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(3000 BC – 1700 AD) and

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ology.

Southern Europe

Greeks

Historical

* Lists of rulers of Greece *

List of ancient Greek tyrants This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece. Abydus * Daphnis, c. 500 BC under Darius I (pro persian)Herodotus, Historie4.138/ref> * Philiscus, c. 368-360 BC (assassinated) * Iphiades, 360-? BC Agrigentum (Acragas) * Phalaris, 570-554 BC (ov ...

List of kings of Argos Before the establishment of a democracy, the Ancient Greek city-state of Argos was ruled by kings. Most of them are probably mythical or only semi-historical. This list is based on that largely given by Eusebius of Caesarea. An alternative versi ...

Kings of Sparta For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had ...

Kings of Macedon Macedonia, also called Macedon, was ruled continuously by kings from its inception around the middle of the seventh century BC until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 168 BC. Kingship in Macedonia, its earliest attested political institution ...

Attalid dynasty The Kingdom of Pergamon, Pergamene Kingdom, or Attalid kingdom was a Greek state during the Hellenistic period that ruled much of the Western part of Asia Minor from its capital city of Pergamon. It was ruled by the Attalid dynasty (; ). The ...

* List of the kings of Epirus

Mythological

List of kings of Athens Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the Archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by kings. Most of these are probably mythical or only semi-historical. The following lists contain the chronological order of the title King of Athens ...

Italy

* List of Etruscan rulers

Romans

* List of Roman kings *

List of Roman emperors The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title ''Augustus'' to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...

List of Byzantine emperors The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which Fall of Constantinople, fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised s ...

* List of Roman client rulers

Balkans

List of rulers of Illyria The Illyrians (; ) were a conglomeration of Indo-European peoples and tribes in the Balkan Peninsula, Southeastern Europe. They spoke the Illyrian language and practiced a multitude of common religious and cultural practices. Many Illyrian group ...

List of rulers of Thrace and Dacia This article lists kings of Thrace and Dacia, and includes Thracian, Paeonian, Celtic, Dacian, Scythian, Persian or Ancient Greek rulers up to the point of its fall to the Roman Empire, with a few figures from Greek mythology. Mythological *Haemu ...

List of Paionian kings In antiquity, Paeonia or Paionia () was the land and kingdom of the Paeonians (or Paionians; ). The exact original boundaries of Paeonia, like the early history of its inhabitants, are obscure, but it is known that it roughly corresponds to m ...

Northern Europe

List of rulers of the Huns This is a list of kings of the Huns from the arrival of the Huns in Europe in the 360s/370s until the fall of the Hunnic Empire in 469 AD. The following list starts with Balamber, the first known king of the Huns, who is thought to be one of ...

British Isles

Lists of monarchs in the British Isles Lists of monarchs in the British Isles are lists of monarchs of the British Isles, monarchs that have reigned over the various kingdoms and other states that have existed in the British Isles throughout recorded history. They include monarchs of ...

King of Mann The King of Mann () was the title taken between 1237 and 1504 by the various rulers, both sovereign and suzerain, over the Kingdom of Mann – the Isle of Man which is located in the Irish Sea, at the centre of the British Isles. Since 1504, ...

Britain

List of legendary Kings of Britain The following list of legendary kings of Britain () derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' ("the History of the Kings of Britain"). Geoffrey constructed a largely fictional history for the ...

King of the Britons The title King of the Britons (, ) was used (often retrospectively) to refer to a ruler, especially one who might be regarded as the most powerful, among the Celtic Britons, both before and after the period of Roman Britain up until the Norman ...

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King of Wales Latin versions of "King of Wales" () were titles used on a handful of occasions in the Middle Ages. They were very rarely claimed or applied by contemporaries, because Wales in the Middle Ages, Wales, much like Gaelic Ireland, Ireland, usually h ...

List of rulers of Wales This is a list of rulers in Wales (; and neighbouring regions) during the Middle Ages, between . The rulers were monarchs who ruled their respective realms, as well as those who briefly ruled the Principality of Wales. These former territor ...

