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Principality of Mingrelia
The Principality of Mingrelia (Georgian: სამეგრელო, Samegrelo), also called Odishi, was a hereditary principality in western Georgia ruled by the House of Dadiani until Russia abolished it in 1867.
Principality of Minsk
The Principality of Minsk (Мінскае княства) was an East Slavic princely state of the 12th to 14th centuries, its capital at Minsk, separated from Polotsk in the early 12th century.
Principality of Montenegro
The Principality of Montenegro (Knjaževina Crna Gora) was a Balkan state ruled by the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty, proclaimed in 1852 and raised to a kingdom in 1910.
Principality of Moscow
The Principality of Moscow (Московское княжество) was an appanage principality of North-Eastern Rus', allocated to Daniil Alexandrovich, that grew into the grand principality unifying the Russian lands.
Principality of Mstislavl
The Principality of Mstislavl was an appanage principality centered on Mstislavl in eastern Belarus, existing from 1180 until the early 16th century under Smolensk and then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Principality of Muang Sing
The Principality of Muang Sing (Müang Sing, Lao ເມືອງສິງ) was a small Tai Lue principality in northwestern Laos, partitioned along the Mekong by Britain and France in 1896.
Principality of Murom-Ryazan
The Principality of Murom-Ryazan (Муромо-Рязанское княжество) was a Rus' principality in the Oka river basin, formed in 1127 under Yaroslav Svyatoslavich with its capital at Murom.
Principality of Nan
The Principality of Nan (นครน่าน) was a Tai hereditary principality in the Nan River valley of northern Thailand, ruled by 64 lords until the monarchy was abolished in 1931.
Principality of Neuchâtel
Principality of Neuchâtel (Fürstentum Neuenburg), a Swiss principality under the Orléans-Longueville dynasty and then, from 1707 to 1848, the King of Prussia; a Confederation canton from 1814, it became a republic by the 1848 revolution, with Prussia renouncing its claim in 1857.
Principality of Ning (Prince of Ning's establishment)
The Principality of Ning (宁王府) was the early Ming princely establishment of the Prince of Ning, built at Daning and moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi, early in the Yongle era.
Principality of Nitra
The Principality of Nitra (Nitrianske kniežatstvo) was a Slavic principality centered on Nitra in western Slovakia, arising around the end of the 8th century and lasting until 1108.
Principality of Nizhny Novgorod–Suzdal
The Principality of Nizhny Novgorod–Suzdal (Нижегородско-Суздальское княжество) was a grand principality of North-Eastern Rus, created by the Golden Horde in 1341 and annexed by Moscow in 1392.
Principality of Novgorod-Seversky
The Principality of Novgorod-Seversky (Новгород-Северское княжество) was a principality of Kievan Rus' ruled by the Olgovichi, assigned to Oleg Svyatoslavich in 1097 and abolished in 1523.
Principality of Novogrudok
The Principality of Novogrudok (Belarusian: Наваградскае княства) was a medieval East Slavic principality centered on Novogrudok, in today's Belarus, which formed the core of Black Ruthenia.
Principality of Orange
The Principality of Orange (Principauté d'Orange) was a small sovereign feudal state in Provence, southern France, held by the House of Orange-Nassau and ceded to France in 1713.
Principality of Pagania
The Principality of Pagania (Neretljanska kneževina), or Narentine principality, was an early medieval Slavic pirate polity on the Adriatic between the Cetina and Neretva rivers.
Principality of Peremyshl
The Principality of Peremyshl (Перемишльське князівство) was a medieval Rus' principality with its capital at Peremyshl, today Przemyśl in Poland, ruled by the Rostyslavych princes.
Principality of Pereyaslavl
The Principality of Pereyaslavl (Переяславское княжество) was a principality of Kievan Rus' centered on Pereyaslavl, formed in 1054 and destroyed by the Mongol invasion in 1239.
Principality of Phrae
The Principality of Phrae (นครแพร่) was a principality in the Yom River valley of northern Thailand, a Lan Na successor state annexed by Siam in 1899.
Principality of Pinsk
The Principality of Pinsk (Пінскае княства) was a medieval East Slavic appanage principality in Polesia, centered on Pinsk in what is now southwestern Belarus.
Principality of Polotsk
The Principality of Polotsk (Полоцкое княжество) was a medieval principality with its capital at Polotsk in northern Belarus, often independent of Kiev and annexed by Lithuania in 1307.
Principality of Prilep
The Principality of Prilep, also called the Kingdom of Prilep, was a Balkan polity centered on Prilep, ruled by King Marko Mrnjavčević from 1371 to 1395.
Principality of Romania
The Principality of Romania was the state formed in 1859 by the union of Moldavia and Wallachia, becoming the independent Kingdom of Romania in 1881.
Principality of Rostov
The Principality of Rostov (Ростовское княжество) was a principality of Rus' of the 13th to 15th centuries, with its capital at Rostov Veliky; its princes sold their last rights to Ivan III in 1474.
Principality of Samos
The Principality of Samos (Greek: Πριγκιπάτο της Σάμου), known as the Hegemony, was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire from 1834 to 1912.
Principality of Sealand
Principality of Sealand (西兰公国), self-declared state on Roughs Tower, a WWII sea fort about 12 km off Suffolk, England. Declared independent by Roy Bates in 1967; unrecognized by any UN state; about 550 m², motto E Mare Libertas.
Principality of Serbia
The Principality of Serbia (Кнежевина Србија) was a Serbian state existing from the 1815 Second Serbian Uprising until 1882, when it was proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbia.
Principality of Slutsk
The Principality of Slutsk (Слуцкае княства) was an appanage principality centered on Slutsk, in what is now Belarus, joined to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century.
Principality of Smolensk
The Principality of Smolensk (Смоленское княжество) was a Russian principality created in 1054 by Yaroslav the Wise, with its capital at Smolensk, later annexed by Lithuania.
Principality of Svaneti
The Principality of Svaneti (Georgian: სვანეთის სამთავრო) was a principality in the Caucasus mountains of western Georgia, existing from the late 15th century to Russian annexation in 1858.