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tsar

Also known as tsaria, car, tsarya, tsarevitch, csar, czar

thumb|Simeon I of Bulgaria, the first Bulgarian tsar and the first person who bore the title "tsar", by [[Alphonse Mucha|alt=Alphonse Mucha's The Slav Epic cycle No.4: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (1923)]] thumb|Reception of the Tsar of Russia in the Moscow Kremlin, by [[Ivan Makarov]] thumb|Crowning of Stefan Dušan, [[Emperor of the Serbs, as tsar, by Paja Jovanović]]

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A tsar was a title used by rulers in Eastern Europe and Russia, most famously in the Russian Empire and medieval Bulgaria and Serbia. The title carried the prestige of imperial authority and was used by some of the region's most powerful monarchs to assert their sovereignty and legitimacy.

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male form of label: tsar
female form of label: carewna
Commons category: Tsars
native label: Цьръ
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Meaning in Slavic languages
Bulgaria
Serbia
Russia
Montenegro
Metaphorical uses
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Tsar (; also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; ; ; ) is a title historically used by some Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word caesar, which was intended to mean emperor in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official—but was usually considered by Western Europeans to be equivalent to "king".