List of rulers of Gwynedd This is a list of the rulers of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. Many of them were also acclaimed "King of the Britons" or "Prince of Wales". List of kings or princes of Gwynedd House of Cunedda * Cunedda (Cunedda the Imperator) (c. 450 – c. 46 ...

List of monarchs of Powys The kingdom of Powys covered the eastern part of central Wales. Regions included Builth and Gwerthrynion. It is important to note it was occupied by the Irish for a few years by Banadl (usually given as 441–447 AD), and was united with Gwyned ...

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List of kings of the Picts The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle king lists. These are late documents and do not record the dates when the kings reigned. The various surviving lists disagree in places as to the names of kings, and the lengths ...

List of Scottish monarchs The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. According to tradition, Kenneth I MacAlpin () was the founder and first King of the Kingdom of Scotland (although he never held the title historically, being King of the ...

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List of English Monarchs This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the heptarchy, seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the ...

List of kings of Dumnonia The kings of Dumnonia were the rulers of the large Brythonic kingdom of Dumnonia in the south-west of Great Britain during the Sub-Roman and early medieval periods. A list of Dumnonian kings is one of the hardest of the major Dark Age kingdoms ...

List of monarchs of Mercia The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the ...

List of monarchs of Northumbria Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira. The two were first united by King Æthelfrith around the year 604, and except for occasiona ...

List of monarchs of Wessex This is a list of monarchs of the Wessex, Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources, the earlier ones are in many cases obscure. The names are given in modern E ...

Ireland

List of High Kings of Ireland Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had a High King (''Ard Rí'') based at Tara since ancient times, and compilations like the 11th-century ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'', followed by Early Modern works like the ''Annals of the Fou ...

(largely mythological for ancient times) *

Kings of Ailech The Kings of Ailech were the over-kings of the medieval Irish province of Ailech in north-western Ireland. It encompassed the territories of the Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill. After the battle of Cloítech in 789 its kings were exclusi ...

List of kings of Connacht The Kings of Connacht were rulers of the ''cóiced'' (variously translated as portion, fifth, province) of Connacht, which lies west of the River Shannon, Ireland. However, the name only became applied to it in the early medieval era, being named ...

Kings of Uí Maine Uí Maine was the name of an Irish kingdom situated in south Connacht, consisting of all of County Galway east of Athenry, all of southern and central County Roscommon. In prehistory it was believed to have spanned the River Shannon, and in the 8t ...

(semi-historic in ancient times) *

List of kings of Ulster The King of Ulster (Old Irish: ''Rí Ulad'', Modern Irish: ''Rí Uladh'') also known as the King of Ulaid and King of the Ulaid, was any of the kings of the Irish provincial over-kingdom of Ulaid. The title rí in Chóicid, which means "king of ...

* List of kings of Leinster * List of kings of Munster * List of kings of Meath

Germanics

List of Frankish kings The Franks, Germanic peoples that invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, were first led by individuals called dux, dukes and monarch, reguli. The earliest group of Franks that rose to prominence was the Salian Franks, Salian Mero ...

Kings of the Burgundians Kings or King's may refer to: *Kings: The sovereign heads of states and/or nations. *One of several works known as the "Book of Kings": **The Books of Kings part of the Bible, divided into two parts **The ''Shahnameh'', an 11th-century epic Persia ...

List of kings of the Lombards The kings of the Lombards or ''reges Langobardorum'' (singular ''rex Langobardorum'') were the monarchs of the Lombard people from the early 6th century until the Lombardic identity became lost in the 9th and 10th centuries. After 774, the kings ...

Kings of the Angles The Angles were a dominant Germanic tribe in the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, and gave their name to the English, England and to the region of East Anglia. Originally from Angeln, present-day Schleswig-Holstein, a legendary list of their k ...

List of Anglo-Saxon monarchs and kingdoms The Heptarchy was the division of Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries into petty kingdoms, conventionally the seven kingdoms of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, and Wessex. The term originated with t ...

Northern Africa

Magonids The Magonids were a political dynasty of Ancient Carthage from 550 BCE to 340 BCE. The dynasty was first established under Mago I, under whom Carthage became pre-eminent among the Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean. Under the Magon ...

* List of kings of Numidia *

List of kings of Mauretania Mauretania (; ) is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, encompassing northern present-day Morocco, and from the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean in the ...

