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Recent Examples of principality
Princess Charlene of Monaco made a royal appearance at an event in the principality on Tuesday.
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Julia Teti, WWD, 29 Jan. 2025
The principalities in Anatolia also put up a fierce fight against the Ottomans, who conquered the region in the fifteenth century.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2016
This adds six hectares of space to Monaco’s existing 208 hectares (a space only about two-thirds the size of New York’s Central Park), which brings the amount of land Monaco has added over the past sixty years to roughly 25% of the principality’s total size.
—Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
The principality also is a culinary destination with restaurants from legendary chefs, including Alain Ducasse’s Le Louis XV and Yannick Alléno’s Pavyllon Monte-Carlo.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Anne of Cleves, sister to the duke of a German duchy, emerged as a promising candidate.—
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Even in an era of kingdoms and duchies, nobody could afford a Bugatti Royale.—
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These included newspapers from the northern kingdom, and royal almanacs that the king had kept.—
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Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.—
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The site was built in the 18th century by a sultanate that still governs the region politically and spiritually.—
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Long periods of rule by Portuguese, Dutch, and finally British colonial occupiers were only fully concluded in 1965, when the Maldives became an Islamic sultanate, albeit one not initially included in the British Commonwealth.—
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The other is Bernard Arnault ($178 billion), the wealthiest in France, whose fashion and cosmetics empire LVMH includes the likes of Louis Vuitton and Sephora.—
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There is a case to be made that Musk’s cozying up to Trump will ultimately benefit Musk’s empire—avoiding regulations that may help with Tesla’s self-driving plans or SpaceX and Starlink contracts, for example.—
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Undermining our judicial branch’s authority is a direct threat to the core of our republic — three co-equal branches of government working in tandem to preserve American’s life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.—
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In the 1990s, for instance, Russian President Boris Yeltsin used economic coercion to secure concessions from Central Asian and Caucasian republics that wanted to retain close links to Moscow.—
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The sovereign is known to reach for watercolors and has brought his paint set along for royal tours all over the world through the years.—
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Kerl will be in Sydney on Tuesday to try to meet the 75-year-old British sovereign again during his first tour to a Commonwealth realm since acceding the throne.—
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Historically, imperialist leaders have used military conquest, economic coercion or diplomatic pressure to expand their dominions, and justified their foreign incursions as civilizing missions, economic opportunities or national security imperatives.—
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Kanye West goes on another antisemitic rant, defends Diddy, declares ‘dominion’ over wife.—
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The nuanced understanding of consumer emotions, tonality, and sentiment—critical elements for brand building—remain domains where human insight currently outperforms AI capabilities.—
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By the time defenders block one address or domain, new ones have already been assigned.—
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“Principality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/principality. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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