 1961.
Kingdom of Saloum
The Kingdom of Saloum (Saalum in Serer) was a precolonial kingdom in western Senegal ruled by kings titled Maad Saloum, from the fifteenth century until the monarchy's abolition in 1969.
Kingdom of Samoa
The Kingdom of Samoa was an independent state created in 1889, governed by a Supreme Court, until the Tripartite Convention ended its sovereignty in 1899.
Kingdom of Sarawak
The Kingdom of Sarawak was an independent state on the northwestern coast of Borneo, founded in 1841 when James Brooke was granted authority by the Sultanate of Brunei.
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of Sardinia (Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae): papal fief created by Boniface VIII in 1297 for James II of Aragon, conquered from 1323, ruled by Savoy from 1720, nucleus of Italy 1861.
Kingdom of Saxony
Kingdom of Saxony (Königreich Sachsen) was a Wettin-ruled German state from 1806 to 1918, headquartered in Dresden, known for its heavy industry and territorial shifts.
Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland, also called Alba (Gaelic), the sovereign Scottish state from Kenneth MacAlpin's c. 843 union of Picts and Scots until the 1707 Acts of Union with England; parliament from 1235, Wars of Independence, Union of Crowns 1603.
Kingdom of Semien
The Kingdom of Semien was an autonomous polity of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) in the Semien Mountains of northern Ethiopia, from the fourteenth century to the 1620s.
Kingdom of Serbia (Краљевина Србија)
Kingdom of Serbia (Краљевина Србија), Balkan state 1882–1918, proclaimed from the Principality of Serbia on 6 March 1882 under Milan Obrenović; doubled territory in the Balkan Wars 1912–13 and became the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 December 1918.
Kingdom of Shanshan
The Kingdom of Shanshan (鄯善国) was an oasis kingdom on the southern Tarim Basin around Lop Nur, in present-day Xinjiang, described by Han histories as a renamed Loulan.
Kingdom of Shewa
The Kingdom of Shewa, also romanized Shoa, was an autonomous kingdom in Ethiopia, ruled from the late 1600s until 1889, when its king Menilek became emperor.
Kingdom of Sicily
Kingdom of Sicily (Regno di Sicilia), monarchy founded 1130 by Roger II, covering Sicily and southern Italy; ruled by Normans, Hohenstaufen, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons until the 1816 Two Sicilies union.
Kingdom of Sikkim
Kingdom of Sikkim (Denjong), Himalayan Buddhist monarchy under the Namgyal dynasty, 1642–1975, ruled by Chogyals; British protectorate 1861, Indian state 16 May 1975 after referendum.
Kingdom of Sine
The Kingdom of Sine was a precolonial Serer kingdom on the north bank of the Saloum River delta in present-day Senegal, ruled by Maad a Sinig kings until 1969.
Kingdom of Singapura
The Kingdom of Singapura was a 14th-century port polity on Temasek, traditionally founded around 1299 by prince Sang Nila Utama, whose descendants ruled until the founding of Malacca.
Kingdom of Slavonia
The Kingdom of Slavonia (Regnum Sclavoniae) was a medieval administrative unit within the Hungarian-Croatian state, formed in the mid-13th century between the Drava and Sava rivers.
Kingdom of Soissons
Kingdom of Soissons, also Domain of Syagrius: a Gallo-Roman rump state in northern Gaul under Aegidius and Syagrius, defeated by Clovis at Soissons in 486; its existence as a kingdom is debated.
Kingdom of Soppeng
The Kingdom of Soppeng (Arajanna Soppeng) was a Bugis kingdom in inland South Sulawesi, Indonesia, party to the Tellumpoccoe alliance with Bone and Wajo, and conquered by Gowa-Tallo.
Kingdom of Strathclyde
Kingdom of Strathclyde, also called Cumbria, a Brittonic kingdom based on Dumbarton Rock and the Clyde valley; expanded south to the Solway in the early tenth century, was a Dublin Viking satellite from 871, and was absorbed by Alba in the mid-eleventh century.
Kingdom of Syrmia
The Kingdom of Syrmia, also called the Realm of Stefan Dragutin, was a medieval Serbian state ruled by Stefan Dragutin and his son from 1282 to 1325.
Kingdom of Syunik
The Kingdom of Syunik (Սյունիքի թագավորություն) was a medieval Armenian kingdom that flourished between the 10th and 12th centuries before falling to Turkmen raids in 1166.
Kingdom of Tado
The Tado Kingdom was a precolonial Aja polity centered on Tado in the Mono River valley between Togo and Benin, a traditional origin point for many Gulf of Guinea kingdoms.
Kingdom of Tahiti
The Kingdom of Tahiti was a Polynesian state on Tahiti and nearby islands, ruled by the Pomare dynasty until Pomare V ceded it to France in 1880.
Kingdom of the Hurutshe
The Kingdom of the Hurutshe, also spelled Bahurutshe, was a Tswana-speaking chiefdom of the Marico river valley, dominant among the western Tswana in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Kingdom of the Iberians
The Kingdom of the Iberians, also known as Tao-Klarjeti, was an early medieval Georgian kingdom ruled by the Bagrationi dynasty from about 888 to 1008.
Kingdom of the Isles
Kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar/Sodor): medieval Norse-Gaelic maritime realm covering the Hebrides and Isle of Man, 1079–1266, founded by Godred Crovan, divided in 1156 between Godred Olafsson and Somerled, ended by the Treaty of Perth.