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A dynasty is a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations. A dynasty is also often called a "house
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
", e.g. the House of Saud
House of Saud

House of Saud is the royal family of the Saudi Arabia. The modern nation of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, though the roots and influence for the House of Saud had been planted in the Arabian Peninsula several centuries earlier....
 or House of Habsburg. In the histories of 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....
, much of Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and some of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, ruling
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
 and noble
Nobility

Nobility is a government-privileged title which may be either hereditary or for a lifetime. Titles of nobility exist today in many countries although it is usually associated with present or former monarchies....
 houses have usually been patrilineal
Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....
; inheritance
Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, Title s, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies....
 and kinship
Kinship

Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. In anthropology the kinship system includes people related both by descent and marriage, while usage in biology includes descent and mating....
 being predominantly viewed and legally calculated through descent from a common ancestor in the male line. Often, however, if the male lineage died out, descendants through females (and sometimes the females themselves) were recognized as entitled to inherit the dynasty's realm
Realm

A realm is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler.The Old French word reaume, modern French royaume, was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century....
s and/or wealth.

The term "dynasty" is also used to explain the era
Era

An era is a commonly used word for long period of time. When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic era from 252 Ma?66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event....
 during which a family reign
Reign

A reign is the term used to describe the length of a monarch is the supreme leader over a kingdom. No time limit exists on reigns, nor is there a term of office....
ed, as well as events, trends and artifacts of that period, e.g.






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A dynasty is a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations. A dynasty is also often called a "house
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
", e.g. the House of Saud
House of Saud

House of Saud is the royal family of the Saudi Arabia. The modern nation of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, though the roots and influence for the House of Saud had been planted in the Arabian Peninsula several centuries earlier....
 or House of Habsburg. In the histories of 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....
, much of Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and some of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, ruling
Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty is a familial designation, or family name of sorts, used by Royal family. It generally represents the members of a family in various senior and junior or cadet branches, who are loosely related but not necessarily of the same immediate kin....
 and noble
Nobility

Nobility is a government-privileged title which may be either hereditary or for a lifetime. Titles of nobility exist today in many countries although it is usually associated with present or former monarchies....
 houses have usually been patrilineal
Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....
; inheritance
Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, Title s, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies....
 and kinship
Kinship

Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. In anthropology the kinship system includes people related both by descent and marriage, while usage in biology includes descent and mating....
 being predominantly viewed and legally calculated through descent from a common ancestor in the male line. Often, however, if the male lineage died out, descendants through females (and sometimes the females themselves) were recognized as entitled to inherit the dynasty's realm
Realm

A realm is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler.The Old French word reaume, modern French royaume, was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century....
s and/or wealth.

The term "dynasty" is also used to explain the era
Era

An era is a commonly used word for long period of time. When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic era from 252 Ma?66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event....
 during which a family reign
Reign

A reign is the term used to describe the length of a monarch is the supreme leader over a kingdom. No time limit exists on reigns, nor is there a term of office....
ed, as well as events, trends and artifacts of that period, e.g. "Ming
Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
 dynasty vase". In such cases, often the "dynasty" is dropped but the name may be used adjectivally, e.g. "Tudor style
Tudor style architecture

The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons....
", "Ottoman
Ottoman Dynasty

File:Barber cape.jpgThe Ottoman Dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan....
 expansion", "Romanov
Romanov

The House of Romanov was the second and last monarchy dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917. From 1762 until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire was ruled for five generations by a line of the House of Oldenburg descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp....
 decadence". Historians traditionally consider a state's history within a framework of successive dynasties, particularly with such nations as China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
 and the Persian Empire
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
. Much of European political history was dominated, successively and together, by dynasties such as the Carolingian
Carolingian

File:Charlemagne denier Mayence 812 814.jpgThe Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century....
s, the Capetians
Capetian dynasty

The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
, the Habsburg
Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
s, the Stuart
House of Stuart

The House of Stuart, also known as the House of Stewart is an important European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century....
s, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs. Until the nineteenth century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate function of a monarch was to aggrandize his dynasty, that is, to increase the territory, wealth and power of family members.

Dynastic names may not be the same as individual surnames, in that titles are customarily used instead. Or the name of the dynasty may follow the throne by descending through females, e.g. the current heads of the dynasties of Grimaldi
House of Grimaldi

The House of Grimaldi is associated with the history of the Republic of Genoa and of the Principality of Monaco....
, Habsburg, Orange
House of Orange-Nassau

The House of Orange-Nassau , a branch of the European House of Nassau, has played a central role in the political life of the Netherlands — and at times in Europe — since William I of Orange organized the Dutch revolt against Spain rule, which after the Eighty Years' War led to an independent Dutch state....
 and Romanov actually descend paternally from, respectively, the houses of Polignac (Chalençon)
Polignac

Polignac is the name of several communes in France:* Polignac, Charente-Maritime* Polignac, Haute-Loire, in the Haute-Loire d?partement, dominated by the fortress Ch?teau de Polignac with its square donjon tower, 32 m tall...
, Lorraine, Lippe and Oldenburg
House of Oldenburg

The House of Oldenburg is a North German dynasty and one of Europe's most influential Royal Houses.It first became royal when Count Christian I of Denmark of Oldenburg became chosen King of Denmark in 1448, and has been the Danish Royal House ever since....
. Also, often a new dynastic name does not signal an altogether different family, so much as a new branch of the dynasty that has obtained the throne: kings of the House of Anjou, Bourbon
House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
, Valois and Burgundy
House of Burgundy

The House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
 dynasties were all male-line descendants of Hugh Capet of France
Hugh Capet of France

Hugh Capet was the first King of France of the eponymous Capetian dynasty from his election to succeed the Carolingian Louis V of France in 987 until his death....
 and are collectively called Capetians
Capetian dynasty

The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
. Thus, by a royal decree
Letters patent

Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government, granting an office, right, government-granted monopoly, title, or status to a person or to some entity such as a corporation....
 of 1960 the British ruling dynasty remains the House of Windsor, despite the present Queen having married Philip Mountbatten
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom since 20 November 1947, and her prince consort since 6 February 1952....
, who is by birth a prince of the reigning Danish dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl?cksburg , from Gl?cksburg in northernmost Germany, is a line of the House of Oldenburg that is descended from Christian III of Denmark....
, itself a branch of the House of Oldenburg
House of Oldenburg

The House of Oldenburg is a North German dynasty and one of Europe's most influential Royal Houses.It first became royal when Count Christian I of Denmark of Oldenburg became chosen King of Denmark in 1448, and has been the Danish Royal House ever since....
, of which the Romanovs descended from Peter III
Peter III of Russia

Peter III was Emperor of Russian Empire for six months in 1762. According to most historians, he was mentally immature and very pro-Prussian, which made him an unpopular leader....
 were also agnatic descendants.

Dynasties may change due to war, but also when a king fails to produce an heir, sometimes resulting in a maternal relative's succession. The dynasty usually then takes the name of that successor's paternal family name.

Dynasts

A ruler in a dynasty is sometimes referred to as a dynast, but this term is also used to describe any member of a reigning family who retains succession
Order of succession

An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant....
 rights to a throne. For example, following his abdication, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Edward VIII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the dominion, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V of the United Kingdom, until his abdication on 11 December 1936....
 ceased to be a dynastic member of the House of Windsor
House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house was created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by George V by a royal proclamation in 1917....
.

A "dynastic marriage
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
" is one that complies with monarchical house law
House law

House law or House laws are rules that govern a royal family or dynasty in matters of eligibility for order of succession, membership in a dynasty, exercise of a Regent, or entitlement to dynastic order of precedence, titles and style ....
 restrictions, so that the descendants are eligible to inherit the throne and/or other royal
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 privileges. For instance, the 2002 marriage of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange , Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of House of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg, is the eldest son of Beatrix of the Netherlands and the heir apparent to the Dutch monarchy....
 to Máxima Zorreguieta was dynastic, and their eldest child
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau , is the first child of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, the heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, and Princess M?xima of the Netherlands, his spouse....
 is expected to eventually inherit the Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 crown. But the marriage of his younger brother Prince Friso to Mabel Wisse Smit in 2003 lacked government support and parliamentary approval. Thus Friso forfeited his place in the order of succession
Order of succession

An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant....
, lost his title as a Prince of the Netherlands, and his children have no dynastic rights.

In historical and monarchist
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 references to formerly reigning families, dynastic describes a family member who would have succession rights if the monarchy's rules were still in force. For example, after the 1914 assassinations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria and Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austria-Hungary throne....
 and his morganatic
Morganatic marriage

A morganatic marriage is a type of marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage....
 wife Sophie von Hohenberg
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the morganatic wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Their assassination sparked World War I....
, their son Max
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg

Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg was the eldest son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Hungary, Heir Presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg....
 was bypassed for the Austrian throne because he was not a Habsburg
Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
 dynast. Even since abolition of the Austrian monarchy, Max and his descendants have not been considered the rightful pretender
Pretender

A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. The English word :wikt:pretend comes from the French word pr?tendre, meaning "to put forward, to profess or claim"....
s by Austrian monarchists, nor have they claimed that position.

The term "dynast" is sometimes used to refer to agnatic
Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....
 descendants of a realm
Realm

A realm is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler.The Old French word reaume, modern French royaume, was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century....
's monarchs, and sometimes to those who hold succession rights through cognatic
Matrilineality

Matrilineality is a system in which lineage is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors.A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a Kinship in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female....
 royal descent. The term can therefore describe overlapping but distinct sets of people. For example, David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley

David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley , known professionally as David Linley, a bespoke furniture maker and chairman of Christie's UK, the international auction house....
, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
 through her late sister, Princess Margaret, is in the line of succession to the British crown, and in that sense is a British dynast. Yet he is not a male-line
Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....
 member of the royal family
Royal family

A royal family is the extended family of a king or queen regnant. The term "imperial family" more appropriately describes the extended family of an emperor or empress regnant, while the terms "ducal family", "grand ducal family" or "princely family" are more appropriate in reference to the relatives of a reigning duke, grand duke, or prince....
, and is therefore not a dynast of the House of Windsor.

On the other hand, the German aristocrat
Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
 Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (born 1954), although a male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom
George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
, is a remote descendant with no legal British titles and styles (although he is entitled to re-claim the once-royal dukedom
Duke

A duke is a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch, and historically controlling a duchy or a dukedom. The title comes from the Latin language Dux Bellorum, which had the sense of "military commander" and was employed by both the Germanic peoples themselves and by the Ancient Rome authors covering them to r...
 of Cumberland
Duke of Cumberland

Duke of Cumberland is a peerage title that was conferred upon junior members of the British royal family, named after the county of Cumberland....
). Yet he was born in the line of succession
Order of succession

An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant....
 to the British crown and is bound by the Royal Marriages Act 1772
Royal Marriages Act 1772

The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain which made it illegal for any member of the British royal family under the age of 25 to marry without the consent of the reigning monarch....
. Thus, in 1999 he requested and obtained formal permission from Elizabeth II to marry Princess Caroline of Monaco
Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Caroline, Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco , formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover is the eldest child of the late Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and his wife, the former American film actress Grace Kelly....
. But immediately upon marriage he forfeited his (remote) claim to the British throne because she is a Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 and Ernst August is also bound by the English Act of Settlement 1701
Act of Settlement 1701

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England, originally filed in 1700, and passed in 1701, to settle the Order of succession to the List of English monarchs on the Electress Sophia of Hanover a granddaughter of James I of England and her Protestantism heirs....
 which permanently deprives dynasts of succession rights upon marriage to a Roman Catholic. However, the couple's daughter, Princess Alexandra of Hanover (born 1999), remains a legal dynast of both the United Kingdom and Monaco, not to mention her father's claim to dynasticity as pretender
Pretender

A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. The English word :wikt:pretend comes from the French word pr?tendre, meaning "to put forward, to profess or claim"....
 to the former royal crown of Hanover
Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover was established in October of 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III of the United Kingdom to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic wars....
.

Dynasties by region


Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....


