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King of Kings was revived in the Kingdom of Georgia by King David IV (r. 1089–1125 AD), rendered as mepet mepe in Georgian. All subsequent Georgian monarchs, such as Tamar the Great, used the title to describe their rule over all Georgian principalities, vassals and tributaries. Their use of the title probably derived from the ancient Persian ...
The name Shahanshah, meaning King of Kings, derived from the fact that there were many feudal kings in Sasanian Iran with the Shahanshah as the ruler of them all. Their fall meant their power was redirected to the central government and all taxes now went to the central government rather than to the local nobility.
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. A king is an absolute monarch if he holds the powers of government without control, or the entire sovereignty over a nation; he is a limited monarch if his power is restrained by fixed laws; and he is an absolute, when he holds the whole legislative, judicial, and executive power, or when the legislative or judicial powers, or ...
The title is most usually associated with the shahanshah (shah of shahs, i.e. king of kings, indeed translated from Greek as basileus tōn basileōn, later adopted by the Byzantine emperors) of Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty whose vast empire in Asia lasted for 200 years up to the year 330 BC, which was later adopted by successors of the Achaemenid Empire whose monarchial names were also ...
Mepe-Mepeta, მეფეთა მეფე, Georgian for "king of kings" Rajadhiraja, [6] Sanskrit for "king of kings" Maharajadhiraja, [6] meaning "great king of kings", used by the emperors of the Gupta Empire. [8] In ancient India it was an imperial title, but later became a royal title. Malik al-Muluk, Arabic title meaning "king of kings" [9]
Negus is a noun derived from the Ge'ez Semitic root ngś, meaning "to reign". The title Negus literally translated to Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς) in Ancient Greek, which was seen many times on Aksumite currency. The title has subsequently been used to translate the word "king" or "emperor" in Biblical and other literature.
It is also one of the Names of God in Islam, and is then al-Malik (الملك) or The King, Lord of the Worlds in the absolute sense (denoted by the definite article), meaning the King of Kings, above all earthly rulers. Hence, Abdelmelik ("servant of [Allah] the King") is an Arabic male name.
The King of Kings, a Cecil B. DeMille film; King of Kings, a Nicholas Ray film; The King of Kings, a 1963 Czech film; King of Kings, a Hong Kong film starring Peter Yang; The King of Kings, an upcoming animated film; Motu Patlu: King of Kings, a 2016 Indian animated film