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Mazovia
Mazovia or Masovia Pol. Mazowsze, historic region, central Poland. At the death (1138) of Boleslaus III, Mazovia became an independent duchy under the Piast dynasty. It became a suzerainty of Great Poland in 1351 and was finally united with it in 1526. Mazovia passed to Prussia during the 1... Read more
Albert of Brandenburg
Albert of Brandenburg 1490-1568, grand master of the Teutonic Knights (1511-25), first duke of Prussia (1525-68); grandson of Elector Albert Achilles of Brandenburg. In 1525 he became a Protestant, and on the advice of Martin Luther he secularized the dominions of the Teutonic Knights and becam... Read more
Barbarossa
Barbarossa [Ital.,=red-beard], surname of the Turkish corsair Khayr ad-Din (c.1483-1546). Barbarossa and his brother Aruj, having seized (1518) Algiers from the Spanish, placed Algeria under Turkish suzerainty. He extended his conquests to the rest of the Barbary States. Between 1533 and 1544, as a... Read more
Saint Gregory II
Saint Gregory II d. 731, pope (715-31), a Roman; successor of Constantine. When Byzantine Emperor Leo III tried to impose iconoclasm in Italy by an imperial edict, Gregory answered that the emperor could not decide tenets of faith. He was supported by a popular uprising directed at the exarch of ... Read more
Casimir III
Casimir III 1310-70, king of Poland (1333-70), son of Ladislaus I and last of the Piast dynasty. Called Casimir the Great, he brought comparative peace to Poland. By the Congress of Visegrad (1335) he promised to recognize the suzerainty over Silesia of John of Luxemburg, king of Bohemia; in re... Read more
Holstein
Holstein former duchy, N central Germany, the part of Schleswig-Holstein S of the Eider River. Kiel and Rendsburg were the chief cities. For a description of Holstein and for its history after 1814, see Schleswig-Holstein . For a time part of the duchy of Saxony, Holstein was created (1111) a coun... Read more
Treaty of Shimonoseki
Treaty of Shimonoseki Apr. 17, 1895, ending the First Sino-Japanese War . It was negotiated and signed by Ito Hirobumi for Japan and Li Hung-chang for China. Harsh terms were imposed on a badly defeated China. The treaty provided for the end of Chinese suzerainty over Korea, giving Korea independe... Read more
Athos
Athos , Aktí , or Akte , easternmost of the three peninsulas of Khalkidhikí , c.130 sq mi (340 sq km), NE Greece, in Macedonia. The narrow, northern base of the peninsula was once cut by canal dug by the Persians during Xerxes' invasion of Greece (see Persian Wars ). At the sou... Read more
Ch'ien-lung
Ch'ien-lung , 1711-99, reign title of the fourth emperor (1735-96) of the Ch'ing dynasty, whose given name was Hung-li. Under his vigorous military policy, China attained its maximum territorial expanse; Xinjiang in the west was conquered, and Myanmar and Annam in the south were forced to recogniz... Read more
Courland
Courland or Kurland , Latvian Kurzeme, historic region and former duchy, in Latvia, between the Baltic Sea and the Western Dvina River. It is an agricultural and wooded lowland. Jelgava (Ger. Mitau ), the historic capital, and Liepaja (Ger. Libau ) and Ventspils (Ger. Windau ), the Baltic s... Read more