Chad
Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west....
  • Duguwa dynasty
    Duguwa Dynasty

    The Duguwa dynasty is the line of kings of the Kanem Empire prior to the rise of the Seyfawa dynasty in 1081....
     (c. 700 - c. 1075)
  • Sayfawa dynasty
    Sayfawa dynasty

    The Sayfawa dynasty is the name of the kings of the Kanem Empire-Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem Region in western Chad, and then, after 1396, in Borno State ....
     (c. 1075 - 1846)


Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  • 1st dynasty
    First dynasty of Egypt

    The first dynasty of Ancient Egypt is often combined with the Second dynasty of Egypt under the group title, Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. At that time the capital was Thinis....
     (c. 3050 - 2890 BC).......
  • 2nd dynasty
    Second dynasty of Egypt

    The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt is often combined with the First dynasty of Egypt under the group title, Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. The capital at that time was Thinis....
     (2890 - 2686 BC)
  • 3rd dynasty
    Third dynasty of Egypt

    Third Dynasty The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Other dynasties of the Old Kingdom include the Fourth dynasty of Egypt, Fifth dynasty of Egypt and Sixth dynasty of Egypt....
     (2686 - 2613 BC)
  • 4th dynasty
    Fourth dynasty of Egypt

    The Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, also written Dynasty 4 and Dynasty IV, is characterized as a golden age of the Old Kingdom....
     (2613 - 2498 BC)
  • 5th dynasty
    Fifth dynasty of Egypt

    The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Old Kingdom....
     (2498 - 2345 BC)
  • 6th dynasty
    Sixth dynasty of Egypt

    The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of History of Egypt are often combined under the title "Old Kingdom"....
     (2345 - 2181 BC)
  • 7th and 8th dynasties
    Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt

    The 7th, 8th, Ninth dynasty of Egypt, Tenth dynasty of Egypt and Eleventh dynasty of Egypt List of Egyptian Dynasties are often combined under the group title, First Intermediate Period....
     (2181 - 2160 BC)
  • 9th dynasty
    Ninth dynasty of Egypt

    The Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, 9th, Tenth dynasty of Egypt and Eleventh dynasty of Egypt List of Egyptian Dynasties are often combined under the group title, First Intermediate Period....
     (2160 - 2130 BC)
  • 10th dynasty
    Tenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Ninth dynasty of Egypt, 10th and Eleventh dynasty of Egypt List of Egyptian Dynasties are often combined under the group title, First Intermediate Period....
     (2130 - 2040 BC)
  • 11th dynasty
    Eleventh dynasty of Egypt

    The Eleventh dynasty of ancient Egypt was one group of rulers, whose earlier members are grouped with the four preceding dynasties to form the First Intermediate Period, while the later members are considered part of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
     (2134 - 1991 BC)
  • 12th dynasty
    Twelfth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
     (1991 - 1803 BC)
  • 13th dynasty
    Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
     (1803 - 1649 BC)
  • 14th dynasty
    Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom, though this dynasty overlaps partially with either the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt or the Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt, during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt....
     (1705 - 1690 BC)
  • 15th dynasty
    Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Second Intermediate Period of Egypt....
     (1674 - 1535 BC)
  • 16th dynasty
    Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Second Intermediate Period....
     (1660 - 1600 BC)
  • 17th dynasty
    Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Second Intermediate Period....
     (1650 - 1549 BC)
  • 18th dynasty
    Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt. As well as a number of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, it included Tutankhamun, whose tomb, uncovered by Howard Carter in 1922, was one of the greatest of all archaeological discoveries, being completely undisturbed by tomb robbers....
     (1549 - 1292 BC)
  • 19th dynasty
    Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom....
     (1292 - 1186 BC)
  • 20th dynasty
    Twentieth dynasty of Egypt

    The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. This dynasty is considered to be the last one of the New Kingdom of Egypt, and was followed by the Third Intermediate Period....
     (1186 - 1069 BC)
  • 21st dynasty
    Twenty-first dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period....
     (1069 - 945 BC)
  • 22nd dynasty
    Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period....
     (945 - 720 BC)
  • 23rd dynasty
    Twenty-third dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-third Dynasty of ancient Egypt was a separate regime of Meshwesh Berber people Pharaoh, who ruled ancient Egypt. This dynasty is often considered part of the Third Intermediate Period....
     (837 - 728 BC)
  • 24th dynasty
    Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period....
     (732 - 720 BC)
  • 25th dynasty
    Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as the Ethiopian or Nubian dynasty, was a line of rulers originating in the Kingdom of Kush. They reigned in part or all of Ancient Egypt from 760 BC to 656 BC.....
     (732 - 653 BC)
  • 26th dynasty
    Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt was the last native dynasty to rule Ancient Egypt before the History of Persian Egypt in 525 BC Before Christ ....
     (672 - 525 BC)
  • Achaemenid dynasty
    Achaemenid Empire

    The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was amongst the first Persian Empires that ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed the Ancient Iranian peoples Median Empire....
     (525 - 404 BC)
  • 28th dynasty
    Twenty-eighth dynasty of Egypt

    The Twenty-Eighth Dynasty is often combined with other groupings of rulers of ancient Egypt under the title, Late Period of Ancient Egypt. These other groupings include the Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-First dynasties....
     (404 - 398 BC)
  • 29th dynasty
    Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt

    Nepherites I founded the Twenty-ninth Dynasty of ancient History of Ancient Egypt by defeating Amyrtaeus in open battle, and later putting him to death at Memphis, Egypt....
     (398 - 380 BC)
  • 30th dynasty
    Thirtieth dynasty of Egypt

    File:Gulbenkian Egypt5.jpgThe Thirtieth Dynasty of ancient Egypt followed Nectanebo I's deposition of Nefaarud II, the son of Hakor. This dynasty is often considered part of the Late Period of Ancient Egypt....
     (380 - 343 BC)
  • Achaemenid dynasty
    Achaemenid Empire

    The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was amongst the first Persian Empires that ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed the Ancient Iranian peoples Median Empire....
     (343 - 332 BC)
  • Argead dynasty
    Argead dynasty

    The Argead dynasty was the ancient Greeks ruling house of Macedon from about 700 BC to 310 BC. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography, traced their origins to Argos, in southern Greece ....
     (332 - 309 BC)
  • Ptolemaic Dynasty
    Ptolemaic dynasty

    The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt for nearly 300 years, from 305 BC to 30 BC....
     (305 - 30 BC)
  • Julio-Claudian Dynasty
    Julio-Claudian Dynasty

    The Julio-Claudian Dynasty refers to the four Roman Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide....
     (27 BC-AD 68)
  • Flavian Dynasty
    Flavian dynasty

    The Flavian dynasty was a Ancient Rome imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96 AD, encompassing the reigns of Vespasian , and his two sons Titus and Domitian ....
     (69-96)
  • Nervan-Antonian Dynasty
    Nervan-Antonian dynasty

    Nervan-Antonian dynasty is a dynasty of six loosely connected Roman Emperors, who ruled over the Roman Empire for almost the whole 2nd century ....
     (96-192)
  • Severan Dynasty
    Severan dynasty

    The Severan dynasty was a Ancient Rome imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235. The dynasty was founded by the African general Septimius Severus, who rose to power during the civil war of 193, known as the Year of the Five Emperors....
     (193-235)
  • Constantinian dynasty
    Constantinian dynasty

    The Constantinian dynasty is an informal name for the ruling family of the Roman Empire from Constantius Chlorus to the death of Julian the Apostate in 363....
     (303-336)
  • Valentinian Dynasty
    Valentinian Dynasty

    The Valentinian Dynasty, consisting of four emperors, ruled the Western Roman Empire from 364 to 392 and the Eastern Roman Empire from 364 to 378....
     (364-457)
    • House of Theodosius from 379
  • Leonid dynasty
    House of Leo

    The House of Leo ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 457 to 518 .The emperors of the House of Leo were:# Leo I the Thracian – soldier...
     (457-518)
  • Justinian Dynasty
    Justinian Dynasty

    The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602. It originated with Justin I and ended with Maurice .* Justin I - ...
     (518-602)
  • Sassanian dynasty
  • Heraclian Dynasty (602-695 and 705-711)
  • Rashidun Caliphate
  • Umayyad Caliphate
  • Abbasid Caliphate
  • Mamelukes
  • Ottoman Sultanate
  • Muhammad Ali Dynasty
    Muhammad Ali Dynasty

    The Muhammad Ali Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th Century. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt....
     (1914-1953)


Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
  • Aksumite Empire
    Aksumite Empire

    The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire , , was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the proto-Aksumite period ca....
  • Zagwe dynasty
    Zagwe dynasty

    The Zagwe dynasty ruled Ethiopia from approximately 1137 to 1270, when Yekuno Amlak defeated and killed the last Zagwe king in battle. The name of the dynasty is thought to come from the Ge'ez language phrase Ze-Agaw, meaning "of Agaw" and refer to the Agaw people....
     (c. 900 - 1270)
  • Solomonic dynasty
    Solomonic dynasty

    The Solomonic dynasty is the traditional Royal House of Ethiopia, claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically-described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem: ....
     (1270 - 1974)


Guinea
Guinea

Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....
  • Keita dynasty
    Keita Dynasty

    The Keita Dynasty was the ruling lineage of pre-imperial and imperial Mali Empire from at least the 12th century into the early 17th century. It was at least technically a muslim dynasty and claims descent from Bilal ibn Ribah the muezzin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
     (c. 1200 - 1670)


Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
  • Idrisid dynasty (780-974)
  • Maghrawa dynasty (987-1070)
  • Almoravid dynasty (1073-1147)
  • Almohad dynasty (1147-1269)
  • Marinid dynasty (1258-1420)
  • Wattasid dynasty (1420-1554)
  • Saadi dynasty
    Saadi Dynasty

    The Saadi Dynasty , began with the reign of Sultan Mohammed ash-Sheikh in 1554. From 1509 to 1554 they had ruled only in the south of Morocco....
     (1554-1659)
  • Alaouite dynasty
    Alaouite Dynasty

    The Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Morocco royal family. The name Alaouite comes from the ?Ali of its founder Moulay Ali Cherif who became Sultan of Tafilalt in 1631....
     (1666- current)


Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....


Araucania and Patagonia
Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia

The Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia was an ephemeral political entity established in the 19th century by a Second French Empire lawyer and adventurer named Or?lie-Antoine de Tounens in southern South America....
  • Tounes dynasty (1860–1862)


Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  • House of Braganza
    House of Braganza

    The Most Serene House of Braganza was the dynasty which ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1853 and the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889. It is a collateral line of the House of Aviz, which ruled Portugal from 1385 until 1580....
     (1822-1889)


Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
  • Dessalines Dynasty
    Jean-Jacques Dessalines

    Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. He was autocratic in his rule and crowned himself List of heads of state of Ha?ti in 1805....
     (1804 - 1806)
  • Christophe Dynasty
    Henri Christophe

    Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution, winning independence from France in 1804. On 17 February 1807, after the creation of separate nation in the north Christophe was elected President of Ha?ti of the State of Haiti....
     (1811 - 1820)
  • Soulouque Dynasty (1849 - 1859)


Inca Empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco in modern-day Peru....
  • Hurin dynasty (1197 - c.1350)
  • Haran dynasty (c.1350 - 1572)


Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • House of Iturbide (1822 - 1823)
  • House of Habsburg (1864 - 1867)


Pacific


Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
  • Kingdom of Hawaii
    Kingdom of Hawaii

    The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government....
     (1795-1810)
    • Kamehameha Dynasty
      House of Kamehameha

      The 'House of Kamehameha' , or the 'Kamehameha Dynasty', was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaii between the unification of the islands by Kamehameha the Great in 1810 and the death of Kamehameha V in 1872....
       (c.1795-1872)
    • Kalakaua Dynasty
      House of Kalakaua

      The House of Kalakaua, or the Kalakaua Dynasty, was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaii between the assumption of David Kalakaua to the throne in 1874 and the overthrow of Liliuokalani in 1893....
       (c.1874-1893)
    • Kawananakoa Dynasty
      House of Kawananakoa

      File:Kawananakoawithkingedwardviii.jpgThe House of Kawananakoa, or the Kawananakoa Dynasty in Waiting, is the historically recognized presumptive heirs to the throne of the now defunct Kingdom of Hawaii....
       (c.1868-?)
    • Kalokuokamaile Dynasty (c.1860-?)


