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The cloister of San Isidoro in 2014. The Cortes of León or Decreta of León from year 1188 was a parliamentary body in the medieval Kingdom of León.According to UNESCO, it is the first historically documented example of a parliamentary system.
Inspired by the Scottish National Party's campaign for an independent Scotland, [15] [16] the NIP seeks to make the North of England an independent state under the name Northumbria, [6] which previously existed as an Anglo-Saxon medieval kingdom from the 7th century until the 10th century.
The name of this era of history derives from classical antiquity (or the Greco-Roman era) of Europe. Though, the everyday context in use is reverse (such as historians reference to Medieval China ). In European history, "post-classical" is synonymous with the medieval time or Middle Ages , the period of history from around the 5th century to ...
Xia Kingdom (2070 BC–1600 BC) Shang Kingdom (c. 1600–1046 BC) Late Bronze Age. Mitanni Kingdom (c. 1500 BC–c. 1300 BC) Kingdom of Arzawa (c. 1500 BC–c. 1200 BC) Phoenicia (1200 BC–539 BC) Iron Age. Sindhu-Sauvīra (1300 BC- 518 BC) Magadha Kingdom (until 320 BC) Colchis (–164 BC) Kingdom of Phrygia (until 696 BC) Kingdom of Lydia ...
Modernized name Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Amals: Middle High German: Amelunge, Old Norse: Aumlungar, Old English: Amulinga in Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius. [1] The Gothic Amal dynasty, to which Theodoric the Great and Ermanaric belonged. Name probably derived from Gothic *amals (bravery ...
Itinerant kings depicted in a medieval church painting, Dädesjö Old Church, Sweden. An itinerant court was a migratory form of government shared in European kingdoms during the Early Middle Ages. It was an alternative to having a capital city, a permanent political center governed by a kingdom.
A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. Self-proclaimed monarchy: A form of government where the monarch claims a monarch title without a nexus to the previous monarch dynasty.
The Duchy of Franconia (Middle High German: Herzogtuom Franken) was one of the five stem duchies of East Francia and the medieval Kingdom of Germany emerging in the early 10th century. The word Franconia, first used in a Latin charter of 1053, was applied like the words Francia , France , and Franken , to a portion of the land occupied by the ...