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A kingdom is a country ruled by a King or a Queen. Most of modern-days Kingdoms however are represented by sovereigns that no longer have political commitments in their nation. They stand only as the remaining of a long lasting royalist tradition.

Kingdoms were governed by a monarchic system, one of the first type of political systems that ever existed. After the failure of the Athenian democracy and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, Kingdoms started in the V century. The barbarian invasions showed the emergence of the Kingdoms of the Goths, the Vandals, the Franks...

Great empires expended at this time, and Kingdom was very often synonymous with a nation endowed with “military” forces, that had both to extend its territory and to ward off the other Kingdom's attempts to colonize its lands.

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Kingdoms are ruled by a monarchy, it means that the power is concentrated in the hands of only one person. The first monarchies were total, and most of the time derived from the doctrine of the divine right. Clovis, the first King of France, and the first King that spurred Christianity, claimed that his sovereignty was the will of God. Being chosen by God, and since religious feeling was growing in the Middle Ages, Monarchs' deeds could not be questioned by the mass...

Nowadays, some countries, like the United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand... are still Kingdoms. The queen Elizabeth of England will be soon the oldest monarch that ever lived. But since most of these countries have experienced in their history a wave of revolutions, people no longer accept as a criteria for election the simple fact of blood, and kings and queens of these Kingdoms have most of the time a “gadget” power.

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