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The prince's estate and wealth may be located mainly or wholly outside the geographical confines of the principality. Generally recognised surviving sovereign principalities are Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the co-principality of Andorra. Extant royal primogenitures styled as principalities include Asturias (Spain).
Kingdom of Imereti Russian Empire The Principality of Mingrelia ( Georgian : სამეგრელოს სამთავრო , romanized : samegrelos samtavro ), also known as Odishi and as Samegrelo, was a historical state in Georgia ruled by the Dadiani dynasty .
Eze, the Igbo word for the King or Ruler of a kingdom or city-state. It is cognate with Obi and Igwe. Oba, the Yoruba word for King or Ruler of a kingdom or city-state. It is used across all the traditional Yoruba lands, as well as by the Edo, throughout Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
A Kingdom Hall or Assembly Hall may originate from the renovation of an existing structure, such as a theater or non-Witness house of worship. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In areas of repeated or reputed vandalism, particularly in cities, some Kingdom Halls are built without windows to reduce the risk of property damage.
In the period of Georgian unity (1008–1463), it was a duchy within the Bagratid kingdom of Georgia ruled first by the house of Vardanidze from the late 11th to the 14th century, and then by that of Gelovani which established themselves as virtually independent princes when Georgia fragmented, in the 1460s (officially 1490/1491), into three ...
The principality emerged with Tanusio Thopia, mentioned in 1329 as the count of Albania. [3] [4] In an act of Robert, King of Naples in 15 April 1338, Tanusio was mentioned as Count of Mat (conte di Matia), [5] [6] [7] which reconfirmed Thopia's relations to the Angevins from the time of Philip I. [6] By 1340 the Thopia controlled much of the territory between the rivers Mati and Shkumbin rivers.
When we think of boy bands, acts like the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC typically come to mind, but the new documentary film Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands is a look at the history of boy ...
The prince was not only the ruler of the country; he was also its owner". [153] During the appanage period, princes and their retinues played a major administrative and social role in their principalities; however, with the rise of the grand principality of Moscow, the role of those princes were subordinated to the grand prince and the emerging ...