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Suzerainty differs from sovereignty in that the dominant power allows tributary states to be technically independent but enjoy only limited self-rule. Although the situation has existed in a number of historical empires, it is considered difficult to reconcile with 20th- or 21st-century concepts of international law , in which sovereignty is a ...
In 440 BC, Cyrene became a republic, under Persian suzerainty (as had been the latter kings from Arcesilaus III). Cyrene was conquered by Alexander the Great in 331 BC and fell to the portion of Ptolemy I in the division of Alexander's empire. In 276 BC it reasserted its independence.
In Alamannia under Frankish suzerainty (8th century), each pagus was ruled by a count (Gaugraf) who in turn responded to the duke of Alamannia. Many of the names of these territories survive in modern toponymy.
Omani Suzerainty: Wali (Swahili: Liwali) (Governors) 12 December 1698 to December 1698: Imam Sa‘if ibn Sultan, Wali: December 1698 to 12 March 1728: Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Mazru‘i, Wali: Portuguese Suzerainty: Portuguese Colony under Goa: 12 March 1728 to 21 September 1729: Álvaro Caetano de Melo Castro, Captain-Major: Omani Suzerainty
Spanish suzerainty: 24 October 1778 to 14 November 1778: Felipe de los Santos Toro y Freyre, conde de Argelejo, Governor: 14 November 1778 to 30 December 1781: Joaquín Primo de Rivera y Pérez de Acal , Governor: 30 December 1781 to 27 October 1827: Vacant: British suzerainty: Superintendents later Governors of Fernando Pó
French suzerainty: 1887 to 5 June 1894: Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Vice-Consul: 5 June 1894 to April 1895: Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Commissioner-General: 1 June 1895 to 30 April 1899: Marie Auguste Armand Tournier, Commandant-Superior of Bas-Laos: In Khong, Champasak: 1 June 1895 to 9 March 1897: Joseph Vacle, Interim Commandant-Superior of ...
In 1170 they acknowledged the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire, leading to Germanisation and assimilation over the following centuries. The ruling clan of the Obotrites kept its power throughout the Germanisation and ruled their country (except for a short interruption in Thirty Years' War ) as House of Mecklenburg until the end of ...
French Suzerainty: 1 September 1858 to 1 November 1859: Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of Réunion and Indochina, and Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Corps of the Chinese Seas 1 November 1859 to 6 February 1861: Théogène François Page, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of the Chinese Seas