historic kingdoms
Fallen sovereign states
Historic kingdoms are nations or territories that were once ruled by monarchs but no longer exist as independent political entities: the historic kingdoms of Europe, studying the historic kingdoms of West Africa.
The phrase often appears in travel writing and history texts to evoke past grandeur or explain regional cultural distinctions that persist today.
- empiresExtensive ruled territories
- fallen empireState that lost supremacy
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- ancient dynastyHistorical ruling family line
- thronesMonarchs' ceremonial chairs
throne room · crowns · medieval · ancient · monarchs · divine right · realms · conquest · castles · feudal · feudal lord · sovereignty · royal bloodline · lineage · pharaohs · sultans · czars · nobility
historic kingdomsdemocracies
Governments elected by people
republics · federal republics · representative governments · theocracies · oligarchies
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