duchies
Realms of dukes
Duchies is the plural of duchy, a territory ruled by a duke or duchess.
Historically, duchies were semi-autonomous regions within larger kingdoms or empires: the duchies of Normandy and Burgundy.
Some persist today as ceremonial titles or small sovereign states: Luxembourg is officially a grand duchy.
Area of control
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
- principalityNoble-ruled territory
- provinceRegional administrative district
- regionIndefinite bounded area
county · land · fiefdom · jurisdiction · bailiwick · borders · boundaries · annexation
Feudal territory under lord
- vassalageSubordination to a lord
- liegeFeudal superior or subject
- fealtyPledged devotion to authority
- homageExpression of deep respect
serfdom · manorialism · knight · squire · chivalry · heraldry · castle · keep
domain
Area of control
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
- principalityNoble-ruled territory
- provinceRegional administrative district
region · county · land · fiefdom · jurisdiction · bailiwick · borders · boundaries · annexation · partition
fiefdom
Feudal territory under lord
homage · serfdom · manorialism · knight · squire · chivalry · heraldry · castle · keep · moat
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
- peerageSystem of noble ranks
- hereditaryPassed through generations
- titlesNames of creative works
lineage · ancestry · gentry · countess · marquess · viscount · baron · earldom · blueblood · patrician
monarch
Hereditary supreme ruler
throne · royalty · kingdom · coronation · regent · scepter · sovereignty · palace · imperial · succession
- Holy Roman EmpireHoly Roman Empire, emperors, electors, prince-electors, Charlemagne
- Schleswig-HolsteinBismarck, Jutland
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
- aristocracylord, titles, lady, heraldry, noble titles
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
duchiesrepublics
States with elected governance
democracies · city-states · theocracies · communes · oligarchies
duchiesempires
Extensive ruled territories
kingdoms · nation-states · superpowers · sovereign states · great powers
duke, archduke, duchess, duchy, duchesses, dukedom, ducal, dukedoms, marchioness