New Zealand Maori
New Zealand Maori

New Zealand Maori can refer to:* People of Maori descent* New Zealand Maori rugby union team* New Zealand Maori rugby league team...
  • Te Wherowhero Dynasty
    Maori King Movement

    The Maori King Movement or Kingitanga is a movement that arose among some of the Maori tribes of New Zealand in the 1850s to establish a symbolic role similar in status to that of the monarch of the colonising people, the British....
     (1856 to the present)


Tahiti
Tahiti

O Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward Islands group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean....


Tonga
Tonga

The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....
  • Tu'i Tonga Dynasty
    Tu'i Tonga

    The 'Tui Tonga' is a line of Tongan kings, which originated in the 10th century with the mythical 'Aho'eitu; withdrew from political power in the 15th century by yielding to the Tu'i Ha'atakalaua; and died out with Laufilitonga in 1865....
     (c. 900-1865)
  • Tupou Dynasty
    List of monarchs of Tonga

    The Tupou dynasty of Tonga was officially formed in 1875 after thee constitutional role of the monarch was put forth. Tonga is one of the six monarchies in Oceania....
     (1875 to the present)


Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....


Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
  • Durrani Dynasty
    Durrani Empire

    The Durrani Empire was a large state based in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan and later included northeastern Iran and even parts of eastern Punjab region....
     (1747–1823 and 1839–1842)
  • Barakzai Dynasty
    Barakzai Dynasty

    Barakzai is a common ethnic name among the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and western Pakistan and it is Baloch tribe in Iran. There are seven distinct Pashtun tribes named Barakzai, with the Zirak branch of the Abdal Tareen - Tareen - Durrani tribe being the most important and largest tribe with over 4 million people....
     (1818–1839, 1842–1929 and 1929–1973)
  • Usurper King
    Habibullah Ghazi

    Amir Habibullah Ghazi was Emir of Afghanistan from 17 January to 13 October 1929. He named himself Habibullah 'Khadem e Deen e Rasulullah' . Habibullah succeeded Inayat Ullah, who abdicated on 17 January 1929....
     (January 17, 1929 - October 13, 1929)


Burma
  • Toungoo dynasty
    Toungoo Dynasty

    The Toungoo dynasty was one of the most powerful post-Bagan Bamar monarchys, over which seven kings reigned for a period of 155 years.King Mingyinyo founded the First Toungoo Dynasty at Taungoo , far up the Sittang River south of Ava, towards the end of the Ava dynasty in 1510 AD....
     (1486-1752)
  • Konbaung dynasty
    Konbaung dynasty

    The Konbaung Dynasty , sometimes called the Alaungpaya Dynasty or the House of Alompra by the British colonial rulers) was the last in the history of the Burma monarchy....
     (1752-1885)
  • House of Hanover
    House of Hanover

    The House of Hanover is a Germanic peoples Royal family dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-L?neburg , the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland....
     (1826-1901)
  • House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1901)
    • House of Windsor
      House of Windsor

      The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house was created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by George V by a royal proclamation in 1917....
       (1917-1948), house renamed in 1917 during the First World War


Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  • Davidic Dynasty
  • Hasmonean Dynasty
  • Achaemenid dynasty
    Achaemenid Empire

    The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was amongst the first Persian Empires that ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed the Ancient Iranian peoples Median Empire....
     (343 - 332 BC)
  • Argead dynasty
    Argead dynasty

    The Argead dynasty was the ancient Greeks ruling house of Macedon from about 700 BC to 310 BC. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography, traced their origins to Argos, in southern Greece ....
     (332 - 309 BC)
  • Ptolemaic Dynasty
    Ptolemaic dynasty

    The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt for nearly 300 years, from 305 BC to 30 BC....
     (305 - 30 BC)
  • Herodian Dynasty
    Herodian Dynasty

    The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92....
  • Julio-Claudian Dynasty
    Julio-Claudian Dynasty

    The Julio-Claudian Dynasty refers to the four Roman Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide....
     (27 BC-AD 68)
  • Flavian Dynasty
    Flavian dynasty

    The Flavian dynasty was a Ancient Rome imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96 AD, encompassing the reigns of Vespasian , and his two sons Titus and Domitian ....
     (69-96)
  • Nervan-Antonian Dynasty
    Nervan-Antonian dynasty

    Nervan-Antonian dynasty is a dynasty of six loosely connected Roman Emperors, who ruled over the Roman Empire for almost the whole 2nd century ....
     (96-192)
  • Severan Dynasty
    Severan dynasty

    The Severan dynasty was a Ancient Rome imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235. The dynasty was founded by the African general Septimius Severus, who rose to power during the civil war of 193, known as the Year of the Five Emperors....
     (193-235)
  • Constantinian dynasty
    Constantinian dynasty

    The Constantinian dynasty is an informal name for the ruling family of the Roman Empire from Constantius Chlorus to the death of Julian the Apostate in 363....
     (303-336)
  • Valentinian Dynasty
    Valentinian Dynasty

    The Valentinian Dynasty, consisting of four emperors, ruled the Western Roman Empire from 364 to 392 and the Eastern Roman Empire from 364 to 378....
     (364-457)
    • House of Theodosius from 379
  • Leonid dynasty
    House of Leo

    The House of Leo ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 457 to 518 .The emperors of the House of Leo were:# Leo I the Thracian – soldier...
     (457-518)
  • Justinian Dynasty
    Justinian Dynasty

    The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602. It originated with Justin I and ended with Maurice .* Justin I - ...
     (518-602)
  • Heraclian Dynasty (602-695 and 705-711)


China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  • Five Emperors(2852 BCE - 2205 BCE)
  • Xia Dynasty
    Xia Dynasty

    The Xia Dynasty of China is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals....
     (2100 BC–1600 BC)
  • Shang Dynasty
    Shang Dynasty

    The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was according to traditional sources the first Dynasties in Chinese history. They ruled in the northeastern region of the area known as "China proper", in the Yellow River valley....
     (1600 BC–1046 BC)
  • Zhou Dynasty
    Zhou Dynasty

    The Zhou Dynasty was preceded by the Shang Dynasty and followed by the Qin Dynasty in China. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in China history?though the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty only lasted during the Western Zhou....
     (1046 BC–256 BC)
  • Warring States Period
    Warring States Period

    The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
     (475 BC-221 BC)(Several of the Dynasties in the Warring States were descended from the Zhou royal family)
    • State of Song (part of warring states) The rulers of the state of Song were descendants of the Shang royal family.
    • State of Yue (part of warring states) The kings of Yueh claimed descent from the royal family of the Xia dynasty.
    • State of Wu Same royal family as Zhou dynasty
    • State of Jin Same royal family as Zhou dynasty
    • State of Ba (barbarian state, non sinicized)
  • Qin Dynasty
    Qin Dynasty

    The Qin Dynasty was preceded by the feudal Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. The unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin Shi Huang marked the beginning of Imperial China, a period which lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 CE....
     (221 BC–206 BC) (The royal family of Qin ruled the State of Qin during warring states) (They also claimed descent from one of the Five emperors, Zhuanxu
    Zhuanxu

    Zhuanxu , also known as Gaoyang is a legendary monarch of ancient China.A grandson of the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu led the Shi clan in an eastward migration to present-day Shandong, where intermarriages with the Dongyi clan enlarged and augmented their tribal influences....
    )
  • Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
     (206 BC–220)
    • Minyue - same royal family as state of yueh- they fled when conquered by Chu and established Minyue, Min yue coexisted with the Warring states period, Qin, and Han dynasty until han conquered it.
    • Nanyue
      Nanyue

      Nanyue was an ancient kingdom that consisted of parts of the modern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and much of modern northern Vietnam....
       - Chinese royal family founded by chinese general Zhao Tuo
      Zhao Tuo

      Zhao Tuo , was a commanding general of the Qin Dynasty who later founded the kingdom of Nanyue . The period of rule under Zhao Tuo is also known to the Vietnamese people as the Tri?u Dynasty....
    • Xin Dynasty
      Xin Dynasty

      The Xin Dynasty was a China dynasty which lasted from 9-23 AD. It followed the Western Han Dynasty and preceded the Eastern Han Dynasty.The sole emperor of the Xin Dynasty, Wang Mang , was the nephew of Empress Wang Zhengjun....
       (9 AD- 23 AD) Xin dynasty inturepted the han dynasty, splitting it into east and west periods
  • Three Kingdoms
    Three Kingdoms

    The Three Kingdoms period is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty emperors....
     (220–265) (The emperor of Shu was a descandant of the Han Dynasty royal family)
  • Jin Dynasty
    Jin Dynasty

    Jin Dynasty may refer to:* Jin Dynasty , Chinese dynasty, subdivided into the Western and Eastern Jin periods* Later Jin Dynasty , one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China....
     (265–420)
  • Northern Wei
    Northern Wei

    The Northern Wei Dynasty , also known as the Tuoba Wei , Later Wei , or Yuan Wei , was "part of an era of political turbulence and intense social and cultural change"....
     (controlled northern china to the huai river) (386-534)
  • Southern and Northern Dynasties
    Southern and Northern Dynasties

    The Southern and Northern Dynasties followed the Jin Dynasty and preceded Sui Dynasty in China. It was an age of civil war and political disunity....
     (420–589)
  • Sui Dynasty
    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
     (581–618)
  • Tang Dynasty
    Tang Dynasty

    The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
     (618–907) (The Tang Emperors were members of the Li family, descended from a ruler in the Southern and Northern Dynasties)
    • Second Zhou Dynasty (690-705) Interrupted Tang dynasty
  • Liao Dynasty
    Liao Dynasty

    The Liao Dynasty , 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire , was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper....
     (Khitan) (907-1125) (controlled the 16 prefectures)
  • Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
    Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

    Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was an era of political upheaval in China, beginning in the Tang Dynasty and ending in the Song Dynasty . During this period, five dynasties quickly succeeded one another in the north, and more than 12 independent states were established, mainly in the south....
     (907-960)
  • Song Dynasty
    Song Dynasty

    The Song Dynasty was a ruling Chinese dynasty in China between 960–1279 AD; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty....
     (960–1279)
  • Jin Dynasty (1115–1234) (controlled northern China to the huai river) (1115–1234)
  • Yuan Dynasty
    Yuan Dynasty

    The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
     (1271–1368)
  • Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
     (1368–1644)
  • Shun Dynasty
    Shun Dynasty

    The Shun Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history created in the brief lapse from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty rule in History of China#Qin Dynasty: The Beginning of Imperial China....
     (1644)
  • Qing Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty

    The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
     (1644–1912)
    • Kingdom of Tungning
      Kingdom of Tungning

      The Kingdom of Tungning was a Han Chinese government which ruled Taiwan, between 1661 and 1683. It was a pro-Ming Dynasty kingdom, and was founded by Koxinga, after the destruction of Ming Dynasty power by the Manchu....
       (Taiwan, with chinese rulers) (1662 – 1683)
  • Empire of China (1915–1916)


Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Emperor of Japan
    Emperor of Japan

    The of Japan is the symbol of the state and of the unity of the Japanese people. He is the head of the Imperial House of Japan. Under Japan's present constitution, the Emperor is the "symbol of the state and the unity of the people," and is a ceremonial figurehead in a constitutional monarchy ....
     (660 BC-present)


Ryukyu
Ryukyu Kingdom

The Ryukyu Kingdom was an independent kingdom which ruled most of the Ryukyu Islands from the 15th century to the 19th century. The Kings of Ryukyu unified Okinawa Island and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands in modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Sakishima Islands near Taiwan....
  • Hokuzan
    Hokuzan

    Hokuzan was one of three kingdoms which controlled Okinawa in the 14th century. Okinawa, previously controlled by a number of local chieftains or lords, loosely bound by a paramount chieftain or king of the entire island, split into these three more solidly defined kingdoms within a few years after 1314; the Sanzan period thus began, and wou...
     (1314–1419)
  • Chuzan
    Chuzan

