- This article is on royal styles in history; for "Great King" in fiction See Great King (Myst)
Great King and the equivalent in many languages is a semantic model for historical titles of
Monarchs, suggesting an elevated status among the host of
Kings and minor
Princes. This title is most usually associated with the kings of
Persia under the
Achaemenid dynasty whose vast empire lasted for 300 years up to the year 330 BC.
In pre-classical
Antiquity, there was a tradition of reciprocally using such addresses between powers as a way of diplomatically recognizing each-other as major, such as the
Hittites,
Mitanni and the
Pharaoh of Egypt.
The case of
Maharaja ("Great Raja", i.e. great King/Prince, in
Sanskrit and
Hindi) on the
Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the
Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by "title inflation" as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style. This is often followed by the emergence of one or more new, more exclusive and prestigious styles, as in this case
Maharajadhiraja ("Great King of Kings")
The aforementioned Indian style
Maharajadhiraja is also an example of an alternative semantic model for similar 'higher' royal styles such as
King of Kings. Alternatively, a more idiomatic style may develop into an equally prestigious tradition of titles, because of the shining example of the original – thus various styles of
Emperors trace back to the Roman
Imperator (strictly speaking a republican military command) and the family surname
Caesar (turned into an imperial title since
Diocletian's
Tetrarchy).
As the conventional use of "King" and its equivalents to render various other monarchical styles illustrates, there are many roughly equivalent styles, each of which may sporn a "Great
X" variant, either unique or becoming a rank in a corresponding tradition; in this context "Grand" is equivalent to "Great" and sometimes interchangeable if convention does not firmly prescribe one of the two. Examples include:
In fact, there are even cases of such a natural style being conventionally uses to render an original style that does not conform to the semantic model, as in "
Great Sultan".
See also
The Great King is an important figure in D'ni legend, whose coming was prophesied long before he was actually born. Even during his lifetime he was a legendary figure. His importance was not in who he actually was, but rather in who the prophecies made him be.
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monarch (see sovereignty) is a type of ruler or head of state. Monarchs almost always inherit their titles and are rulers for life; that is, they have no term limit. Historically monarchs have been more or less absolute rulers.
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monarch (see sovereignty) is a type of ruler or head of state. Monarchs almost always inherit their titles and are rulers for life; that is, they have no term limit. Historically monarchs have been more or less absolute rulers.
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prince, from the Latin root princeps, is used for a member of the highest ranks of the aristocracy or the nobility.
The title is given only to males and has several fundamentally different meanings, of which one is generic to the word, and several types of titles.
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BCE Zayandeh River Civilization Sialk civilization 7500–1000 Jiroft civilization (Aratta) Proto-Elamite civilization Bactria-Margiana Complex Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kingdom of Mannai Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian
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Achaemenid Empire (Persian: هخامنشیان IPA: [haχɒmaneʃijɒn]) (559 BC–330 BC), or
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Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages[1]. The goal of the modern day critical ancient historian is objectivity.
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Hittites were an ancient people from Kaneš who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URUḪattuša) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC.
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Ancient Mesopotamia
Euphrates Tigris
Cities / Empires
Sumer: Uruk ' Ur ' Eridu
Kish ' Lagash ' Nippur
Akkadian Empire: Akkad
Babylon ' Isin ' Susa
Assyria: Assur Nineveh
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Dynasties of Pharaohs
in Ancient Egypt
Predynastic Egypt
Protodynastic Period
Early Dynastic Period
1st 2nd
Old Kingdom
3rd 4th 5th 6th
First Intermediate Period
7th 8th 9th 10th
11th (Thebes only)
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Maharani redirects here. For the music album by Nicolette Palikat, see Maharani (album).
The word
Mahārāja (also spelled
maharajah) is Sanskrit for "great king" or "high king" (a karmadharaya from
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Writing system: Devanagari script
Official status
Official language of: India
Fiji (as Hindustani)
Regulated by: Central Hindi Directorate (only in India)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-1: hi
ISO 639-2:
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Gupta (Hindi: गुप्ता) is a surname of Indian origin. Gupta is a common surname in India, but it is uncertain whether there was one parent clan from which all families with Gupta surname branched. According to the historian R. C.
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King of Kings is a lofty title that has been used by several monarchies (usually empires in the informal sense of great powers) throughout history, and in many cases the literal title meaning "King of Kings", i.e.
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emperor is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the feminine form. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor (empress consort) or a woman who is a ruling monarch (
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The Latin word imperator was a title originally roughly equivalent to commander during the period of the Roman Republic. It later went on to become a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as part of their cognomen.
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Caesar (plural Caesars), Latin: Cæsar (plural Cæsares), is a title of imperial character. It derives from the cognomen of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator.
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Diocletian
Emperor of the Roman Empire
Diocletian
Reign November 20 284 - 286 (alone);
286 - May 1 305 (as Augustus of the East, with Maximian as Augustus of the West)
Full name Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus
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Tetrarchy (Greek: "leadership of four people") can be applied to any system of government where power is divided between four individuals but is rarely used. The most famous Tetrarchy is that instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293 and lasted until c. 313.
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Grosswojwod (great voivod, great duke) is the German version, official under the Habsburg monarchy in the case of the present Serbian autonomous region Vojvodina, of an original Slavonic (more precisely, Serbo-Croatian) title of the comparative semantic model (see Great King),
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Great Sultan is one of various informal titles such as Grand Turk, used to refer to the Ottoman Sultan, known in Ottoman Turkish as Padishah, Hünkar or Hakan, the sovereign of the Ottoman dynasty.
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A
high king is a king who holds a position of seniority over a group of other kings, without the title of Emperor; compare King of Kings.
Rulers who have been termed "high king" (by their contemporaries or by modern observers) include:
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Bartholomew Holzhauser (Laugna, 24 August, 1613 - Bingen, 20 May, 1658) was a German priest, founder of a religious community and visionary and writer of prophecies.
Early life
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The notion of the Son of Perdition or the Son of Sin can be found in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and John 17:12 and is a name commonly associated with the Antichrist and the biblical term of the Devil's Advocate mentioned in 1 and 2 John.
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