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Principality
Principality: a territory headed by a prince, princess, or Fürst rather than a king or president; also the medieval historian's term for regional non-royal polities. Monaco and Liechtenstein are surviving sovereign examples.
Principality of Abkhazia
Principality of Abkhazia: feudal Black Sea principality under the Sharvashidze (Chachba) dynasty from the late 15th century, Ottoman dependency from the 16th century, Russian protectorate 1810, abolished 1864.
Principality of Achaea
The Principality of Achaea, also called the Principality of Morea, was a crusader state in the Peloponnese of southern Greece, founded in 1205 after the Fourth Crusade.
Principality of Albania
The Principality of Albania (Principata e Shqipërisë) was the first internationally recognized Albanian state, created by the Great Powers in 1913 and dissolved in 1925.
Principality of Antioch
The Principality of Antioch was a crusader state founded after the First Crusade, centered on the city of Antioch in northern Syria and ruled by a Frankish prince.
Principality of Arbanon
The Principality of Arbanon was a medieval state in central Albania, established by Progon around 1190 and regarded as the first Albanian state in recorded history.
Principality of Armenia
The Principality of Armenia (Hayastani ishxanutyun) was an autonomous Armenian principality tributary to the Arab Caliphate from 652 to 884, dominated by the Bagratuni family.
Principality of Beiping (Wang Chuzhi)
The Principality of Beiping (北平) was a polity of China's Five Dynasties period, based on the Yiwu Military Commission at Dingzhou and ruled by the Wang family.
Principality of Benevento
Principality of Benevento: Lombard state of southern Italy, independent principality from 774 under Arechis II, partitioned in 849 into Benevento and Salerno, ended as a papal enclave from 1077.
Principality of Berat
The Principality of Berat (Principata e Muzakajve) was a medieval principality in south-central Albania ruled by the Muzaka family, with Berat as its capital, until the Ottoman conquest of 1417.
Principality of Bulgaria
The Principality of Bulgaria (Княжество България) was an autonomous, tributary principality under Ottoman suzerainty from 1878, ending when Prince Ferdinand I proclaimed independence in 1908.
Principality of Catalonia
Principality of Catalonia (Principat de Catalunya), medieval and early modern polity of the Catalan counties in the Crown of Aragon, governed by pactist institutions (Corts, Generalitat) until abolished by the Nueva Planta decree of 1716.
Principality of Chengdu (Sima Ying)
The Principality of Chengdu (成都国) was a princely state of China's Western Jin dynasty, held by the imperial prince Sima Ying and created from Shujun before reverting to a commandery.
Principality of Chernigov
The Principality of Chernigov (Черниговское княжество) was an Old Russian feudal principality of the 11th to 13th centuries, centered at Chernigov and ruled by the Olgovichi dynasty.
Principality of Donghai
The Principality of Donghai (东海王国) was an Eastern Han princely kingdom centered on Donghai commandery, seated at Tan county in Shandong, first held by Liu Qiang in 43.
Principality of Durrës
The Principality of Durrës, also called the Principality of Arbri, was a short-lived Albanian principality of the late 14th century, ruled by the Thopia family.
Principality of Elba
Principality of Elba (Principato d'Elba): short-lived sovereign state created for Napoleon by the Treaty of Fontainebleau, 11 April 1814; he ruled the island's 12,000 inhabitants from Portoferraio for less than ten months before escaping on 26 February 1815.
Principality of Galich
The Principality of Galich (Галичское княжество), also called Galich-Mersky, was an appanage principality of North-Eastern Rus, founded in the mid-1240s for Konstantin Yaroslavich and absorbed by Moscow in 1450.
Principality of Galicia
The Principality of Galicia (Галицкое княжество) was a princely state in southwestern Rus' of the 12th to early 14th centuries, with its capital at Galich on the upper Dniester.
Principality of Guria
The Principality of Guria (Georgian: გურიის სამთავრო) was a feudal principality in western Georgia ruled by the House of Gurieli until its annexation by Russia in 1829.
Principality of Han (Ming princedom)
The Principality of Han (漢王府) was a Ming princedom held by Zhu Gaoxu, whose residence was moved to Le'an, and whose revolt brought harsher limits on princes.
Principality of Hungary
The Principality of Hungary, also called the Grand Principality or Hungarian Duchy, was the Magyar tribal federation in the Carpathian Basin from about 895 until 1000.
Principality of Hutt River
The Principality of Hutt River, originally the Hutt River Province, was an unrecognized Australian micronation proclaimed by farmer Leonard Casley in 1970 and dissolved in 2020 over a tax debt.
Principality of Iberia
The Principality of Iberia, also called the Principate of Iberia or Kartlis saerismtavro, ruled Kartli in eastern Georgia through presiding princes from around 580 until kingship was restored in 888.
Principality of Karvuna
The Principality of Karvuna, also called the Despotate of Dobrudja, was an autonomous principality in northeastern Bulgaria and southeastern Romania during the 14th century, ruled by Dobrotitsa and ended by Ottoman attacks around 1397.
Principality of Kastrioti
The Principality of Kastrioti (Principata e Kastriotit) was an Albanian principality of the late 14th and 15th centuries, ruled by the Kastrioti family from Kruja.
Principality of Khachen
The Principality of Khachen (Armenian: Խաչենի Իշխանություն) was a medieval Armenian principality in the mountainous core of Artsakh, in modern Nagorno-Karabakh, existing from the 9th to the 16th centuries.
Principality of Kiev
The Principality of Kiev (Киевское княжество) was the senior principality of Rus', ruled from Kiev on the Dnieper and ruined in the Mongol invasion of 1240.
Principality of Lampang
The Principality of Lampang (นครลำปาง), also called Nakhon Lampang or Khelang Nakhon, was a principality in the Wang River valley of northern Thailand under the Lan Na kingdom and later a tributary of Siam.
Principality of Lutsk
The Principality of Lutsk (Луцьке князівство) was a principality of Kievan Rus' centered on Lutsk, formed in the late 11th century and absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century.