    Chuzan was one of three kingdoms which controlled Okinawa in the 14th century. Okinawa, previously controlled by a number of local chieftains or lords, loosely bound by a paramount chieftain or king of the entire island, split into these three more solidly defined kingdoms within a few years after 1314; the Sanzan period thus began, and woul...
     (1314–1429)
  • Nanzan
    Nanzan

    Nanzan , sometimes called Sannan , was one of three kingdoms which controlled Okinawa in the 14th century. Okinawa, previously controlled by a number of local chieftains or lords, loosely bound by a paramount chieftain or king of the entire island, split into these three more solidly defined kingdoms within a few years after 1314; the S...
     (1314–1429)
  • First Sho Dynasty (1406-1469)
  • Second Sho Dynasty (1469-1879)


Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
  • Gojoseon
    Gojoseon

    Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom, considered the first proper nation of the Korean people. According to the Samguk Yusa and other Korean medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun, who is said to be the grandson of Heaven ....
     (2333-108 BCE)
  • Proto-Three Kingdoms (108-57 BCE)
  • Three Kingdoms of Korea
    Three Kingdoms of Korea

    The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo, and kingdom of Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE....
     (57 BCE-668)
    • Goguryeo
      Goguryeo

      Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Koreans Empire located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and southern Primorsky Krai....
       (37 BCE-668)
    • Baekje
      Baekje

      Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
       (18 BCE-660)
    • Silla
      Silla

      Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
       (57 BCE-935)
    • Gaya
      Gaya confederacy

      Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
       (42 CE–562)
  • North-South States
    North South States Period

    North South States Period refers to the period in Korean history whenSilla and Balhae coexisted at the south and the north.North-South States Period of which the north state is Balhae and the south state is Silla because the unification by Silla was imperfect, and the people of destroyed Goguryeo had established Balhae....
     (698-935)
    • Unified Silla
      Unified Silla

      Unified Silla or Later Silla is the name often applied to the kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, when it conquered Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668....
       (668-935)
    • Balhae
      Balhae

      Balhae was an ancient multiethnic empire established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's capital and southern territories fell to Unified Silla, Dae Jo-young, a former Goguryeo general, whose father was Dae Jung-sang, established Jin , later called Balhae....
       (698-926)
    • Later Three Kingdoms
      Later Three Kingdoms

      The Later Three Kingdoms of Korea consisted of Silla, Hubaekje , and Taebong . The latter two were viewed as heirs to the earlier Three Kingdoms of Korea, which had been united by Silla....
      ( 892-936)
  • Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392)
  • Joseon Dynasty
    Joseon Dynasty

    Joseon , was a sovereign state founded by Taejo Taejo of Joseon, and lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo Kingdom at what is today the city of Kaesong....
     (1392-1897)
  • Korean Empire
    Korean Empire

    The Greater Korean Empire was a former empire of Korea that succeded the Joseon Dynasty that ruled the nation over the past 500 years.In 1897, Emperor Gojong of Korea proclaimed the new entity at Deoksugung Palace and oversaw the partially successful modernization of the military, economy, real property laws, education system, and various...
     (1897-1910)


Ancient India
Ancient India

Ancient India may refer to:*The ancient History of India, which generally includes the ancient history of the whole Indian subcontinent ...
 (Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, Bangladesh
Bangladesh

, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
)
  • Mauryan dynasty (4th—2nd century BC)
  • Kusha?a dynasty
  • Gupta dynasty
  • Tibetan empire
  • Slave dynasty
    Slave dynasty

    The Mamluk Dynasty or Ghulam Dynasty served as the first Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan from 1206 to 1290. The founder of the dynasty, Qutb-ud-din Aybak, was a Turkic peoples ex-slave of the Aybak tribe who rose to command the armies and administer the territory of Mohammad of Ghor in India....
     (Islamic period of Delhi Sultanate)
  • Tughlaq dynasty
    Tughlaq dynasty

    The Tughlaq Dynasty of north India started in 1321 in Delhi when Ghazi Tughlaq assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq. The Tughluqs were a Muslim family of Turkic peoples origin....
     (Islamic period of Delhi Sultanate)
  • Mughal dynasty (Islamic)
  • Chalukya dynasty
    Chalukya dynasty

    The Chalukya dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of south India and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries....
     (6th century to 12th century)
  • Chola dynasty
    Chola Dynasty

    The Chola Dynasty was a Tamil people dynasty that ruled primarily in southern India until the 13th century. The dynasty originated in the fertile valley of the Kaveri River....
     (11th century)
  • British House of Windsor
    House of Windsor

    The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house was created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by George V by a royal proclamation in 1917....


Maldives
Maldives

The Maldives , or Maldive Islands, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a Atolls of the Maldivess stretching south of India's Lakshadweep islands between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago, and about seven hundred kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka in the Laccadive Sea of Indian Ocean....
  • House of Theemuge
    House of Theemuge

    Theemuge Dharikolhu or Homa Dharikolhu was one of the early dynasty of the Maldives that reigned from c.1117 until c.1388. According to the record in the Isdhoo Loamaafaanu , which was written in 1194, the first king of the Theemuge Dynasty extended his rule to cover the entire Maldives....
     (1117-1388)
  • Hilaalee dynasty
    Hilaalee dynasty

    The first king of the Maldivian Hilaalee Dynasty was proclaimed king in the year 1388 AD....
     (1388-1558)
  • (1558-1573) Interregnum
  • Utheemu dynasty
    Utheemu dynasty

    The Utheemu dynasty was created in 1573 when Muhammad Thakurufaanu Al Auzam became sultan of the Maldives. The dynasty was named after the northern Maldives island of Utheemu, birthplace of Thakurufaan....
     (1573-1692)
  • (1692-1701) Kings who do not belong to a particular dynasty.
  • Isdhoo dynasty
    Isdhoo dynasty

    The first king of the Isdhoo Dynasty was proclaimed king in the year 1692 AD....
     (1701-1704)
  • Dhiyamigili dynasty
    Dhiyamigili dynasty

    The Dhiyamigili dynasty was the fifth royal dynasty to rule over the Maldives. It comprised four sultans:* Sultan Muzaffar Muhammad Imaduddin II ...
     (1704-1757)
  • Huraa dynasty
    Huraa dynasty

    The Huraa Dynasty was the sixth royal dynasty to rule over the Maldives. It was founded in 1757 by Sultan al-Ghazi al-Hasan 'Izz ud-din Sri Kula Ranmiba Danala Kirti Kattiri Buwana Maha Radun....
     (1757-1766)
  • Dhiyamigili dynasty
    Dhiyamigili dynasty

    The Dhiyamigili dynasty was the fifth royal dynasty to rule over the Maldives. It comprised four sultans:* Sultan Muzaffar Muhammad Imaduddin II ...
     (1766-1773)
  • Huraa dynasty
    Huraa dynasty

    The Huraa Dynasty was the sixth royal dynasty to rule over the Maldives. It was founded in 1757 by Sultan al-Ghazi al-Hasan 'Izz ud-din Sri Kula Ranmiba Danala Kirti Kattiri Buwana Maha Radun....
     (1773-1953)
  • (1953-1953) Republic (President Muhammad Amin Didi).
  • Huraa dynasty
    Huraa dynasty

    The Huraa Dynasty was the sixth royal dynasty to rule over the Maldives. It was founded in 1757 by Sultan al-Ghazi al-Hasan 'Izz ud-din Sri Kula Ranmiba Danala Kirti Kattiri Buwana Maha Radun....
     (1953-1968)
  • (1968-1978) Republic (President Ibrahim Nasir).
  • (1978-2008) Republic (President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom).


Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  • White Rajahs
    White Rajahs

    The White Rajahs refer to a dynasty that founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946, namely the Brookes, who came originally from England....
     (1841 to 1946)


Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
  • Mongol Empire
    Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
     (1206-1368)
    • Yuan Dynasty
      Yuan Dynasty

      The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
       (1271–1368)
    • Golden Horde
      Golden Horde

      The Golden Horde is a East-Slavic designation for the Mongol?later Turkic languages?Muslim khanate established in the western part of the Mongol Empire after the Mongol invasion of Rus' in the 1240s: present-day Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus....
       (1240s–1502)
    • Ilkhanate
      Ilkhanate

      The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate , was a Mongol khanate established in Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire....
       (1256–1335)
    • Chagatai Khanate
      Chagatai Khanate

      The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol, and later linguistically Turkic languages, khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan , second son of the Great Khan Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors....
       (1225–1687)
  • Post-imperial Mongolia
    Post-imperial Mongolia

    Post-Imperial Mongolia or the Northern Yuan Dynasty refers to the regime surviving in Mongolia after the overthrow of the Mongols-founded Yuan Dynasty in China by the Ming Dynasty in 1368....
     (1370-1634)
  • Qing Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty

    The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
     (1644-1912)


Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
  • House of Saud
    House of Saud

    House of Saud is the royal family of the Saudi Arabia. The modern nation of Saudi Arabia was established in 1932, though the roots and influence for the House of Saud had been planted in the Arabian Peninsula several centuries earlier....
     (1932-present)


Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
  • Yarlung Dynasty (?-842)
  • Dalai Lama
    Dalai Lama

    The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Lhasa-based Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959....
     (1492-1959)
  • Qing Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty

    The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
     (1644-1912)


Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
  • Hari Pun Chai dynasty (663-1293)
  • Phra Roung dynasty (Sukhothai Empire) (1237-1438)
  • Mangrai dynasty (1261- 1578)
  • Eu Thong dynasty (1350-1370),(1388-1409)
  • Suphanabhumi dynasty(1370-1350),(1409-1569)
  • Phra Roung Dynasty (Ayuthaya Empire)(1569-1629)
  • Prasart Thong dynasty(1629-1688)
  • Bann Plu Luang dynasty(1688-1767)
  • Thonburi dynasty(1767-1782)
  • Chakri dynasty
    Chakri Dynasty

    The Chakri Dynasty }} is the current Dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand, the Head of the house is the King of Thailand. The Dynasty has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Ratthanakosin era and the city of Bangkok in 1782 following the end of King Taksin of Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok....
     (1782-present)


Viet Nam
  • H?ng Bàng Dynasty
    H?ng Bàng Dynasty

    The H?ng B?ng Dynasty, also known as the L?c Dynasty, is a dynasty that supposedly ruled in Vietnam for over 2000 years, until the third century BC....
     (2897–258 BC)
  • Th?c Dynasty (257–207 BC)
  • Tri?u Dynasty
    Tri?u Dynasty

    The Tri?u Dynasty is the name given in Vietnam to the lineage of kings of the kingdom of Nam Vi?t , which ruled over parts of southern China and northern Vietnam, and, in some contexts, by extension the era of Nanyue rule, or even the kingdom itself....
     (207–111 BC)
  • Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
     (Chinese) (111–39)
  • Funan Dynasty
    Funan

    Funan was an ancient pre-Angkor Indianized kingdom Khmer kingdom located around the Mekong Delta. It is believed to have been established in the first century C.E, although extensive human settlement in the region may have gone back as far as the 4th century B.C.E....
     (1 AD–630)
  • Trung Sisters
    Trung Sisters

    The Trung Sisters , known in Vietnamese language as Hai B? Trung , and individually as Trung Tr?c and Trung Nh? , were two 1st century Vietnamese people women leaders who successfully repelled China invasions for three years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam....
     (40–43)
  • Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
     (Chinese) (43–220)
  • Champa Dynasty
    Champa

    File:Shiva Dong Duong Style.jpgFile:VietnamChampa1.gifThe kingdom of Champa was an Indianized kingdom of Malayo-Polynesian origins and controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832....
     (Cham) (192–1832)
  • Three Kingdoms
    Three Kingdoms

    The Three Kingdoms period is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty emperors....
     (Chinese) (220–280)
  • Jin Dynasty
    Jìn Dynasty (265-420)

    The J?n Dynasty , one of the Six Dynasties, followed the Three Kingdoms period and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. The dynasty was founded by the Sima family ....
     (Chinese) (280–420)
  • Southern and Northern Dynasties
    Southern and Northern Dynasties

    The Southern and Northern Dynasties followed the Jin Dynasty and preceded Sui Dynasty in China. It was an age of civil war and political disunity....
     (Chinese) (420–544)
  • Anterior Lý Dynasty
    Lý Nam Ð?