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East Prussia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...West Prussia ) and Ermeland to Poland and accepted Polish suzerainty over the rest of their domain. Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg...title "duke of Prussia" in 1525, remaining under Polish suzerainty. The duchy was inherited (1618) by the elector of Brandenburg...
Angevin empire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...duchy in 1144, abdicated in his favour. Henry also claimed suzerainty over the duchy of Brittany, a claim inherited from his Norman...other lordships over which the dukes of Aquitaine claimed suzerainty. Ireland also came into the Angevin orbit following Henry...
Ainu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...thirteenth century when northern Sakhalin submitted to Mongol suzerainty subsequent to the Mongol conquest of China. The period between...Ainu fought valiantly until 1308, finally submitting to the suzerainty of the Yuan dynasty, the Mongolian dynasty that ruled China...
Pende
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...of the Cuanza and upper Kwango. They did not recognize the suzerainty of Mwata Kombana because he could not defend them from Cokwe...European colonists ended hostilities and any Lunda claim of suzerainty. Certain elements of precolonial relations remain, however...
Walachia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...continued to be governed by its own princes under Turkish suzerainty. Like Moldavia, it was torn by strife among the great landowners...the principalities virtual independence under the nominal suzerainty of Turkey. With the accession (1859) of Alexander John...
Teutonic Knights
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...von Salza placed (1234) his conquests under papal suzerainty and set about to organize them as a separate German...were long unsuccessful in asserting their claim to suzerainty over the order. After some 50 years of successful...
Serbia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...theoretically under a grand zhupan, who usually recognized Byzantine suzerainty. Civil strife and constant warfare with their Bulgarian...10th cent. Bulgaria, meanwhile, challenged Byzantium for suzerainty over the Serbs. Stephen Nemanja, whom the Byzantine emperor...
Prussia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Brandenburg , the domain became a hereditary duchy under Polish suzerainty, ruled by a branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty of Brandenburg...1660, by the treaty of Oliva , full independence from Polish suzerainty was confirmed to Frederick William , the Great Elector. In...
Andorra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of the president of France and the bishop of Seo de Urgel...and finally in 1278 an agreement was reached providing joint suzerainty. The rights of the count passed by inheritance through the...
York, kingdom of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Ragnall, a grandson of Ivarr, submitted to Edward in 920. The later decades of the kingdom were chaotic. England's suzerainty seems to have lasted since Ragnall's successor Sihtric was married to a sister of Athelstan , who took over the kingdom...

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Qatar
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...immigrant workers. History Historically linked with Bahrain, Qatar was under Bahraini suzerainty for much of the 19th century. In 1872 it came under Ottoman suzerainty, but the Ottomans renounced their rights in 1913. In 1916 Qatar made an agreement...
Herod
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...friend of the Romans and from 37 BCE, when he seized Jerusalem from Antigonus II, he was their king, though under Roman suzerainty. He was responsible for important building projects—Caesarea on the coast, the fortress-prisons of Masada...
Balkan Wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1913) Greece and Serbia partitioned Macedonia, and Romania gained part of Bulgaria. Albania, which had been under Turkish suzerainty, was made an independent Muslim principality. A ‘big Serbia’ now presented a considerable threat to...
Mehemet Ali
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...defeated the Ottoman troops at the battle of Nizip (1839). Threatened by united European opposition, he agreed to accept the suzerainty of the Ottoman sultan in 1841 and in return was granted a request that his family be hereditary pashas of Egypt.
Rhodesia
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...through a ‘Unilateral Declaration ofIndependence’—independence, that is, from British suzerainty—issued in 1965. Eventually the native peoples won their own battle, helped by international sanctions; and...
Rozvi empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...gold-mining in the interior and for a time successfully warded off Portuguese attempts to conquer them, but in 1629 the Mwene Mutapa acknowledged Portuguese suzerainty. The empire was finally broken up by the Ndebele in the 1830s.
Pretoria, convention of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877. The Boers were given self‐government, but the British retained suzerainty and the conduct of foreign relations. This shaky compromise was undermined by the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand...
Brittany
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...political leader of the Bretons, subject of many legends, was Nominoë (9th cent.), who first accepted Frankish suzerainty but later revolted and restored Breton independence. Although Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of ‘tale-telling Bretons...
Ladislaus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Controversy he took the side of Gregory VII and Victor III against the German Emperor, but when Urban II refused to acknowledge his suzerainty over Croatia, his relations with the Papacy came under strain. He laboured to spread the Christian faith, especially in...
Jerusalem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...the ‘Second Temple’). After the Exile the Jews were an ecclesiastically governed State under the suzerainty of various foreign powers. There was a short dynasty of priest-kings at the end of the Maccabean wars, but after the conquest...

