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The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
The following are the 25 longest-reigning monarchs of states who were internationally recognised as sovereign for most or all of their reign. Byzantine emperors Constantine VIII and Basil II, reigning for 66 years in total (962–1028) and for 65 years in total (960–1025) respectively, are not included, because for part of those periods they reigned only nominally as junior co-emperors ...
Konbaung Dynasty: 1752: 1885: 133 Kong Empire: 1710: 1898: 188 Korean Empire: 1897: 1910: 13 Kushan Empire: 30: 375: 345 Kingdom of Kush: 1077 BC: 350: 1427 Kyrgyz Khaganate: 539: 1207: 668 Latin Empire: 1204: 1261: 57 Lê Dynasty: 1428: 1789: 361 Liao Dynasty: 907: 1125: 218 Lodi Sultanate: 1451: 1526: 75 Lavo Kingdom: 468: 1388: 920 Macedonia ...
Fortune estimates the Mughal Dynasty generated one-quarter of the world’s economic output at the empire’s peak in 1700. ... the largest empire ever — and 412 million subjects or 23% of the ...
It is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world. [3] The Monarchs of Norway by virtue of descent from Harald I Fairhair, who united the realm in 872. Harald as a member of the House of Yngling is given a partly legendary line of succession from earlier petty kings in historiographical tradition. Far from all Monarchs of Norway ...
Coronation; Criticism; Dynasty. Lists; Family. Descent; Family trees; Illegitimate; Emperor system of Japan; Figurehead; Heir apparent; presumptive; Kingmaker; List ...
Hassanal Bolkiah, the longest-reigning existing monarch. This is a list of reigning monarchs sorted by length of service.. This list includes monarchs who do not reign over entire nations, such as Muhammad V of Kelantan, but does not include former monarchs and pretenders, such as Simeon II of Bulgaria, ex officio monarchs such as Emmanuel Macron who in his capacity as President of France is ...