    L? Nam ?? was originally L? B? or L? B?n is debatably considered the "first" emperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Early L? Dynasty Dynasty and ruled from Feb....
     (544–602)
  • Sui Dynasty
    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
     (Chinese) (602–618)
  • Tang Dynasty
    Tang Dynasty

    The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
     (Chinese) (618–905)
  • Khúc Family
    Khúc family

    The Kh?c family was a session of leaders who challenged Tang Dynasty rule over Vietnam. The Tang took control of the northern Vietnamese region of Giao Ch?u after 618 and established twelve provinces and 59 districts under the Department of Annam Domination ....
     (906–930)
  • Ngô Dynasty
    Ngô Dynasty

    The Ng? Dynasty was a dynasty in Vietnam.Around the year 930 AD, as Ngo Quyen rose to power, northern Vietnam was a province and vassal state of China and was referred to as Tonkin ....
     (939–967)
  • Ðinh Dynasty
    Ðinh Dynasty

    The ?inh Dynasty was the imperial dynasty of History of Vietnam starting in 968 when ?inh Ti?n Ho?ng vanquished the upheavals of Twelve warlords and ended as the son of ?inh Ti?n Ho?ng, ?inh Ph? ??, ceded the throne to L? Ho?n, and ending in 980....
     (968–980)
  • Prior Lê Dynasty
    Anterior Lê Dynasty

    The Early L? Dynasty was a dynasty that ruled Vietnam after the ?inh Dynasty and before the L? Dynasty. They ruled for a total of three generations and was known for repelling the Song Dynasty invasion....
     (980–1009)
  • Lý Dynasty
    Lý Dynasty

    The L? Dynasty , sometimes known as the Posterior L? Dynasty , was a Vietnamese dynasty that began in 1009 when L? Th?i T? overthrew the Anterior L? Dynasty and ended in 1225 when the queen L? Chi?u Ho?ng was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her husband, Tr?n C?nh....
     (1009–1225)
  • Tr?n Dynasty
    Tr?n Dynasty

    The Tr?n Dynasty was a Vietnamese dynasty that ruled Vietnam from 1225 to 1400. They are credited with 3 victories over Mongol invasions of Vietnam, most notably a decisive Battle of Bach Dang ....
     (1225–1400)
  • H? Dynasty
    H? Dynasty

    The H? Dynasty in History of Vietnam was a short-lived seven-year reign of two emperors, H? Qu? Ly in 1400 and his second son, H? H?n Thuong, who reigned from 1400 to 1407....
     (1400–1407)
  • Posterior Tr?n Dynasty
    Posterior Tr?n Dynasty

    The Later Tr?n Dynasty period of 1407 till 1413 in the history of Vietnam is characterized by two revolts, centered around Tr?n Qu? and Tr?n Qu? Kho?ng....
     (1407–1413)
  • Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
     (Chinese) (1414–1427)
  • Later Lê Dynasty (1428–1527, 1533–1788)
  • M?c Dynasty
    M?c Dynasty

    The M?c Dynasty , ruled the northern provinces of Vietnam from 1527 until 1592, when they lost control over the capital Hanoi for the last time....
     (1527–1677)
  • Tr?nh Lords
    Tr?nh Lords

    The Tr?nh Lords were a series of rulers of Vietnam who controlled the powers of government while leaving a figurehead as king. They have been referred to as the Vietnamese shoguns....
     (1545–1787)
  • Nguy?n Lords
    Nguy?n Lords

    The Nguy?n Lords were a series of rulers of Southern Vietnam . While they claimed to be the loyal followers of the Later L? Dynasty, in reality they were independent rulers in the south of the country Their descendants later ruled the whole of Vietnam as the Nguy?n Dynasty and posthumously elevated their titles to emperors....
     (1558–1777)
  • Tây Son Dynasty
    Tây Son Dynasty

    The name of T?y Son is used in many ways referring back to the period of peasant rebellions and decentralized dynasties established between the eras of the L? Dynasty and Nguy?n Dynasty dynasties in history of Vietnam....
     (1778–1802)
  • Nguy?n Dynasty
    Nguy?n Dynasty

    The Nguy?n Dynasty was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties. Their rule lasted a total of 143 years. It began in 1802 when Emperor Gia Long ascended the throne after defeating the T?y Son Dynasty and ended in 1945 when B?o ??i abdication the throne and transferred power to the North Vietnam....
     (1802–1945)
  • House of Bonaparte (1870)


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....


Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  • House of Habsburg (1273-1918)


Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
  • Progon Dynasty (1190-1216)
  • Angevin
    Angevin

    Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
     (1272-1368)
  • Kastrioti
    Kastrioti

    The Kastriotis were a noble Albanians family in the middle Ages. The Kastrioti dynasty originally hailed from the Mati region, situated in North Albania....
     (1444-1468)
  • Wied
    Wied

    Wied was a County of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located on the Wied River where it meets the Rhine River. Wied emerged as a County earlier than many other German states....
     (1914)
  • Zogu (1928-1939)


Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
  • Orontid Dynasty
    Orontid Dynasty

    File:Yervanduni Armenia, IV-II BC.gifThe Orontid Dynasty was the first known List of Armenian kings dynasty. The Orontids established their supremacy over Armenia around the time of the Scythian and Medes invasion in the 6th century BC....
  • Artaxiad Dynasty
    Artaxiad Dynasty

    The Artaxiad Dynasty ruled Armenia from 189 BC until their overthrow by the Roman Empire in AD 12. Their realm included Greater Armenia, Sophene and intermittently Lesser Armenia and parts of Mesopotamia....
     or the Artashesi Dynasty (189 BC-12 AD)
  • Arsacid Dynasty
    Arsacid Dynasty

    The Arsacid Dynasty may refer to:*Arsacid Empire*Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia*Arsacid dynasty of Iberia*Arsacid Dynasty of Caucasian Albania...
     or the Arshakuni Dynasty (54-428)
  • Bagratuni Dynasty
    Bagratuni Dynasty

    The Bagratuni or Bagratid royal dynasty of Armenia is a royal family whose branches formerly ruled many regional polities, including the Armenian lands of Syunik, Lori, Vaspurakan, Vanand, Taron , and Tayk....
     or the Bagratid Dynasty of Armenia (885-1045)
  • Rubenid Dynasty or the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
    Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

    The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk Turks invasion of Armenia. It was located on the Gulf of Iskenderun of the Mediterranean Sea in what is today southern Turkey....
     (1080-1225)


Belgium, Flanders
Belle Dynasty or Balliol Dynasty (960-to the present), (Traced back to the Treaty of Verdun signed in Thionville, anno 843)

Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
  • Dulo Dynasty
    Dulo clan

    The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars.This was the clan of Kubrat who founded the Onoguria of Bulgars and Eurasian Avars, also known as the Old Great Bulgaria, and his sons Batbayan, Kuber and Asparuh, the latter of which founded Danube Bulgaria....
     (2137 BC - 753 AD)
  • Krum's Dynasty (probably Dulo) (777 - 976/997)
  • Cometopuli dynasty (976/997 - 1018)
  • Asen dynasty
    Asen dynasty

    The Asen dynasty were a dynasty of rulers of a medieval state, called in modern histography the Second Bulgarian Empire, between 1187 and 1280....
     (1187 - 1280)
  • Terter Dynasty (1280 - 1322)
  • Shishman Dynasty
    Shishman

    Shishman , also Shishmanids or Shishmanovtsi , was a medieval Bulgarian royal dynasty of partial Cumans origin.The Shishman dynasty consecutively ruled the Second Bulgarian Empire for approximately one century, from 1323 to 1422, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire....
     (1323 - 1396/1422)
  • Battenberg family
    Battenberg family

    The Battenberg family was a cadet branch of the Rulers of Hesse, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The first member was Julia von Hauke whose brother-in-law, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, created her Countess of Battenberg at her morganatic marriage to his brother, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine of Hesse and by Rhine, i...
     (1878 - 1886)
  • House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

    The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was formerly the Royal House of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in Belgium through the descendants of L?opold I of Belgium, and in the United Kingdom and its associated Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince Albert....
     (1886 - 1947)


Barbarian
Barbarian

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage....
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Bavarii
Bavarii

The Bavarii were a large and powerful tribe which emerged late in Germanic peoples tribal times, in what is now the Czech Republic . They replaced, or perhaps are simply another phase of, the previous inhabitants - the Rugians....
  • Agilolfing Dynasty
    Agilolfings

    The Agilolfings were a family of either Franks or Bavarii nobility that ruled the Duchy of Bavaria on behalf of their Merovingian suzerains from about 550 until 788....


Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
  • Merovingian Dynasty
    Merovingian dynasty

    The Merovingians were a Salian Franks dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the fifth century....
     (481-751)
  • Carolingian Dynasty (751-843)
  • Arnulfings or Pippinids, mayors of the palaces


Lombards
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
See Early kings of the Lombards.
  • Lething Dynasty (until early sixth century)
  • Gausian Dynasty
    Gausian dynasty

    The Gausi or Gausian dynasty was a prominent Lombards ruling clan in the second half of the sixth century . They were Arianism and at odds with the Roman Catholic Church....
     (546-572)
  • Bavarian Dynasty
    Bavarian Dynasty

    The Bavarian dynasty was those kings of the Lombards who were descended from Garibald I of Bavaria, the Agilolfing duke of Bavaria. They came to rule the Lombards through Garibald's daughter Theodelinda, who married the Lombard king Authari in 588....
     (616-712)


the Netherlands
  • House of Orange (1772- to the present)


Ostrogoths
  • Amal Dynasty (before 474-536)


Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
  • Hasdingi
    Hasdingi

    The Hasdingi were the southern tribes of the Vandals, an East Germanic tribe. They lived in areas of today's southern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary....
     (before 407-534)


Visigoths
  • Balthi Dynasty
    Balti dynasty

    The Balti dynasty, Baltungs, Balthings, or Balths, existed among the Visigoths, a Germanic tribe who confronted the Western Roman Empire in its declining years....
     (395-531)


Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
  • Constantinian dynasty
    Constantinian dynasty

    The Constantinian dynasty is an informal name for the ruling family of the Roman Empire from Constantius Chlorus to the death of Julian the Apostate in 363....
     (303-336)
  • Valentinian Dynasty
    Valentinian Dynasty

    The Valentinian Dynasty, consisting of four emperors, ruled the Western Roman Empire from 364 to 392 and the Eastern Roman Empire from 364 to 378....
     (364-457)
    • House of Theodosius from 379
  • Leonid dynasty
    House of Leo

    The House of Leo ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 457 to 518 .The emperors of the House of Leo were:# Leo I the Thracian – soldier...
     (457-518)
  • Justinian Dynasty
    Justinian Dynasty

    The Justinian Dynasty is a family who ruled over the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602. It originated with Justin I and ended with Maurice .* Justin I - ...
     (518-602)
  • Heraclian Dynasty (602-695 and 705-711)
  • Isaurian Dynasty (717-802)
  • Phocid Dynasty (802-813)
  • Phrygian Dynasty (820-867)
  • Macedonian Dynasty
    Macedonian dynasty

    The following is a list of emperors of the Byzantine Empire belonging to the Macedonia dynasty , of Greeks and Armenians descent, which is associated with the Macedonian Renaissance....
     (867-1056)
  • Comnenid Dynasty (1057-1059 and 1081-1185)
  • Doukid Dynasty (1059-1081)
  • Angleid Dynasty (1185-1204)
  • Laskarid Dynasty
    Laskaris

    The Laskaris or Lascaris family was the dynasty ruling the Empire of Nicaea from 1204 to 1261....
     (1204-1261), in exile in Nicaea
    Iznik

    Iznik is a city in Turkey which is known primarily as the site of the First Council of Nicaea and Second Council of Nicaea Councils of Nicaea, the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christianity church, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea....
  • Palaeologid Dynasty (1261-1453)


Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
  • Trpimirovic Dynasty
    Trpimirovic dynasty

    Trpimirovic dynasty was a native Croats dynasty that ruled in Medieval Croatian state, with interruptions, from 845 until 1091.The dynasty was named after Trpimir I of Croatia, the first member of dynasty known by name....
     (845-1091)
  • House of Savoy
    House of Savoy

