Former monarchies of Asia

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point above mean se

Egyptian civilization from the 4th millennium BC

Babylonia (; , ) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state . During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively called "the country of Akkad" ( in Akkadian), a deliberate archaism in reference to the previous glory of the Akkadian Empire. It was often involved in rivalry with the linguistically related state of Assyria in Upper Mesopotamia, and with Elam to the east. Babylonia briefly became the m

ancient empire in the Mesopotamia (2334–2154 BC)

Manchukuo or Manchoukuo, officially the Manchou Empire after 1934 and State of Manchoukuo prior, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded as a republic, its territory consisting of the lands seized in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; it was later declared to be a constitutional monarchy in 1934, though very little changed in the actual functioning of government. Manchukuo received limited diplomatic recognition, primarily from states aligned with the Axis powers, with its existence widely regarded

feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire

medieval Christian kingdom in the Middle East

Northern Israelite kingdom, c. 930–720 BCE

Turkic Khanate located in southwestern Siberia with a Turco-Mongol ruling class

The Kassites (; Neo-Assyrian: 𒂵𒅆𒄿, ka₃-ši-i, kašši) were a people of the ancient Near East, originating from the Zagros Mountains. They controlled Babylonia under the Kassite Dynasty after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire from until (short chronology).

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Mediaeval kingdom

Himyar was a polity in the southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the region which it claimed. Until 110 BCE, it was integrated into the Qatabanian kingdom; afterward, it was recognized as an independent kingdom. According to classical sources, their capital was the ancient city of Zafar, relatively near the modern-day city of Sanaa. Himyarite power eventually shifted to Sanaa as the population increased in the fifth century. After the establishment of their kingdom, it was ruled by kings from the dhū-Raydān tribe. The kingdom was named Raydān.

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historical Arab monarchy

Nanyue (, , ) was an ancient kingdom founded in 204 BC by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triệu dynasty) continued to rule until 111 BC. Nanyue's geographical expanse covered the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, southern Fujian and central to northern Vietnam. Zhao Tuo, then Commander of Nanhai Commandery of the Qin dynasty, established Nanyue in 204 BC after the collapse of the Qin dynasty. At first, it consisted of the commanderies of Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiang.

imperial Vietnamese dynasty, 1802-1945

former kingdom in Georgia

former sovereign state (1925–1979)

historic sultanate state based on the islands of Sulu, Palawan, and northeastern Borneo

Feudal state in the Caucasus (778-1008)

Chenla or Zhenla (; , ) is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina. The name was still used in the 13th century by the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan, author of The Customs of Cambodia. It appears on the Mao Kun map. However, modern historiography applies the name exclusively to the period from the late 6th to the early 9th century. This period of Cambodian history is known by historians as the Pre-Angkor period. It is doubted whether Chenla ever existed as a unitary kingdom

Nanzhao (), also spelled Nanchao (, Yi language: ꂷꏂꌅ, Mashynzy), was a dynastic kingdom that flourished in what is now southwestern China and northern Southeast Asia during the 8th and 9th centuries, during the mid/late Tang dynasty. It was centered on present-day Yunnan in China, with its capitals in modern-day Dali City. The kingdom was officially called Dameng (大蒙) from 738 to 859 AD, Dali (大禮) from 859 to 877 and Dafengmin (大封民) from 877 to 902.

French noble family, 10th century on

short-lived puppet state (March–August 1945) of Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin

former kingdom that was centred in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam, India

ruling dynasty of Afghanistan from 1823 until 1973

Imperial Vietnamese dynasty (1225–1400)

late medieval monarchy in the Caucasus

1869-1969 UK possession on the Arab Peninsula

Dvaravati refers to a cultural and political network of early historic polities that flourished in the present-day central Thailand from approximately the 6th to the 11th century; however, archaeological evidence suggests that the cultural developments associated with Dvaravati began several centuries earlier, often described as a Proto-Dvaravati phase. It is tentatively regarded as a successor to the polity known in Chinese sources as Lang-chia or Lang-ya-hsiu. Chinese Buddhist accounts from the mid-7th century describe a Buddhist kingdom called To-lo-po-ti, located west of Isanapura (Cambodi

Iranian Muslim dynasty ruling of Azerbaijan and Aran (889–929)

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former Kingdom of Lo

Chinese rebel state (1851 to 1864)

imperial dynasty in Vietnam

peasant rebellion then the decentralized imperial dynasty in Vietnam, 1778 to 1802

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state of the Yenisei Kyrgyz

The Kidarites, or Kidara Huns, were a dynasty that ruled Bactria and adjoining parts of Central Asia and India in the 4th and 5th centuries. The Kidarites belonged to a complex group of peoples known collectively in India as the Huna, and in Europe as the Chionites (from the Iranian names Xwn/Xyon), and may even be considered as identical to the Chionites. The 5th century Byzantine historian Priscus called them Kidarite Huns, or "Huns who are Kidarites". Chinese annals referred to them as the Ta Yüeh-chih, or Lesser Yüeh-chih. The Huna/Xionite tribes are often linked, albeit controversially, t

1906–1934 Former state in South Saudi Arabia

1953-1970 monarchy in Southeast Asia

The Kingdom of Awsan, commonly known simply as Awsan (; ), was a kingdom in Ancient South Arabia, centered around a wadi called the Wadi Markha. The wadi remains archaeologically unexplored. The name of the capital of Awsan is unknown, but it is assumed to be the tell that is today known as Hagar Yahirr (locally named Ḥajar Asfal), the largest settlement in the wadi. Hagar Yahirr was 15 hectares and surrounded by an irrigated area of nearly 7,000 hectares, indicating that it was a formidable power in its time. The main god of Awsan was called Balu (blw).

Polity in upper Myanmar (1365–1555)

historical region in eastern and central Oman

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autonomous county in Liangshan, Sichuan, China

first Vietnamese dynasty after the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam (939–965)

thumb|right|Qasr al Abd|Qasr Al Abd was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 BC

Arakan Kingdom

ancient kingdom of Kathmandu valley

defunct nineteenth-century kingdom in Indochina

Omani maritime empire (1696–1856)

ruling dynasty of the Ahom Kingdom in Assam (1228–1826)

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ancient Pyu city-state in Southern Burma

Kingdom in northeastern India, established by Loiyumba in 1110, became a princely state of the British Raj from 1891 to 1947, and an independent state from 1947 to 1949

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11th-12th century Islamic dynasty in Yemen