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This is a list of kingdoms and royal dynasties, organized by geographic region. Note: many countries have had multiple dynasties over the course of recorded history. This is not a comprehensively exhaustive list and may require further additions or historical verification.
The Kingdom of Spain by descent from the Catholic Monarchs (via the House of Habsburg), ultimately combining the lines of succession of Castile and León and Aragon, realms established in the 10th to 11th centuries in the course of the Reconquista, via the Kingdom of Asturias claiming descent from the Visigothic Kingdom (which, originally ruled ...
Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918; dissolved after World War I) Kingdom of Bhutan (1907–2008; absolute power voluntarily rescinded by king in 1969; became constitutional monarchy in 2008) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1932–present) Kingdom of Cambodia (1954–1970; Ended by military coup; kingdom restored as constitutional monarchy in 1993)
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. Dynasties had/have assumed power ...
Examples of executive monarchs (middle row): Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein; Mohammed VI, King of Morocco; Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Dragon King Of Bhutan; Examples of ceremonial monarchs (bottom row): Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms; Naruhito, Emperor of Japan; Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Kingdom of Hungary: 1000: 1918: 918 Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946) 1920: 1946: 26 Husainid Dynasty: 1705: 1957: 252 Idrisid Dynasty: 788: 974: 186 Iberian Union: 1580: 1640: 60 Ilkhanate: 1256: 1335: 79 Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) 1047 BC: 930 BC: 117 Kingdom of Judah (united monarchy) 930 BC: 586 BC: 344 Kingdom of Jerusalem: 1099: ...
The period of the "Five Good Emperors" saw a successions of peaceful years and the Empire was prosperous. Each emperor of this period was adopted by his predecessor. The Nerva–Antonine dynasty was a dynasty of seven consecutive Roman Emperors who ruled over the Roman Empire from 96 to 192. These Emperors are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus ...
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).