    The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
     (1941-1943)


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  • see List of Danish monarchs
    List of Danish monarchs

    This is a list of Denmark monarchs, that is, the Kings and Queens regnant of Denmark. This includes:* The Kingdom of Denmark ** Personal union of Denmark and Norway ...
     (-1412)
  • House of Oldenburg
    House of Oldenburg

    The House of Oldenburg is a North German dynasty and one of Europe's most influential Royal Houses.It first became royal when Count Christian I of Denmark of Oldenburg became chosen King of Denmark in 1448, and has been the Danish Royal House ever since....
     (1448-1863)
    • House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
      Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

      Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl?cksburg , from Gl?cksburg in northernmost Germany, is a line of the House of Oldenburg that is descended from Christian III of Denmark....
       (1863 to the present)


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Carolingian Dynasty (843-987)
  • Capetian Dynasty
    Capetian dynasty

    The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
     (987-1792, 1814-1848)
    • Direct Capetians
      House of Capet

      For a full history of the Capetian family, see Capetian dynasty.The House of Capet, or The Direct Capetian Dynasty, , also called The House of France , or simply the Capets, which ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328, was the most senior line of the Capetian dynasty - itself a derivative dynasty from the...
       (987-1328)
    • House of Valois (1328-1589)
      • Direct House of Valois (1328-1498)
      • House of Valois
        Valois

        Valois is a district, in the city of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. It was once a separate village, many years ago, but was then merged with Pointe-Claire....
        -Orléans
        Orléans

        Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
         (1498-1515)
      • House of Valois
        Valois

        Valois is a district, in the city of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. It was once a separate village, many years ago, but was then merged with Pointe-Claire....
        -Angoulême
        Angoulême

        Angoul?me is a communes of France in western France and capital of the Charente Departments of France....
         (1515-1589)
    • House of Bourbon
      House of Bourbon

      The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
       (1589-1792 and 1814-1848)
      • House of Bourbon-Vendome
        Vendôme

        Vend?me is a communes of France in central France....
         (1589-1792, 1814-1830)
      • House of Bourbon-Orléans
        Orléans

        Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
         (1830-1848)
  • Bonaparte Dynasty
    Bonaparte

    The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty. Founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a Corsican military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution, transforming the First French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d'?tat....
     (1804-1814 and 1852-1870)


Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
  • Pharnabazid Dynasty
    Pharnabazid Dynasty

    The Pharnabazid or P?arnavaziani is the name of the first dynasty of Georgia kings of Kartli preserved by the Georgian historical tradition....
     (299-90 BC, 30BC-189 AD)
  • Artaxiad Dynasty
    Artaxiad dynasty of Iberia

    The Artaxiads , a branch of the Artaxiad Dynasty of Kingdom of Armenia ruled Caucasian Iberia from circa 90 BC to 30 AD. According to the medieval Georgian chronicles, they acquired the crown of Iberia after the Iberian nobles revolted against their king Parnajom of Iberia, of the Pharnabazid dynasty, and petitioned the king of Armenia to se...
     (90-30 BC)
  • Arsacid Dynasty
    Arsacid dynasty of Iberia

    The Iberian Arsacids , a branch of the eponymous Parthian dynasty, ruled the ancient Georgia kingdom of Caucasian Iberia from c. 189 until 284 A.D., when they were succeeded by the Chosroid Dynasty....
     (189-284 AD)
  • Chosroid Dynasty
    Chosroid Dynasty

    The Chosroids were a dynasty of the kings and later of the Principate of Iberia of the early Georgia state of Caucasian Iberia, natively known as Kartli, from the fourth to the ninth centuries....
     (284-580, 627-684)
    • Guaramid Dynasty
      Guaramid Dynasty

      The Guaramid Dynasty was the younger branch of the Chosroid Dynasty of Caucasian Iberia . They ruled Iberia as Principate of Iberia in the periods of 588-627, 684-748, and 779/780-786, three with the dignity of curopalates bestowed by the Byzantine Empire imperial court....
       (588-627, 684-748, 779-786)
  • Nersianid Dynasty
    Nersianid Dynasty

    The Nersianids were an early medieval Georgia princely family. Appearing in the late fifth century, in the reign of King Vakhtang I of Iberia , they figure in the eighth as dukes of Shida Kartli and twice attained, in the persons of Adarnase III of Iberia and his son Nerse of Iberia, to the office of Principate of Iberia of Iberia between...
     (748-780)
  • Bagratid (Bagrationi) dynasty
    Bagrationi Dynasty

    The Bagrationi dynasty was the ruling family of Georgia . Their ascendency lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early 19th century. In modern usage, this royal line is frequently referred to as the Georgian Bagratids, a Greek language form of their dynastic name....
     (813-1810)


Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Carolingian Dynasty (843-911)
  • Conradine dynasty
    Conradine dynasty

    The Conradines or Conradiner were a dynasty of Franconian counts and dukes of the 8th to 11th Century, named after Conrad, Duke of Thuringia and his son Conrad I of Germany , Duke of Franconia, King of Germany....
     (911-918)
  • Saxon Dynasty or Ottonian Dynasty (919-1024)
  • Salian Dynasty
    Salian dynasty

    The Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four List of German Kings and Emperors#Kings , also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia....
     or Franconia
    Franconia

    Franconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria and a much smaller region in northeastern Baden-W?rttemberg called Heilbronn-Franken....
    n Dynasty (1024-1125)
  • Supplinburger Dynasty (1125-1137)
  • Hohenstaufen Dynasty
    Hohenstaufen

    The House of Hohenstaufen was a dynasty of List of German Kings and Emperors , many of whom were also crowned Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Swabia....
     (1137-1254)
  • Habsburg Dynasty (1273-1291, 1298-1308, and 1438-1740)
    • House of Habsburg-Lorraine (1745-1806)
  • House of Nassau (1292-1298)
  • House of Luxemburg (1308-1313, 1347-1400, and 1410-1437)
  • House of Wittelsbach
    Wittelsbach

    The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
     (1314-1347, 1400-1410, and 1742-1745)
  • Hohenzollern Dynasty (1871-1918)
  • Herrman-Ott Dynasty (1165-1918)

Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
  • Liutpolding Dynasty 889-947
  • Ottonian Dynasty 947-1017
  • House of Luxembourg
    House of Luxembourg

    The House of Luxembourg was a medi?val Luxembourgian noble family. In 1308, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Counts, Dukes and Grand Dukes of Luxembourg, became German king, his son, John of Luxembourg, shortly afterwards received the Bohemian monarchs....
     1017-1026, 1039-1047
  • Salian Dynasty
    Salian dynasty

    The Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four List of German Kings and Emperors#Kings , also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia....
     1026-1039, 1053-1061
  • Welf Dynasty 1070-1138, 1156-1180
  • Babenberg Dynasty 1138-1156
  • Wittelsbach Dynasty 1180-1918

Saxony
Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a States of Germany of Germany. Located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area and the sixth largest in population , of Germany's sixteen states....
  • Liudolfing Dynasty 843-961
  • Billung Dynasty 961-1106
  • Supplinburger Dynasty 1106-1127
  • Welf Dynasty 1127-1138, 1142-1180
  • Ascanian Dynasty 1138-1142, 1180-1422
  • Wettin Dynasty 1422-1918


Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
  • Árpád Dynasty (c.895-1301)
  • Premyslid Dynasty (1301-1305)
  • House of Wittelsbach
    Wittelsbach

    The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
     (1305-1308)
  • Capetian Dynasty
    Capetian dynasty

    The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
    , House of Anjou
    Angevin

    Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
     (1308-1395)
  • House of Luxemburg (1387-1437)
  • Habsburg Dynasty (1437-1457, 1526-1918)
  • Jagiellonian Dynasty (1440-1526)
  • Zápolya Dynasty (1526-1571)
  • Habsburg Dynasty
    Habsburg

    The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
     (1526-1918)


Montenegro
Montenegro

Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
  • Vojislavljevic Dynasty
    House of Vojislavljevic

    The House of Vojislav was a medieval dynasty that inherited the claims over Duklja of the old ruling Jovan Vladimir and the Serbs Vlastimirovic dynasty....
     (c. 7th century - 1186)
  • Nemanjic Dynasty
    House of Nemanjic

    The House of Nemanjic was a medieval Serbian ruling dynasty.The "Stefan" dynasty - House of Nemanjic was named after Stefan Nemanja. It was descended from the cadet branch of the House of Vojislavljevic....
     (1186 - 1355)
  • Balšic Dynasty
    House of Balšic

    The House of Bal?ic, "Barons of Coastal Serbia", was a medieval Serbian dynasty that ruled Independent Principality of Zeta .It lasted from 1356 until 1435, when it was succeeded by the House of Crnojevic....
     (1356 - 1435)
  • Crnojevic Dynasty
    House of Crnojevic

    The House of Crnojevic was a dynasty ruling in the Medieval Montenegrin state of Zeta, first struggling with House of Bal?ic for control over Zeta, and then succeeding them as Zeta's supreme overlords throughout the 14th and 15th century....
     (1435 - 1516)
  • Petrovic-Njegoš Dynasty (1696 - 1918)


Iberia
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....

Aragón
Aragon

Aragon is an autonomous communities of Spain of Spain. Located in northeastern Spain, the region comprises three provinces of Spain from north to south: Huesca , Zaragoza , and Teruel ....
  • Bellonids Dynasty (755-1410)
  • Jiménez Dynasty
    Jiménez dynasty

    The Jim?nez or Ximenes were a Spanish ruling family from the 10th century to the 13th century. They were the first Europeanisers of Spain and brought her back within the wider European political scene while also giving her the political character and division that persisted until the end of the Middle Ages....
     (1035-1162)
  • House of Barcelona
    House of Barcelona

    The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 . According to one proposed genealogy, they were the Bellonids; certainly since the twelfth century they have been regarded as the descendants of Wifred the Hairy....
     (1162-1410)
  • House of Trastámara
    Trastámara

    The House of Trast?mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Arag?n and List_of_monarchs_of_Sicily#Aragonese_direct_rule.2C_1409.E2.80.931516 from 1412 to 1516, in Kingdom_of_Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501....
     (1412-1516)


Asturias
Asturias

The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous communities of Spain within the kingdom of Spain, former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages....
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  • Peláyez Dynasty (718-739)
  • Pérez Dynasty
    Pérez Dynasty

    The P?rez Dynasty is the family of kings which ruled in Kingdom of Asturias, Kingdom of Galicia, and Kingdom of Le?n from the succession of Alfonso I of Asturias, son of Peter of Cantabria, duke of Cantabria....
     (739-925)


Castile
Kingdom of Castile

Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. It emerged as a political autonomous entity in the 9th century. It was called County of Castile and was held in vassalage from the Kingdom of Le?n....
  • House of Lara (930-1032), counts
  • Jiménez Dynasty
    Jiménez dynasty

    The Jim?nez or Ximenes were a Spanish ruling family from the 10th century to the 13th century. They were the first Europeanisers of Spain and brought her back within the wider European political scene while also giving her the political character and division that persisted until the end of the Middle Ages....
     (1035-1126), kings
  • House of Burgundy
    House of Burgundy

    The House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
     (1126-1369)
  • House of Trastámara
    Trastámara

    The House of Trast?mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Arag?n and List_of_monarchs_of_Sicily#Aragonese_direct_rule.2C_1409.E2.80.931516 from 1412 to 1516, in Kingdom_of_Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501....
     (1369-1516)


León
Kingdom of León

Kingdom of Le?n was an independent country situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 A.D. when the Christian princes of Kingdom of Asturias along the Bay of Biscay shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of Le?n, Spain....
  • Pérez Dynasty
    Pérez Dynasty

    The P?rez Dynasty is the family of kings which ruled in Kingdom of Asturias, Kingdom of Galicia, and Kingdom of Le?n from the succession of Alfonso I of Asturias, son of Peter of Cantabria, duke of Cantabria....
     (910-1037)
  • Jiménez Dynasty
    Jiménez dynasty