List of kings of Cyrene Cyrene or Cyrenaica was a Greek colony on the North African coast, in what is now northeastern Libya, founded by Dorian settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) in the 7th century BC. Kings of Cyrene received a recurring posthumous hero cult like ...

Egypt

List of pharaohs The title "pharaoh" is used for those rulers of Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper Egypt, Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, Early Dynastic Period, approximately 3100 BC. However, the sp ...

Abydos King List The Abydos King List, also known as the Abydos Table or the Abydos Tablet, is a list of the names of 76 kings of ancient Egypt, found on a wall of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt. It consists of three rows of 38 cartouches (borders enclos ...

* Karnak king list *

Turin King List The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279–1213 BC), now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. The papyrus is the m ...

Nubia

List of monarchs of Kerma The following is an incomplete list of monarchs of Kerma. The Kerma culture, Kingdom of Kerma existed as an independent state from around 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE. It was absorbed into the vigorous Egyptian Empire but would later reemerge as the Kingdo ...

List of monarchs of Kush The monarchs of Kush were the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush (8th century BCE – 4th century CE), a major civilization in ancient Nubia (roughly corresponding to modern-day Sudan). Kushite power was centralised and unified over the course ...

Ethiopia

List of kings of Axum The kings of Axum ruled an important trading state in the area which is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, from 400 BC to 960 AD. Sources Various regnal lists of Axumite monarchs have survived to the present day via manuscripts or oral traditio ...

Regnal lists of Ethiopia Regnal lists of Ethiopia are recorded lists of monarchs who are claimed by tradition to have ruled Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopia. These lists are often recorded on manuscripts or Oral tradition, orally by Monastery, monasteries and have been passed dow ...

1922 regnal list of Ethiopia The 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia is an official regnal list used by the Emperor of Ethiopia, Ethiopian monarchy which names over 300 monarchs across six Millennium, millennia. The list is partially inspired by older regnal lists of Ethiopia, Et ...

Near East

List of rulers of Saba and Himyar This is a list of rulers of Saba' and Himyar, ancient Arab kingdoms which are now part of present-day Yemen. The kingdom of Saba' became part of the Himyarite Kingdom in the late 3rd century CE. The title Mukarrib (Old South Arabian: , romanize ...

Mesopotamia

List of Mesopotamian dynasties The history of Mesopotamia extends from the Lower Paleolithic period until the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, after which the region came to be known as History of Iraq, Iraq. This list covers dynasties and monarchs of ...

Sumerian King List The ''Sumerian King List'' (abbreviated ''SKL'') or ''Chronicle of the One Monarchy'' is an ancient Composition (language), literary composition written in Sumerian language, Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims ...

List of kings of Akkad The king of Akkad (Akkadian language, Akkadian: , ) was the ruler of the city of Akkad (city), Akkad and Akkadian Empire, its empire, in Ancient Near East, ancient Mesopotamia. In the 3rd millennium BC, from the reign of Sargon of Akkad to the re ...

List of kings of Babylon The king of Babylon (Akkadian language, Akkadian: , later also ) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon and its kingdom, Babylonia, which existed as an independent realm from the 19th century BC to its fall in the 6th century BC. ...

List of Assyrian kings The king of Assyria (Akkadian language, Akkadian: , later ) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its early history, Assyria was ...

List of kings of Mari The city of Mari, Syria, Mari in modern Syria was ruled by several dynasties in the Bronze Age. The history of the city is divided into three kingdoms. First kingdom The ''Sumerian King List (SKL)'' records a dynasty of six kings from Mari enjoying ...

List of rulers of Mitanni List of kings of Mittani from the 18th to the 12th century BCE. All dates must be taken with caution since they are worked out only by comparison with the chronology of other ancient Near Eastern nations. References {{reflist Mitanni Lis ...

Syria and Canaan

* List of Canaanite rulers * List of kings of Ebla * Kings of Ugarit *

List of rulers of Aleppo The monarchs of Aleppo reigned as kings, emirs and sultans of the city and its surrounding region since the later half of the 3rd millennium BC, starting with the kings of Armi, followed by the Amorite dynasty of Yamhad. Muslim rule of the city ...

List of kings of Tyre The King of Tyre is Lucifer the ruler of Tyre, the ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon. The traditional list of 12 kings, with reigns dated to 990–785 BC, is derived from the lost history of Menander of Ephesus as quoted by Josephus ...

Aramean kings Aramean kings were Monarch, kings of the ancient Arameans, and rulers of various Aram (region), Aramean states that existed throughout the Levant and Mesopotamia during the 14th and 13th centuries BC, before being absorbed by various other empire ...

List of Syrian monarchs The title King of Syria appeared in the second century BC in referring to the Seleucid kings who ruled the entirety of the region of Syria. It was also used to refer to Aramean kings in the Greek translations of the Old Testament, mainly indicati ...

List of rulers of Damascus This is a list of rulers of Damascus from ancient times to the present. :''General context: Damascus, History of Damascus''. Aram Damascus *Rezon the Syrian, Rezon I (c. 950 BC) *Tabrimmon *Ben-Hadad I (c. 885 BCE–c. 865 BC) *Hadadezer (c. 865 B ...

List of Nabataean kings The Rulers of Nabataea, reigned over the Nabataean Kingdom (also rendered as ''Nabataea'', ''Nabatea'', or ''Nabathea''), inhabited by the Nabataeans, located in present-day Jordan, south-eastern Syria, southern modern-day Israel, Sinai Egypt, an ...

List of Palmyrene monarchs Below is a list of Palmyrene monarchs, the monarchs that ruled and presided over the city of Palmyra and the subsequent Palmyrene Empire in the 3rd century AD, and the later vassal princes of the Al Fadl dynasty which ruled over the city in the 14t ...

Jews

Kings of Israel and Judah The article deals with the biblical and historical kings of the Land of Israel— Abimelech of Sichem, the three kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and those of its successor states, Israel and Judah, followed in the Second Temple per ...

Kings of Judah The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930s BC, 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) ...

* Kings of Hasmonean Judea

Anatolia

List of Hittite kings The dating and sequence of Hittite Empire, Hittite kings is compiled by scholars from fragmentary records, supplemented by the finds in Hattusa, Ḫattuša and other administrative centers of cuneiform tablets and more than 3,500 seal impressions ...

List of Neo-Hittite kings The Neo-Hittite states are sorted according to their geographical position. All annual details are BC. The contemporary sources name the language they are written in. Those can be: * Luwian (always using Luwian hieroglyphs) * Hittite * Aramai ...

List of kings of Urartu This article lists the kings of Urartu (Ararat or Kingdom of Van), an Iron Age kingdom centered on Lake Van in eastern Asia Minor. Kings See also *List of Mesopotamian dynasties References *Boris Piotrovskii, ''The Ancient Civilization of Ura ...

* List of Kings of Lydia * List of Lycian monarchs *

List of rulers of Cappadocia This article lists the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic princes and kings of Cappadocia, an ancient region in central Anatolia. Independent princes of Cappadocia, 331 BC – 250s BC *Ariarathes I of Cappadocia, Ariarathes I, 331–322 BC The hit ...

* List of rulers of Paphlagonia *

List of rulers of Commagene Commagene was a small Irano-Hellenistic kingdom in southern Anatolia near Antioch, which began life as a tributary state of the Seleucid Empire and later became an independent kingdom, before eventually being annexed by the Roman Empire in 72. Sa ...

List of monarchs of Pontus This is a list of monarchs of Pontus, an ancient Hellenistic kingdom of Persian origin in Asia Minor. Monarchs of Pontus References {{Ancient Greece topics Pontus Pontus or Pontos may refer to: * Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, ...

List of rulers of Bithynia This is a list of kings of Bithynia, an ancient kingdom in northwestern Anatolia. Before Zipoetes I of Bithynia assumed the Greek title of ''Basileus'' ("king") in 297 BCE, the positions of him and his predecessors are variously described as "pri ...

* List of kings of Galatia

Caucasus

List of Armenian kings This is a list of the monarchs of Armenia, rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Kingdom of Armenia (336 BC – AD 428), the medieval Bagratid Armenia, Kingdom of Armenia (884–1045), various lesser Armenian kingdoms (908–1170) ...

List of Georgian monarchs This is a list of kings and queens regnant of the kingdoms of Georgia before Russian annexation in 1801–1810. For more comprehensive lists, and family trees, of Georgian monarchs and rulers see Lists of Georgian monarchs. Kings of Iberia ...

Iran

* List of rulers of Pre-Achaemenid kingdoms of Iran *

List of rulers of Elam The kings of Elam were the rulers of Elam, an ancient civilization and kingdom in south-western Iran. The earliest known Elamite dynasty was the Awan dynasty, which came to power in the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), Early Dynastic period. ...

List of kings of Persia The monarchs of Iran ruled for over two and a half millennia, beginning as early as the 7th century BC and enduring until the 20th century AD. The earliest Iranian king is generally considered to have been either Deioces of the Median dynasty ...

List of Seleucid rulers The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (; , ', "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Seleucid Empire based in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded by Seleucus I Nicator, a general ...

List of Parthian kings The Parthian, or Arsacid, monarchs were the rulers of Iran from their victories against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in the 140s BC (although they had ruled a smaller kingdom in the region of Parthia for roughly a century at that point, found ...

* List of rulers of Parthian sub-kingdoms *

Kings of Characene Characene (Ancient Greek: Χαρακηνή), also known as Mesene (Μεσσήνη) or Meshan, was a kingdom founded by the Iranian Hyspaosines located at the head of the Persian Gulf mostly within modern day Iraq. Its capital, Charax Spasinou (� ...

List of shahanshahs of the Sasanian Empire The House of Sasan, Sasanian monarchs were the rulers of Iran after their victory against their former suzerain, the Parthian Empire, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224. At its height, the Sasanian Empire spanned from Turkey and Rhodes in the west ...

Far East

* List of Emperors of Japan *

List of monarchs of Vietnam This article lists the monarchs of Vietnam. Under the emperor at home, king abroad system used by later dynasties, Vietnamese monarchs would use the title of ''emperor'' (皇帝, Hoàng đế; or other equivalents) domestically, and the more com ...

Monarchy of Cambodia The monarchy of Cambodia is the constitutional monarchy of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The king of Cambodia () is the head of state and head of the ruling Royal House of Norodom. In the contemporary period, the king's power has been limited t ...

* List of early and legendary monarchs of Burma

Indian Subcontinent

List of Indian monarchs This article is a list of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents. The earliest Indian rulers are known from epigraphical sources found in archeological ins ...

List of Tamil monarchs This is a list of Tamils, ethnically Tamil and predominantly Tamil language, Tamil speaking monarchs, who ruled in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka and South East Asia. The ancient Tamil monarchy was largely hereditary and supported by nume ...

* List of monarchs of Kashmir *

List of monarchs of Magadha The Kingdom of Magadha, later known as the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and later empire in ancient north India. Many houses ruled the kingdom and its empire over the centuries until it was defeated by the Satavahana Empire in . The history ...

* List of Manipuri kings *

List of rulers of Assam The history of Assam is the history of a confluence of people from the east, west, south and the north; the confluence of the Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan), Tai and Indo-Aryan cultures. Although invaded over the centuries, it wa ...

List of rulers of Malwa The Kingdom of Malwa (disambiguation), Kingdom of Malwa was ruled by kings discontinuously from 350 to 1462. Later Gupta dynasty (575–606) * Mahasenagupta (575–601) * Devagupta (601–606) Paramara dynasty (c. 800–1305 CE) Accord ...

List of rulers of Bengal This is a list of rulers of Bengal. For much of History of Bengal, its history, Bengal was split up into several independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In Kingdoms of Ancient India, ancient times, Bengal consisted of the ...

List of rulers of Odisha The land of Odisha or former Kalinga (historical region), Kalinga has undergone several changes in terms of its boundaries since ancient ages. It was also known by different names like Odra kingdom, Odra Desha, Kalinga (historical kingdom), Ka ...

* Legendary early Chola kings * List of rulers of Rajasthan * List of rulers of Mithila *

List of Sri Lankan monarchs The monarchs of Sri Lanka, also referred to as the Sinhalese monarchy, were the heads of state and rulers of the Sinhala Kingdoms located in present-day Sri Lanka, from 543 BCE (according to chronicles) until its abolition in 1815 CE. The Sinha ...

* List of Sinhalese queens * List of Lunar dynasty kings * List of Solar dynasty kings *

List of Hindu empires and dynasties The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th ...

China

List of Chinese monarchs The Chinese sovereign, Chinese monarchs were the rulers of History of China, China during History of China#Ancient China, Ancient and History of China#Imperial China, Imperial periods. The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography a ...

List of Chinese leaders In this article, "Greater China, China" refers to the modern territories controlled by the China, People's Republic of China (which controls Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) and the Taiwan, Republic of China (which controls Free area of the Rep ...

Kings of the Han dynasty After Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and proclaimed himself emperor of the Han dynasty, he followed the practice of Xiang Yu and enfeoffed many generals, noblemen, and imperial relatives as kings (), the same title borne by the sovereigns of the Sh ...

List of emperors of the Han dynasty The Emperor of China, emperors of the Han dynasty were the supreme heads of government during the second Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China; the Han dynasty (202 BC220 AD) followed the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

* List of emperors of China's Northern Dynasties * List of emperors of China's Southern Dynasties *

List of emperors of the Tang dynasty This is a list of Emperor of China, emperors of the Tang dynasty (618–690, 705–907) of China. Tang monarchs like Emperor Taizong of Tang were also addressed to as the Khan of Heaven (''Tian Kehan'') by Turkic peoples. List of emperors ''T ...

List of emperors of the Liao dynasty Emperors table There were nine emperors of the Liao dynasty. The Liao dynasty was a Khitan-led dynasty of China that at its height ruled over what is now Shanxi, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia provinces in China, as w ...

List of emperors of the Ming dynasty The Emperor of China, emperors of the Ming dynasty ruled over China proper from 1368 to 1644 during the History of China#Late imperial China, late imperial era of China (960–1912). Members of the Ming dynasty continued to rule a series of rump ...

List of Yuan emperors A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of Northern Yuan khans The following is a list of khagans of the Northern Yuan Dynasty (1368–1388) and the Period of small khans (Döchin Dörben, 1388–1635) based in Northern China and the Mongolian Plateau. Northern Yuan Dynasty Period of small khans See ...

List of emperors of the Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial Chinese dynasty and the last imperial dynasty of China. It was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Shenyang in what is now Northeast China, but only captured Beijing and suc ...

Korea

List of monarchs of Korea This is a list of monarchs of Korea, arranged by dynasty. Names are romanized according to the South Korean Revised Romanization of Korean. McCune–Reischauer romanizations may be found at the articles about the individual monarchs. Gojoseon G ...

* List of legendary monarchs of Korea (mythological) * List of Mahan confederacy monarchs (mythological) * List of Gija Joseon monarchs (mythological) * List of Wiman Joseon monarchs

Americas

Maya

* Rulers of Calakmul (no actual king-list; must be dug out of text) * List of lords of Caracol * List of rulers of Copan * List of the rulers of Dos Pilas * Rulers of Dos Pilas *

Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj The Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj was a state in the highlands of modern-day Guatemala which was founded by the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) Maya in the thirteenth century, and which expanded through the fifteenth century until it was conquered by Span ...

(no actual king-list; must be dug out of history) * Rulers of Motul de San José * Rulers of Palenque * List of rulers of Piedras Negras * Rulers of Quiriguá * Rulers of Tikal * Yaxchilan rulers

Valley of Mexico

List of rulers of Tenochtitlan This is a list of Mesoamerican rulers of the ''altepetl'' of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) from its foundation in 1325 until the end of the line of indigenous rulers. From onwards, the rulers of Tenochtitlan were monarchs and used the title ' ...

List of rulers of Tetzcoco This is a list of Mesoamerican ''tlatoque'' of the ''altepetl'' of Tetzcoco from the first ''tlatoani'' in 1298 to the end of the line of indigenous rulers. From the early 15th century to 1521, Tetzcoco was one of the three leading members of the ...

* List of rulers of Tlacopan

Incas

* Rulers of Cusco and the Inca Empire

References

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