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Linguistic evidence suggests that the origin of the title Andriana is traceable back to an ancient Javanese title of nobility. Before the colonization by France in the 1890s, the Andriana held various privileges, including land ownership, preferment for senior government posts, free labor from members of lower classes, the right to have their ...
The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the United States Constitution. The 11th Congress passed it on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. [1] It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from an "emperor, king, prince or ...
Dey, title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers and Tripoli under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 onwards. Sardar, also spelled as Sirdar, Sardaar or Serdar, is a title of nobility (sir-, sar/sair-means "head or authority" and -dār means "holder" in Sanskrit and Avestan). The feminine form is Sardarni. Pati, Sanskrit for "lord, master"
This category works on a broad definition of nobility, including ruling houses of true monarchies, peerage or equivalents and lower aristocracy or gentry.Please note that this page is unlikely ever to list all 'noble' titles discussed in Wikipedia, since quite some derived/related titles (especially for descendants, as discussed in Prince) and translations (some more may be found via the ...
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...
Only those classified within the social class of royalty and upper nobility have a style of "Highness" attached before their titles. Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, reigning princes, reigning dukes, and princely counts, their families, and the agnatic (of the male bloodline) descendants of emperors and kings.
Titles of nobility of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (3 C, 11 P) S. Spanish titles of nobility (1 C) T. Thai titles of nobility (7 P) U. Peerages in the United Kingdom (14 ...
Pages in category "Titles of nobility" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Count of Verampio