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Regents of Europe
The purpose with this section is to gather lists of regents from those
states that have played an important roll in European history. But it is
also my intent to show all the unions between different states that occurred
when a person became regent over more than one country, these unions were very
common during late middle age and early modern age. For that reason I
have
placed flags next to the names of rulers who also ruled other countries. The
explanation to the flags is located at
this page.
I
have chosen to use the regents’ native names instead of English names when I
wrote the lists. That is mainly for practical reasons since I also have a
Swedish version of these pages, but it is also because I find it interesting
to know the regents’ “real names”. The problem with this approach is that
some names can be hard to recognize for an English speaking reader. I have
therefore made a guide to how names are translated to different languages;
you will find it at the page "Regent
names"
= Emperor
= King or tsar
Purple text = Civil regents with non-noble titles.
Red text = Rival regents and different forms of discontinuity.
Green text = Regent's bi-name translated to English or other comment. |
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