    The Jim?nez or Ximenes were a Spanish ruling family from the 10th century to the 13th century. They were the first Europeanisers of Spain and brought her back within the wider European political scene while also giving her the political character and division that persisted until the end of the Middle Ages....
     (1037-1126)
  • House of Burgundy
    House of Burgundy

    The House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
     (1126-1369)
  • House of Trastámara
    Trastámara

    The House of Trast?mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Arag?n and List_of_monarchs_of_Sicily#Aragonese_direct_rule.2C_1409.E2.80.931516 from 1412 to 1516, in Kingdom_of_Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501....
     (1369-1516)


Navarre
Navarre

Navarre is a region in northern Spain, constituting one of its autonomous communities in Spain - the "Foral Community of Navarre" ....
  • House of Íñiguez (824-905)
  • Jiménez Dynasty
    Jiménez dynasty

    The Jim?nez or Ximenes were a Spanish ruling family from the 10th century to the 13th century. They were the first Europeanisers of Spain and brought her back within the wider European political scene while also giving her the political character and division that persisted until the end of the Middle Ages....
     (905-1234)
  • House of Champagne (1234-1305)
  • House of Capet
    House of Capet

    For a full history of the Capetian family, see Capetian dynasty.The House of Capet, or The Direct Capetian Dynasty, , also called The House of France , or simply the Capets, which ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328, was the most senior line of the Capetian dynasty - itself a derivative dynasty from the...
     (1284-1349)
  • House of Évreux
    House of Évreux

    The House of ?vreux was a noble French family, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, which flourished from the beginning of the 14th century to the mid 15th century....
     (1328-1441)
  • House of Trastámara
    Trastámara

    The House of Trast?mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Arag?n and List_of_monarchs_of_Sicily#Aragonese_direct_rule.2C_1409.E2.80.931516 from 1412 to 1516, in Kingdom_of_Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501....
     (1425-1479)
  • House of Foix (1479-1516)
  • House of Albret (1483-1572)
  • House of Bourbon
    House of Bourbon

    The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
     (1572-1620)


Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • House of Vímara Peres
    Vímara Peres

    V?mara Peres, Count of Portugal was a Christian crusading duke of the 9th century in west Iberian peninsula. He was a vassal of the King of List of Asturian monarchs, List of Leonese monarchs and Kingdom of Galicia, Alfonso III of Le?n, and was sent to Reconquista and secure from the Moors , in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, the are...
     (868-1071), counts
  • House of Burgundy
    House of Burgundy

    The House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
     or Afonsine Dynasty (1093-1383), counts until 1139, then kings
  • House of Aviz
    House of Aviz

    The House of Aviz is a dynasty of List of Portuguese monarchs. In 1385, the Interregnum of the 1383-1385 crisis ended with the acclamation of the Master of the Order of Aviz, John I of Portugal, natural son of king Peter I of Portugal and Dona Teresa Louren?o as king....
     or Joannine Dynasty (1385-1580)
    • House of Aviz-Beja
      House of Aviz

      The House of Aviz is a dynasty of List of Portuguese monarchs. In 1385, the Interregnum of the 1383-1385 crisis ended with the acclamation of the Master of the Order of Aviz, John I of Portugal, natural son of king Peter I of Portugal and Dona Teresa Louren?o as king....
       (1495-1580)
  • House of Habsburg
    Habsburg

    The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
     or Philippine Dynasty (1580-1640)
  • House of Braganza
    House of Braganza

    The Most Serene House of Braganza was the dynasty which ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1853 and the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889. It is a collateral line of the House of Aviz, which ruled Portugal from 1385 until 1580....
     or Brigantine Dynasty (1640-1910)
    • House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
      House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

      The House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that ruled the Kingdom of Portugal from 1853 until the declaration of the republic in 1910....
       (1853-1910)


Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  • House of Trastámara (1492-1516)
  • House of Habsburg
    Habsburg

    The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
     or House of Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
     (1516-1700)
  • House of Bourbon
    House of Bourbon

    The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
     (1700-1868, 1874-1931, and 1975 to the present)
  • House of Bonaparte
    Bonaparte

    The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty. Founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a Corsican military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution, transforming the First French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d'?tat....
     (1808-1813)
  • House of Savoy
    House of Savoy

    The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
     (1871-1873)


Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • House of Savoy
    House of Savoy

    The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
     (1861-1946)


Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
  • Fairhair Dynasty
    Fairhair dynasty

    The Fairhair dynasty was a family of kings, alternatively ruling Norway 800-1387 , or through only three generations of kings, in the 10th century CE....
     (890-1319)
  • House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
    Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

    Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl?cksburg , from Gl?cksburg in northernmost Germany, is a line of the House of Oldenburg that is descended from Christian III of Denmark....
     (1905 to the present)


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
  • Seljuq Dynasty
    Seljuq dynasty

    The Seljuq were a Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to 14th centuries. They set up an empire known as Great Seljuq Empire that stretched from Anatolia through Persia and was the target of the First Crusade....
     (1077-1307)
  • Ottoman Dynasty
    Ottoman Dynasty

    File:Barber cape.jpgThe Ottoman Dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan....
     (1281-1923)


Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  • Piast Dynasty
    Piast dynasty

    Piast dynasty was the first Polish historical Royal dynasty that ruled Poland from its beginnings starting with the semi-legendary Piast the Wheelwright....
     (ninth century-1296 and 1306-1370)
  • Premyslid Dynasty
    Premyslid dynasty

    The Premyslids , were a Czech royal dynasty which reigned in Bohemia and in Poland ....
     (1291-1306)
  • Capetian Dynasty
    Capetian dynasty

    The Capetian dynasty is the largest European royal house. It includes any of the direct descendants of Hugh Capet of France. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri%2C_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the House of Bourbon of the dynasty....
    , House of Anjou
    Angevin

    Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
     (1306-1399)
  • Jagiellonian Dynasty
    Jagiellon dynasty

    The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House of Gediminas dynasty that reigned in Central European countries between the 14th and 16th century....
     (1386-1572 and 1575-1586)
  • Valois Dynasty
    Valois Dynasty

    The House of Valois was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet as List of French monarchs from 1328 to 1589. A cadet branch of the family reigned as Duke of Burgundy from 1361 to 1482....
     (1573-1574)
  • House of Báthory
    Báthory

    The B?thory were a Hungary noble family of the Gutkeled clan. The family rose to significant influence in Central Europe during the late Middle Ages, holding high military, administrative and ecclesiastical positions in the Kingdom of Hungary....
     (1576-1586)
  • House of Vasa
    House of Vasa

    The House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland and Lithuania 1587-1668. It origined from a noble family in Uppland of which several members had high offices during the 15th century....
     (1587-1668)
  • House of Wisniowiecki
    Wisniowiecki

    Wisniowiecki is the name of a family notable in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates in Ruthenia of Rurikid or Gediminids descent....
     (1669-1673)
  • House of Sobieski
    Sobieski

    Sobieski * Sobieski family, or House of Sobieski a notable family of Polish nobility, whose members included:** Marek Sobieski , voivode of Lublin, father of Jakub Sobieski...
     (1674-1696)
  • Wettin Dynasty (1697-1706, 1709-1733 and 1736-1764)
  • House of Leszczynski
    Leszczynski

    Leszczynski, plural: Leszczynscy is the surname of a Poland szlachta family. Some Polish surnames have different forms for the genders, Leszczynska is the form for a female family member....
     (1704-1709 and 1733-1736)
  • House of Poniatowski
    Poniatowski

    Poniatowski is the surname of a Poland szlachta family. Because Polish adjectives have different forms for the genders, Poniatowska is the same name for a female family member....
     (1764-1795)


Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  • House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
    Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

    The House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is the cadet branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty, less known than the Franconian branch which became Burgrave of Nuremberg and later ruled Brandenburg-Prussia and the German Empire....
     (1866-1947)


Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • House of Rurikovich
    Rurik Dynasty

    The Rurik Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus', the successor Russian principalities, and early united Russia, from 862 to 1598.According to the Primary Chronicle, the dynasty was established in 862 by Rurik, the great legendary ruler of Novgorod....
     (862-1598, 1606-1610)
  • House of Romanov
    Romanov

    The House of Romanov was the second and last monarchy dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917. From 1762 until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire was ruled for five generations by a line of the House of Oldenburg descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp....
     (1613-1762)
  • House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
    House of Oldenburg

    The House of Oldenburg is a North German dynasty and one of Europe's most influential Royal Houses.It first became royal when Count Christian I of Denmark of Oldenburg became chosen King of Denmark in 1448, and has been the Danish Royal House ever since....
    , called Romanov
    Romanov

    The House of Romanov was the second and last monarchy dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917. From 1762 until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire was ruled for five generations by a line of the House of Oldenburg descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp....
     (1762-1917)


Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
  • House of Uppsala
    Uppsala

    Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest Cities of Sweden of Sweden with 128,409 inhabitants.Located about 70 km north of the capital Stockholm, it is also the seat of the Uppsala municipality ....
     (970-1060)
  • House of Stenkil
    House of Stenkil

    The House of Stenkil was a dynasty on the Sweden throne from c. 1060 to c. 1125. Stenkil probably originated from V?sterg?tland.Line before Stenkil, according to the Norse sagas:...
     (1060-1130)
  • House of Sverker
    House of Sverker

    After the extinction of the House of Stenkil and the ascension of Sverker I of Sweden in 1130, a civil war commenced. In the beginning, there were several pretenders, of whom Sverker I emerged as victorious, for a time....
     (1130-1222), interspersed with House of Eric
  • House of Eric
    House of Eric

    The dynasty of Eric or House of Erik was one of the two noble families, dynasties, which rivalled for the kingship of Sweden between 1150 and 1220....
     (1156-1250), interspersed with House of Sverker
  • House of Bjällbo
    Folkung

    In modern Swedish language, Folkung has two meanings, which appear to be opposites:# The medieval House of Bjelbo in Sweden, which produced several Swedish statesmen and kings....
     or Folkung Dynasty (1248-1387)
  • House of Vasa
    House of Vasa

    The House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland and Lithuania 1587-1668. It origined from a noble family in Uppland of which several members had high offices during the 15th century....
     (1521-1654)
  • House of Wittelsbach
    Wittelsbach

    The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
     or House of Palatinate
    Palatinate-Zweibrücken

    Palatinate-Zweibr?cken is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Zweibr?cken....
    -Zweibrücken
    Zweibrücken

    Zweibr?cken is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river at the border of the Palatinate forest....
    -Kleeburg (1654-1720)
  • House of Hesse (1720-1751)
  • House of Holstein-Gottorp (1751-1818)
  • House of Bernadotte
    Bernadotte

    The House of Bernadotte, the current Royal House of the Sweden, has reigned since 1818. Between 1818 and 1905 it was also the Royal House of Norway....
     (1818 to the present)


Two Sicilies

Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
  • House of Hauteville (1071-1198), counts until 1130
  • House of Hohenstaufen (1194-1266)
  • House of Capet
    Angevin

    Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
    , House of Anjou (1266-1282)
  • House of Barcelona
    House of Barcelona

    The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 . According to one proposed genealogy, they were the Bellonids; certainly since the twelfth century they have been regarded as the descendants of Wifred the Hairy....
     (1282-1410)
  • House of Trastámara
    Trastámara

    The House of Trast?mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Arag?n and List_of_monarchs_of_Sicily#Aragonese_direct_rule.2C_1409.E2.80.931516 from 1412 to 1516, in Kingdom_of_Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501....
     (1412-1516)
  • House of Habsburg
    Habsburg

    The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
     (1516-1700 and 1720-1735)
  • House of Bourbon
    House of Bourbon

    The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
     (1700-1713)
  • House of Savoy
    House of Savoy

    The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
     (1713-1720)
  • House of Bourbon
    House of Bourbon

    The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
     (1735-1861)
  • (As a region of the Kingdom of Italy.) House of Savoy
    House of Savoy

    The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
     (1861-1946)


United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....

