World Monarchies and Dynasties.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Features -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology of Dynasties and Kingdoms -- A -- Abbas the Great -- Abbasid Dynasty -- Abd al-Hamid II -- Abd al-Rahman -- Abdication, Royal -- Abu Bakr -- Accession and Crowning of Kings -- Achaemenid Dynasty -- Acheh Kingdom -- Afonso I -- Afonso I, Nzinga Mbemba -- African Kingdoms -- Ahab -- Ahmadnagar Kingdom -- Ahmose I -- Akan Kingdoms -- Akbar the Great -- Akhenaten -- Akkad, Kingdom of -- Aksum Kingdom -- Alaric I -- Alaungpaya Dynasty -- Albert I -- Alexander I -- Alexander I, Tsar -- Alexander II -- Alexander III, the Great -- Alexandra -- Alfonso V, the Magnanimous -- Alfonso X, the Wise -- Alfred the Great -- Almohad Dynasty -- Almoravid Dynasty -- Ambassadors -- American Kingdoms, Central and North -- Amhara Kingdom -- Andhra Kingdom -- Angevin Dynasties -- Angkor Kingdom -- Anglo-Saxon Rulers -- Anjou Kingdom -- Ankole Kingdom -- Anne -- Antiochus III, the Great -- Aquitaine Duchy -- Arabia, Kingdoms of -- Arachosia Kingdom -- Aragón, House of -- Aragón, Kingdom of -- Aramean Kingdoms -- Arenas, Royal -- Arles Kingdom -- Armenian Kingdoms -- Arpad Dynasty -- Art of Kings -- Artaxerxes I -- Artaxerxes II -- Artaxerxes III -- Arthur, King -- Asante Kingdom -- Ashikaga Shogunate -- Ashurbanipal -- Asian Dynasties, Central -- Asoka -- Assyrian Empire -- Asturias Kingdom -- Ataliualpa -- Atlialiah -- Athens, Kingdom of -- Attila -- Augustus -- Aurangzeb -- Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Avanti Kingdom -- Aviz Dynasty -- Awan Dynasty -- Aymara Kingdoms -- Ayutthaya Kingdom -- Ayyubid Dynasty -- Azande Kingdoms -- Aztec Empire -- B -- Babenberg Dynasty -- Babur -- Bagirmi Kingdom -- Balimani Dynasty -- Baldwin I -- Bambara Kingdom -- Bamileke Kingdoms -- Bangkok Kingdom -- Banu Khurasan -- Bargliash ibn Sa'id el-Busaidi.

Baroda Kingdom -- Basil I -- Basil II -- Basque Kingdom -- Baths, Royal -- Batu Khan -- Baudouin -- Behavior, Conventions of Royal -- Belgian Kingdom -- Bemba Kingdom -- Benin Kingdom -- Berar Kingdom -- Betsimisaraka Kingdom -- Beyezid II -- Bharatpur Kingdom -- Bhutan Kingdom -- Biblical Kings -- Bidar Kingdom -- Blois-Champagne Dynasty -- Blood, Royal -- Bodies, Politic and Natural -- Bonapartist Empire -- Boru, Brian -- Boudicca (Boadicea) -- Bourbon Dynasty -- Bragança Dynasty -- Brahmarsi-Desa Kingdom -- Brazil, Portuguese Monarchy of -- Bretagne Duchy -- Brooke, Sir James (Rajah) -- Buddhism and Kingship -- Bulgarian Monarchy -- Bundi Kingdom -- Bureaucracy, Royal -- Burgundy Kingdom -- Burmese Kingdoms -- Buyid (Buwayhid) Dynasty -- Byzantine Empire -- C -- Caesars -- Caligula -- Caliphates -- Calukya (Chalukya) Dynasty -- Cambodian Kingdoms -- Cambyses II -- Capet, Hugh -- Capetian Dynasty -- Carolingian Dynasty -- Carthage, Kingdom of -- Casimir III -- Casimir IV -- Caste Systems -- Castile, Kingdom of -- Catalonia, County of -- Catherine II, the Great -- Cera (Chera) Dynasty -- Cetshwayo -- Chakri Dynasty -- Champa Kingdom -- Champassak Kingdom -- Chandella Dynasty -- Chandragupta Maurya -- Chao Dynasties -- Charlemagne -- Charles I -- Charles II -- Charles III -- Charles IV -- Charles V -- Charles VI -- Charles VII -- Chauhan (Chahamanas) Dynasty -- Chavin Empire -- Chenla Empire -- Chiangmai -- Ch'ien Lung (Qianlong) -- Chimü Empire -- Ch'in (Qin) Dynasty -- Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty -- Choson Kingdom -- Chou (Zhou) Dynasty -- Christianity and Kingship -- Christina -- Chulalongkorn -- Class Systems and Royalty -- Claudius -- Cleopatra VII -- Clovis I -- Cnut I -- Coinage, Royal -- Cola Kingdom -- Colonialism and Kingship -- Commerce and Kingship -- Comnenian Dynasty -- Competition, Fraternal -- Concubines, Royal -- Connaught Kingdom.

Conquest and Kingships -- Conrad II -- Conrad III -- Consorts, Royal -- Constantine I, the Great -- Cooks, Royal -- Córdoba, Caliphate of -- Councils and Counselors, Royal -- Courts and Court Officials, Royal -- Croatian Kingdom -- Croesus -- Crusader Kingdoms -- Curses, Royal -- Cyaxares -- Cyrus the Great -- D -- Dacia Kingdom -- Dagomba Kingdom -- Danish Kingdom -- Darius I, the Great -- Darius II (Ochus) -- Darius III (Codommanus) -- David -- David I -- David II -- Deaccession -- Deheubarth Kingdom -- Delhi Kingdom -- Descent, Royal -- Dessalines, Jean-Jacques -- Dethronement -- Dewas Kingdoms -- Dingiswayo -- Diocletian -- Diplomacy, Royal -- Disease and Royalty -- Divination and Diviners, Royal -- Divine Right -- Divinity of Kings -- Djoser -- Dmitri, Grand Prince -- Dual Monarchies -- Dyfed Kingdom -- Dynasty -- E -- Earth and Sky, Separation of -- East Asian Dynasties -- Education of Kings -- Edward I -- Edward II -- Edward III -- Edward the Confessor -- Edward VI -- Egyptian Dynasties, Ancient (before eighteenth dynasty) -- Egyptian Dynasties, Ancient (eighteenth to twenty-sixth) -- Egyptian Dynasties, Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman -- Egyptian Kingdom, Modern -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Election, Royal -- Elizabeth I -- Elizabeth II -- Emissary Letters -- Emperors and Empresses -- Empire -- English Monarchies -- Enthronement, Rites of -- Esarhaddon -- Etiquette, Royal -- Etruscan Kingdoms -- Eunuchs, Royal -- European Kingships -- Executions, Royal -- F -- Faisal I -- Fan Shih-Man -- Farouk -- Fatimid Dynasty -- Ferdinand I -- Ferdinand II -- Ferdinand II and Isabella I -- Feudalism and Kingship -- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms -- Flanders, County of -- Folkung Dynasty -- Fon Kingdom -- Francis I -- Franconian Dynasty -- Frankish Kingdom -- Franz Josef -- Frederick I, Barbarossa -- Frederick II -- Frederick II, the Great.

Frederick William, the Great Elector -- French Monarchies -- Fuad -- Fujiwara Dynasty -- Funan Kingdom -- Funerals and Mortuary Rituals -- Fur Kingdom -- G -- Gahadvalas Dynasty -- Galawdewos -- Ganda Kingdom -- Gauda Kingdom -- Gender and Kingship -- Genealogy, Royal -- Genghis Khan -- George I -- George II -- George III -- George Tupou I -- Ghana Kingdom, Ancient -- Ghaznavid Dynasty -- Ghur Dynasty -- Glywysing Kingdom -- Golconda Kingdom -- Golden Horde Khanate -- Götaland Monarchy -- Granada, Kingdom of -- Greek Kingdoms, Ancient -- Greek Monarchy -- Grimaldi Dynasty -- Grooms of the Stool -- Gudea -- Gujarat Kingdom -- Gupta Empire -- Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty -- Gustavus I (Vasa) -- Gustavus II (Adolphus) -- Gwalior Kingdom -- Gwent Kingdom -- Gwynedd Kingdom -- H -- Haakon VI -- Habsburg Dynasty -- Hadramawt Kingdoms -- Hadrian -- Hafsid Dynasty -- Haihaya Dynasty -- Haile Selassie I -- Hammurabi -- Han Dynasty -- Hanover, House of -- Harald III Hardraade -- Harems -- Harold II Godwinson -- Harun al-Rashid -- Hashemite Dynasty -- Hasmonean Kingdom -- Hassan II -- Hatshepsut -- Hawaiian Kingdoms -- Healing Powers of Kings -- Heavens and Kingship -- Hebrew Kings -- Heian Period -- Hellenistic Dynasties -- Henry II -- Henry IV (England) -- Henry IV (France) -- Henry IV (HRE) -- Henry VIII -- Herod -- Hinduism and Kingship -- Hirohito -- Hittite Empire -- Hohenstaufen Dynasty -- Hohenzollern Dynasty -- Holy Roman Empire -- Homosexuality and Kingship -- Hong Bang Dynasty -- Hsia Dynasty -- Hsuan Tsung (Xuanzong) -- Huang Ti (Huangdi) (Yellow Emperor) -- Huari (Wari) Empire -- Huascar -- Huayna Capac -- Hun Empire -- Hung Wu (Hongwu) -- Hunting and Kingship -- Hussein I -- Hyderabad Kingdom -- Hyksos Dynasty -- I -- Iberian Kingdoms -- Ibn Saud -- Iconography -- Ikhshidid Dynasty -- Il-Khan Dynasty -- Illyria Kingdom -- Imperial Rule -- Inca Empire.

Incest, Royal -- Indian Kingdoms -- Indo-Greek Kingdoms -- Inheritance, Royal -- Irene -- Irish Kings -- Islam and Kingship -- Israel, Kingdoms of -- Itsekeri Kingdom -- Iturbide, Agustín de -- Ivan III, the Great -- Ivan IV, the Terrible -- J -- Jagiello Dynasty -- Jahan, Shah -- Jahangir -- James I of Aragón -- James I of England (James VI of Scotland) -- James II -- James II of Aragón -- Janggala Kingdom -- Jaunpur Kingdom -- Javan Kingdoms -- Jimmu -- João (John) VI -- João the Great -- Jodhpur Kingdom -- John I -- John III (John Sobieski) -- Joseph II -- Juan Carlos -- Judah, Kingdom of -- Judaism and Kingship -- Julian the Apostate -- Juliana -- Julio-Claudians -- Julius Caesar -- Justinian I -- Jutland Kingdom -- K -- Kabarega -- Kafa Kingdom -- Kalacuri Dynasties -- Kalinga Kingdom -- Kalmar Union -- Kamakura Shogunate -- Kamehameha I, the Great -- Kandy Kingdom -- Kanembu-Kanuri Kingdom -- Kanemi, Muhammad Al-Amin Al -- Kang Xi -- Kanva Dynasty -- Kao Tsung (Gaozong) -- Kashmir Kingdom -- Kassites -- Kathiawar Kingdom -- Kenneth I (Kenneth MacAlpin) -- Kent, Kingdom of -- Kertanagara Empire -- Khalji Dynasty -- Khama III -- Khattushili I -- Khazar Kingdom -- Khmer Empire -- Khufu -- Khwarazm-Shah Dynasty -- Kiev, Princedom of -- Kingdoms and Empires -- Kingly Body -- Kings and Queens -- Koguryo Kingdom -- Kondavidu Kingdom -- Kongo Kingdom -- Koryo Kingdom -- Kosala Kingdom -- Kota Kingdom -- Kuang Hsü (Guang Xu) -- Kuang Wu Ti (Guang Wudi) -- Kuba Kingdom -- Kublai Khan -- Kumaon Kingdom -- Kusana Dynasty -- Kush, Kingdom of -- L -- Labor, Forms of -- Lakhmid Dynasty -- Lancaster, House of -- Landholding Patterns -- Le Dynasty -- Legitimacy -- Leinster Kingdom -- León, Kingdom of -- Leopold I -- Leopold II -- Liang Dynasties -- Liang Wu Ti -- Liao Dynasty -- Liliuokalani -- Literature and Kingship -- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of.

Liu Pang (Gao Ti).

Covers reigns and successions, genealogical charts, and dynastic timelines; addresses concepts, problems, and theories of monarchy; provides background and information for further research; highlights important places, structures, symbols, events, and legends related to monarchs and dynasties; includes a bibliography and multiple indexes.

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