A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in...

A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe...

The Ottoman Empire had a number of tributary and vassal states throughout its history. Its tributary states would regularly send tribute to the Ottoman...

exchange for particular rights. Vassal may also refer to: Vassal state, a state that is subordinate to another state Vassal Engine, a free software engine...

pinyin: Chǔ; Wade–Giles: Ch'u, Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early...

party is called a vassal, vassal state or tributary state, the dominant party is called a suzerain. The rights and obligations of a vassal are called vassalage...

client state are satellite state, associated state, and dominion, condominium, self-governing colony, and neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state, puppet...

Christianity was made the state religion of the kingdom. Starting in the early 6th century AD, the kingdom's position as a Sassanian vassal state was changed into...

the Zhou ancestors. In the Yellow River valley, of the earliest vassal states, the state of Cai (蔡) was founded following a grant of land by the conquering...

A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. They...

Thracian kingdom, also called the Sapaean kingdom, was an ancient Thracian state in the southeastern Balkans that existed from the middle of the 1st century...

Sultanate of Kano was deposed and replaced by a new emirate which became a vassal state of the Sokoto Caliphate. During and after the British colonial period...

A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create...

general Megabyzus forced the Macedonian king Amyntas I to make his kingdom a vassal of the Achaemenids. In 492 BC, following the Ionian Revolt, the Persian...

Nasir, Mukūk (1843–c.1860) Algeria Ottoman Algeria (complete list) – Vassal state, 1515–1830 For details see the Ottoman Empire under west Asia French...

Kumul Khanate – a vassal state to Qing dynasty and Republic of China, abolished in 1930 Kunduz Khanate Maimana Khanate Oghuz Yabgu State Qasim Khanate (hence...

Bloc Finlandisation Neo-colony Protectorate Puppet state Sister republic Soviet empire Vassal state Betts, R. R. (January 1945). "The European Satellite...

Administration" and the Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement each state that its goal is to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount (Mount Moriah)...

Mukūk (1800–1820) Algeria Regency of Algiers (Sultans / Governors) – Vassal state, 1671–1830 Hadji Mustapha, Dey (1700–1710) Deli Ibrahim, Dey (1710) Ali...

assigned to each vilayet. The idea of vilayet originated from the Seljuk vassal state (Uç Beyliği) in central Anatolia. Over the years the Empire became an...

Kingdom: Second Shō dynasty – Tributary state of the Ming dynasty, 1429–1644 Shō Nei, King (1589–1620) Vassal state of Satsuma Domain, 1609–1872 Shō Hō,...

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation,...

A night-watchman state, or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend...

Medieval times in Europe, the state was organized on the principle of feudalism, and the relationship between lord and vassal became central to social organization...

and Southeast Asia despite its small size. The Ryukyu Kingdom became a vassal state of the Satsuma Domain of Japan after the invasion of Ryukyu in 1609 but...

Zheng (/dʒɛŋ/; Chinese: 鄭; Old Chinese: *[d]reng-s) was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BCE) located in the centre of ancient...

an 'attached state' (附庸; fùyōng, a minor state with limited self-rule under the authority of another liege-lord) to a major vassal state with full autonomy...

establish Judah as an Assyrian vassal state controlling the valuable olive industry. Judah prospered as a vassal state (despite a disastrous rebellion...

King (1842–1857) Álvaro XIII, King (1857–1859) Peter V, King (1859–1891) vassal to Portugal: 1888–1914 Álvaro XIV, King (1891–1896) Henrique IV, King (1896–1901)...

the collapse of the Pagan Empire in 1287: 205–206, 209  as a nominal vassal state of the Sukhothai Kingdom and of the Mongol Yuan dynasty. The kingdom...