England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • House of Wessex
    House of Wessex

    The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, refers to the family that ruled a monarchy in southwest England known as Wessex. This House was in power from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex to the unification of the Heptarchy....
     (802-1016 and 1042-1066)
  • House of Denmark (1013-1014 and 1016-1042)
  • Norman Dynasty
    Norman dynasty

    Norman dynasty is the usual designation for the King of England which immediately followed the Norman conquest and lasted until the Plantagenet dynasty came to power in 1154....
     (1066-1154)
  • Plantagenet Dynasty (1154-1485)
    • House of Anjou
      Angevin

      Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
       (1154-1399)
    • House of Lancaster
      House of Lancaster

      The House of Lancaster was a branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. It was one of the opposing factions involved in the Wars of the Roses, an intermittent civil war which affected England and Wales during the 15th century....
       (1399-1461 and 1470-1471) (Throne merged with Irish)
    • House of York
      House of York

      The House of York was a branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet, three of whom became List of monarchs of England in the late 15th century....
       (1461-1470 and 1471-1485)
  • House of Tudor (1485-1603)
  • House of Stuart
    House of Stuart

    The House of Stuart, also known as the House of Stewart is an important European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century....
     (1603-1714) (Throne merged with Scotland)


Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
  • Fir Ol nEchmacht
    Fir Ol nEchmacht

    Fir Ol nEchmacht was the name of a group or race of people living in pre-historic Ireland. The name may be translated as Fir=men; Ol =race, people; nEchmacht=the given name of the people....
  • Crowley
    Crowley

    Crowley is a surname originating from Ireland....
  • Dal Fiachrach Suighe
    Dal Fiachrach Suighe

    The Dal Fiachrach Suighe claimed descent from Fiachra Suighe, the youngest of six sons of Fedlimid Rechtmar. His oldest brother was Conn of the Hundred Battles....
  • The Connachta
  • Uí Fiachrach
    Uí Fiachrach

    The U? Fiachrach were a dynasty who originated in, and whose descendants later ruled, the coicead or fifth of Connacht at different times from the mid-first millennium onwards....
  • Uí Néill
    Uí Néill

    The U? N?ill were Ireland and Scottish dynasties who claimed descent from Niall Noigiallach , an historical High King of Ireland who died about 405....
  • Eóganachta
    Eóganachta

    The E?ganachta , by tradition founded by ?ogan, king of Munster, the firstborn son of the semi-mythological third-century king Ailill Aulom, was an Irish dynasty centred around Cashel, Tipperary which dominated southern Ireland from the 5th to the 16th century....
  • Uí Dúnlainge
    Uí Dúnlainge

    The U? D?nlainge, from the Old Irish "grandsons of D?nlaing", were an Irish dynasty of Leinster kings who traced their descent from D?nlaing mac ?nda Niada....
  • Uí Cheinnselaig
    Uí Cheinnselaig

    The U? Cheinnselaig, from the Old Irish language "grandsons of Cennsalach", were an Ireland dynasty of Leinster who traced their descent from ?nnae Cennsalach, a supposed contemporary of Niall of the Nine Hostages....
  • Dál Riata
    Dál Riata

    D?l Riata was a Gaels overkingdom on the western seaboard of Scotland with some territory on the northern coasts of Ireland. In the late 6th and early 7th century it encompassed roughly what is now Argyll and Bute and Lochaber in Scotland and also County Antrim in Northern Ireland....
  • Dál nAraidi
    Dál nAraidi

    D?l nAraidi was a kingdom of the Cruithne in the north-east of Ireland in the first millennium. The lands of the D?l nAraidi appear to correspond with the Robogdii of Ptolemy's Geographia , a region shared with D?l Riata....
  • Dál Fiatach
    Dál Fiatach

    The D?l Fiatach were a group of related tribes located in north-east Ulster in the Early Christian Ireland and Early Medieval Ireland 800?1166 periods of the history of Ireland....
  • Clann Cholmáin
    Clann Cholmáin

    Clann Cholm?in is the name of the "kindred" or descendants of Colm?n M?r , son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Part of the Southern U? N?ill — they were the kings of Mide — they traced their descent to Niall of the Nine Hostages and his son Conall Cremthainne....
  • Síl nÁedo Sláine
    Síl nÁedo Sláine

    S?l n?edo Sl?ine is the name of the descendants of ?ed Sl?ine , son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Part of the Southern U? N?ill—they were the kings of Brega—they claimed descent from Niall No?giallach and his son Conall Cremthainne....
  • Cenél nEógain
    Cenél nEógain

    Cen?l nE?gain is the name of the "kindred" or descendants of E?gan mac N?ill , son of Niall of the Nine Hostages who founded the kingdom of T?r E?gain in the 5th century....
  • Cenél Conaill
    Cenél Conaill

    The Cen?l Conaill is the name of the "kindred" or descendants of Conall Gulban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages defined by oral and recorded history.The were also known in Scotland as the Kindred of St....
  • Uí Briúin Bréifne
  • Dál gCais
    Dál gCais

    The D?l gCais were a dynastic group of related septs located in north Munster who rose to political prominence in the early medieval era in Ireland....
  • MacDermot
    MacDermot

    MacDermot is an Irish people surname, and the surname of the ruling dynasty of Moylurg, a kingdom that existed in Connacht from the 10th to 16th centuries....
  • Burke
    Burke

    Burke may refer to:...
  • Ó Neill
    Ó Neill

    ? Neill is the name of one of the premier families of Ireland, formerly Kings of Tir Eogain and Earl of Tyrone. They were a branch of the northern Irish dynasty known as the Cen?l Conaill, who were in turn an off-shoot of another dynasty, the U? N?ill...
  • O Domhnaill
  • O Connor Sligo
    O Connor Sligo

    The O Conor Sligo were a branch of the ? Conchobhair royal family who were Kings of Connacht. They were descended from Brian Luighneach ? Conchobhair and were Lords of Sligo into the 17th century....
  • O'Conor Don
    O'Conor Don

    The O'Conor Don is the hereditary chieftain of the traditional royal family of Connacht, one of the premier Irish Royal Families a lineage which is descended through sixty-six generations providing some twenty-seven Kings of Connacht and numerous High King of Ireland....
  • Clanricarde
    Clanricarde

    The term Clanricarde was a term meaning both a territory and a title in Ireland between the 13th and 19th century....
  • Plantagenet Dynasty (1154-1485)
    • House of Anjou
      Angevin

      Angevin is the name applied to the residents of Anjou, a former province of the Ancien R?gime in France, as well as to the residents of Angers....
       (1154-1399)
    • House of Lancaster
      House of Lancaster

      The House of Lancaster was a branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. It was one of the opposing factions involved in the Wars of the Roses, an intermittent civil war which affected England and Wales during the 15th century....
       (1399-1461 and 1470-1471) (Throne merged with English)


Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
  • House of Alpin
    House of Alpin

    The House of Alpin is the name given to the kin-group which ruled in Pictland and then the kingdom of Alba from the advent of Cin?ed mac Ailp?n in the 840s until the death of M?el Coluim mac Cin?eda in 1034....
     (843-1034)
  • House of Dunkeld
    House of Dunkeld

    The so-called House of Dunkeld, in Scottish Gaelic language D?n Chailleann , is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the clear succession of List of monarchs of Scotland from 1034 to 1040 and from 1058 to 1290....
     (1034-1040, 1058-1286)
  • House of Moray
    House of Moray

    The so-called House of Moray is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the succession of rulers whose base was at the region of Moray and who ruled sometimes a larger kingdom....
     (1040-1058)
  • House of Baliol
    House of Balliol

    The House of Balliol was a Picardy and Anglo-Norman family who began to rule some estates in England in the reign of William Rufus. In the late 13th and 14th centuries, two members of the house were kings of Scotland....
     (1292-1296) (see Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    , Flanders
    Flanders

    Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
    )
  • Plantagenet Dynasty
  • House of Bruce (1306-1371)
  • House of Stewart (1371-1707) (Throne Merged with English)


Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Ireland murged with the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England and Ireland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • House of Stuart
    House of Stuart

    The House of Stuart, also known as the House of Stewart is an important European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century....
     (1603-1714)
  • House of Hanover
    House of Hanover

    The House of Hanover is a Germanic peoples Royal family dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-L?neburg , the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland....
     (1714-1901)
  • House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1901 to the present)
    • House of Windsor
      House of Windsor

      The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house was created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by George V by a royal proclamation in 1917....
       (1917 to the present), house renamed in 1917 during the First World War


Political families in Republics


Though in elected governments rule does not pass automatically by inheritance, political power often accrues to generations of related individuals even in Republics. Eminence, Influence
Influence

Influence may refer to:*...
, familiarity, tradition
Tradition

The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem, acc. of traditio which means "handing over, passing on", and is used in a number of ways in the English language:...
, genetics
Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and Genetic variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding....
, and even nepotism
Nepotism

Nepotism is the showing of favoritism toward relatives or friends based upon that relationship, rather than on an objective evaluation of ability or suitability....
 may contribute to this phenomenon.

Family dictatorship
Family dictatorship

A family dictatorship, in political science terms a personalistic regime, is a form of dictatorship that occurs in a nominally or formally republican regime, but operates in practice like an absolute monarchy, in that political power passes within the dictator's family....
s are a slightly different concept, where political power passes within a family due to the overwhelming authority of the leader, rather than informal power accrued to the family.

Some political dynasties:
  • The Beazley and Crean families (Australian Labor Party
    Australian Labor Party

    The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
    )
  • Ziaur Rahman
    Ziaur Rahman

    Lieutenant-General Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, Hilal-i-Jurat was a charismatic Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1976 uptill 1981 and founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , one of the two largest political parties in the country....
    's and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bengali people politician and the founding leader of Bangladesh, considered the Pater Patriae. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister of Bangladesh....
    's families (Bangladesh
    Bangladesh

    , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
    )
  • The Nehru-Gandhi family
    Nehru-Gandhi Family

    The Nehru-Feroz Gandhi family is an Indian political family which has been dominant in the Indian National Congress for most of India's early independent history....
     (India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    )
  • The Bhutto family
    Bhutto family

    The Bhutto family is a political family in Pakistan. Bhutto is a Sindhi tribe settled in Sindh....
     (Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    )
  • The Soekarnos (Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
    )
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
    Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi Companion of the Order of Australia ; born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolence resistance....
    's family (Burma
    Myanmar

    Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
    )
  • The Kim
    Kim Il-sung

    Kim Il-sung was the president and absolute ruler of North Korea from its founding in early 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il....
    s (North Korea
    North Korea

    North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula....
    )
  • Lee Kuan Yew
    Lee Kuan Yew

    Lee Kuan Yew, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Companions of Honour was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990....
    's family (Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
    )
  • Solomon Bandaranaike's family (Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
    )
  • The Assads (Syria
    Syria

    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
    )
  • The Medici
    Medici

    The M?dici family was a powerful and influential Florence family from the 14th to 18th century. The family had three popes , numerous rulers of Florence and later members of the French and English royalty....
     family (Republic of Florence)
  • The Churchills/Dukes of Marlborough
    John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

    John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Order of the Garter was an England soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries....
    ) (UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • The (Earl) Russells
    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Order of the Garter, Order of St Michael and St George, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an England British Whig Party and Liberal Party politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
     (UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • The Chamberlains
    Joseph Chamberlain

    Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman.In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade....
     (UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • The Greys
    Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

    Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Whig Party statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ....
     (UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • The Pitts
    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Kent Privy Council of Great Britain was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who achieved his greatest fame as a Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War, as known in Great Britain and Asia and who was later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     (UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • The Adamses
    Adams political family

    The Adams family was a prominent political family in the United States during the late eighteenth century through early twentieth century....
     (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Kennedys (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Bushes (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Long family
    Long family

    for the Long family of politicians from EnglandThe Long family is a family of politicians from the United States. Below is a list of members:*George S....
     (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Roosevelts
    Roosevelt family

    The Roosevelt family is a prominent United States political family of Netherlands descent that produced two United States Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D....
     (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Tafts
    Taft family

    The Taft family of the United States hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, with historic origins in Massachusetts; its members have served Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Utah, and the United States in various positions, such as Governor of Ohio, Governor of Rhode Island, United States Senate , United States House of Representatives , Unit...
     (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • The Udalls
    Udall family

    For other meanings see Udall .The Udall family is a List of United States political families rooted in the Western United States. Its role in politics spans over 100 years and four generations....
     (US
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )