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Crusader Kings III. Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy role-playing video game set in the Middle Ages, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Crusader Kings (2004) and Crusader Kings II (2012). The game was released on PC on 1 September 2020 and on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on ...
The Prussian Homage of 1525 established Ducal Prussia as a vassal duchy of the Kingdom of Poland, in place of the State of the Teutonic Order. Thus in a deal partially brokered by Martin Luther, Roman Catholic Teutonic Prussia was transformed into the Duchy of Prussia, the first Protestant state. Sigismund's consent was bound to Albert's ...
Crusader states. A map of the territorial extent of the Crusader states, Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem, in the Holy Land in 1135, shortly before the Second Crusade. The Crusader states, or Outremer, were four Catholic polities that existed in the Levant from 1098 to 1291. Following the principles of feudalism, the foundation for these ...
The ' Principality of Moscow ' [4] [5] is also known as ' Muscovy ', [5] the ' Grand Principality of Moscow ', [16] [17] [18] ' Muscovite Rus ', [19] [20] or ' Muscovite Russia '. [20] The English names Moscow and Muscovy, for the city, the principality, and the river, descend from post-classical Latin Moscovia, Muscovia (compare Russian Moskoviya, "principality of Moscow"), and ultimately ...
Kingdom of Prussia. Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania[ b ] and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[ c ] or the First Polish Republic, [ d ][ 9 ][ 10 ] was a federative real union [ 11 ] of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 1569 and 1795.
Harald Fairhair[a] (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri) (c. 850 – c. 932) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway. [1][2] Supposedly, two of his sons, Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, succeeded Harald to become ...
The Capetian dynasty (/ kəˈpiːʃən / kə-PEE-shən; French: Capétiens A.K.A Les Capétiens), also known as the House of France (French: La Maison de France), is a dynasty of Frankish origin, and a branch of the Robertians agnatically, and the Karlings through female lines. It is among the largest and oldest royal houses in Europe and the ...
Contents. Kingdom of Iceland. The Kingdom of Iceland (Icelandic: Konungsríkið Ísland; Danish: Kongeriget Island) was a sovereign and independent country under a constitutional and hereditary monarchy that was established by the Act of Union with Denmark signed on 1 December 1918. [ 2 ] It lasted until 17 June 1944 when a national referendum ...