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families were called princes when they ruled tiny quasi-sovereign medieval principalities. After their demesnes were absorbed by
Muscovy, they settled at the Moscow court and were authorised to continue with their princely titles.
1698:(also known as the Belgrade Pashaluk). The obor-knez was senior chief and responsible for his district's people and was their spokesman (intermediary) in direct relations with the Pasha, though usually through the
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was the only hereditary title that was officially recognised and officially used in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. Notable holders of the title
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1001:. From the mid-18th century onwards, the title Velikii Kniaz was revived to refer to (male-line) sons and grandsons of Russian Emperors. See
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1423:) titles, for Bosnian rulers. One of the first such ruler, recorded in historic documents and later historiography, was
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and other Slavic titles as "duke" of "prince" can be traced back to
Medieval Lithuania and Poland. The rulers of the
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758:. Later, with the development of feudal statehood, it became the title of a ruler of a state, and among East Slavs (
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Hrvatskoga ili Srpskoga Jezika
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702:'s coronation in 1025. Similarly, the ruler of the
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40:(852–889), the title of the Bulgarian monarchs was
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1980:Types on Russian Coins of the XIV and XV Centuries
1834:"князь". "Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary" online
1694:(district of a group of villages) in the Ottoman
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732:). Medieval German records, however, translated
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742:(king) until at least the 15th century.
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1609:(књаз) was the ruler title used by the
1251:became a hereditary noble title in the
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1926:God's Playground A History of Poland
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501:inscription, found on the island of
440:"my lord"), and the Catholic title "
251:The female form transliterated from
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1953:Historical Dictionary of Lithuania
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1158:Velikoye Knyazhestvo Finlyandskoye
964:Kneaze Alexey Michailovitz, 1664 (
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1730:independent since 1817, becoming
1680:, held by local Christian chiefs.
1267:became a recognised title in the
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1956:. Scarecrow Press. p. 119.
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831:(Великий Князь) (translated as
444:" for a priest. Today the term
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790:) traditionally translated as
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2160:Croatian Biographical Lexicon
2131:Croatian Biographical Lexicon
2102:Croatian Biographical Lexicon
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1600:
1329:(градоначелник) (Serbia) and
1147:Великое Княжество Финляндское
1032:patrilineally descended from
652:The tradition of translating
366:. In Serbo-Croatian and some
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1574:)) and went by the title of
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1510:Duchy of Pannonian Croatia
1499:
1407:) was a title used, along
1243:As noted above, the title
821:soon in 913. According to
635:, a form also borrowed by
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1896:Frost, Robert I. (2018).
1881:Oxford English Dictionary
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1595:Macedonian historiography
1514:Duchy of Littoral Croatia
1482:Radojević-Mirković family
1464:is equivalent to that of
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668:, which was rendered as
1923:Davies, Norman (2005).
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1726:(Кнежевина Србија) was
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1425:Stephen, Duke of Bosnia
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1696:Sanjak of Smederevo
1490:Šantić noble family
1337:(кмет) (Bulgaria).
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