Kingdoms and Principalities

Hereditary monarchies and princely states of a single realm or people, ruled by a king, prince or duke without the conquest-built, multi-ethnic scope of an empire, spanning the ancient, medieval and early modern world. Belongs here: royal houses such as the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of Prussia before their absorption into a larger or later state, African and Asian kingdoms and princely states such as Kush, Dahomey, the Zulu Kingdom, Mysore and Jhansi State, feudal principalities and duchies such as Aquitaine and Wallachia, the Tsardom of Russia as the monarchy that preceded the Russian Empire proper, and historical crown dominions that ended as their own polity, such as the Dominion of Canada. Does not belong here: a state that styled and governed itself as an empire, filed under Empires and Imperial States, and a monarchy still reigning today, filed under Modern Monarchies.