Thesaurus entries related to "Suzerainty"

dominion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...preeminence, hegemony, authority, mastery, control, command, power, sway, rule, government, jurisdiction, sovereignty, suzerainty. See note at jurisdiction.   2. a British dominion synonyms : dependency, colony, protectorate, territory...
occupation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 4. the Roman occupation of Britain synonyms : conquest, capture, invasion, seizure, takeover, annexation, overrunning, subjugation, subjection, appropriation; colonization, rule, control, possession, suzerainty.
sovereignty
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 1. their sovereignty over the islands synonyms : jurisdiction, rule, supremacy, dominion, power, ascendancy, suzerainty, hegemony, domination, authority, control, influence. See note at jurisdiction.   2. the colony demanded full...

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American--suzerainty--redivivus
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 7/7/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...appreciate the unmistakable difference between sovereignty and suzerainty. Interestingly enough, not many mainstream American reporters...routinely defend their territorial integrity. Rather, it is a "suzerainty," a polity or nation whose agenda or destiny is dictated...
The duty of the benevolent master: from sovereignty to suzerainty and the biopolitics of intervention.
Magazine article from: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...institutional accounts of sovereignty and practices of suzerainty in which intervention "outside" is accompanied by...inside." KEYWORDS: intervention, sovereignty, suzerainty, biopolitics, imperialism. ********** Expressed...
Sharif Husayn ibn Ali and the Hashemite vision of the post-Ottoman order: from chieftaincy to suzerainty.
Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...it included ideas developed from his own experience as the leader of an Arabian chieftaincy. Husayn's vision was of a suzerainty, a ri'asah. The notion of a Sharifian Caliphate in Mecca has roots that go back to at least the fifteenth century, and...
HISTORY OF MCMAHON LINE
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 3/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...successful in throwing off the so-called suzerainty of the Chinese and they were in no mood...Chinese had exercised a vague and remote suzerainty, based on a personal relationship between...Whatever, the undemocratic and nominal suzerainty the Chinese had over Tibet by the Anglo...
Pax Atlantica: the case for Euramerica. (alliance between the United States, Canada and the European Union)
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...alliance and less than a formal empire. Call it a suzerainty. Under the American suzerainty, Japan, South Korea, and the truncated western...served its purpose of making America's suzerainty over western Europe look like the natural harmony...
Checking out the ties that bind Malaysia, Thailand over the years
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 9/22/2002; 522 words ; ...chequered history, with the Thais having suzerainty over several northern Malay states for...Ayudhya saw it as Malay recognition of its suzerainty. Thai control over nothern Malaysia...Perak and made Perak acknowledge Siamese suzerainty. In 1821, Siam invaded Kedah and exiled...
Tartan myth by design
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/14/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...unjustified claim by Edward I of England to suzerainty over Scotland, and his ruthless egoistic...Edward I, for example, while claiming suzerainty over Scotland, gave homage to Philip...against Edward's overweening claims to suzerainty, he did so in the name of King John...
Miliband 'undermining Dalai Lama over Tibet'
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/6/2008; ; 549 words ; ...time, London recognised China's "suzerainty" over the Tibetan region, but crucially not its sovereignty. Suzerainty is described as dominance or power...developed from the outdated concept of suzerainty," he said.. "Some have used...
Pine Point Perspective
Newspaper article from: Ojibwe News, The; 7/29/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...law. What is the meaning of the word: "SUZERAINTY," and what are its essentials? "SUZERAINTY" is the term which the United States unknowingly...regard to its own territory. And thus suzerainty over the native state becomes the basis...
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Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...which ended Tibets independence by invading in 1906, and Chinathen claimed suzerainty (limited control) over the region to prevent Britainannexing it. Chinese suzerainty was recog-nised in international treaties between Britain,China, Tibet...