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A duumvirate is an alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders. The term can also be used to describe a state with two different military leaders who both declare themselves to be the sole leader of the state.

The tiny Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an nation
Nation

A nation is a cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community....
 of Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
 is nominally a duumvirate, as it is ruled by two co-prince
Prince

Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
s, one of whom is the President of France, the other of whom is Joan Enric Vives i Sicília
Joan Enric Vives i Sicília

Joan Enric Vives i Sic?lia is an Andorran politician....
, Bishop of the Diocese of Urgell
Diocese of Urgell

The Diocese of Urgell is a Roman Catholic Church ecclesiastical unit in Catalonia, Spain, with origins in the fifth century AD or possibly earlier....
, although the Andorran prime minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
 wields de facto power as the head of government
Head of government

The head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet . In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled Prime Minister, President of the Government, Premier, etc....
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A duumvirate is an alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders. The term can also be used to describe a state with two different military leaders who both declare themselves to be the sole leader of the state.

The tiny Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an nation
Nation

A nation is a cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community....
 of Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
 is nominally a duumvirate, as it is ruled by two co-prince
Prince

Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
s, one of whom is the President of France, the other of whom is Joan Enric Vives i Sicília
Joan Enric Vives i Sicília

Joan Enric Vives i Sic?lia is an Andorran politician....
, Bishop of the Diocese of Urgell
Diocese of Urgell

The Diocese of Urgell is a Roman Catholic Church ecclesiastical unit in Catalonia, Spain, with origins in the fifth century AD or possibly earlier....
, although the Andorran prime minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
 wields de facto power as the head of government
Head of government

The head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet . In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled Prime Minister, President of the Government, Premier, etc....
. Duumvirates in history include the city-states of Carthage
Carthage

Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
, ruled by two mayors (Suffets), and Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
, ruled by two Consul
Roman consul

Consul was the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.During the time of ancient Rome as a Republic, the Consuls were the highest civil and military magistrates, serving as the head of government for the Republic....
s.

In the fictional Middle-earth
Middle-earth

Middle-earth refers to the fictional lands where most of the stories of author J. R. R. Tolkien take place. These stories include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....
 legendarium
Legendarium

Legendary may refer to:*A legend*A hagiography, or study of the lives of saints and other religious figures**The South English Legendary, a Middle English legendary...
 of author J.R.R. Tolkien, the Black Númenóreans
Black Númenóreans

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional prehistory of the world , the Black N?men?reans were men of N?men?rean descent that dwelt on the coasts of Middle-earth below the River Anduin from the late Second Age onwards....
' coastal city of Umbar
Umbar

|In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Umbar is a fictional place, a great haven to the far south of Gondor in Middle-earth.'Umbar' was a name?of unknown meaning?given to the area by its original inhabitants....
 was typically ruled by a duumvirate.

Some political parties have duumvirates, sometimes, such as is the case of Lindsey German
Lindsey German

Lindsey German is the convenor of the United Kingdom anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition and a former member of the central committee of the Trotskyism Socialist Workers Party ....
 and John Rees
John Rees

John Rees may refer to:*John Rees , British political activist *John Rees , American journalist*John Rees , Welsh rugby union international...
 in the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.

See also

  • Diarchy
    Diarchy

    Diarchy , from the Greek "d??", and a??e??, "to rule," is a form of government in which two diarchs are the head of state. In most diarchies, the diarchs hold their position for life and pass the responsibilities and power of the position to their children or family when they die....
     - rule by two people
  • Duoviri
    Duoviri

    In ancient Rome, duumviri was the official style of two joint magistrates. Such pairs of magistrates were appointed at various periods of History of Rome both in Rome itself and in the colonies and municipia....
     - ancient Roman magistracy of two men
  • Triumvirate
    Triumvirate

    The term triumvirate is commonly used to describe a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals. The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case....
     - the equivalent term for three people
  • Decemvirate - the equivalent term for ten people
  • Coregency - rule by two regents