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Crown names several entities associated with monarchy:

  • A crown (headgear), the headgear worn by a monarch, other high dignitaries, divinities etcetera.
  • The Crown, a term used to separate the government authority and property of the government from the personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch of a kingdom. Compare Crown colony, Crown land.
  • Crowning, a Russian novel.

Crown is also the name of several currencies, originally bearing this symbol of teh emitting monarchy (or modelled after such a coin) : Crown (headgear) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Crown is a term which is used to separate the government authority and property of the state in a kingdom from any personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... In the United Kingdom and its predecessors, Crown land is designated land belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. ... Crowning (Koronatsiya, or the last of the Romanovs), the historical novel by internationally acclaimed Russian detective story writer Boris Akunin. ...

In first-person shooters, crowning is the act of shooting an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun, and is considered a grave humiliation. Crown reverse, 1953 and 1960. ... The Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted the gold standard in 1892 when the new currency of the Krone (Crown, also known in Hungarian and other imperial languages as the Koruna) of 100 hellers was introduced. ... The Czechoslovak Crown or Czechoslovak koruna (in Czech and Slovak: Koruna československá, at times Koruna česko-slovenská; koruna means crown) was the currency of Czechoslovakia from 10 April 1919 to 1939 and from November 1, 1945 to February 7, 1993. ... The Slovak Crown (in Slovak:Koruna slovenská - note the word order!) was the currency of the WWII Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945. ... The Koruna (English translation Crown) is the currency used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. ... The Koruna (English translation Crown) is the currency used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. ... The Danish krone is the currency used in Denmark and the Danish dependency of Greenland. ... The Faroese króna is the currency of the Faroes. ... The Kroon is the official currency of Estonia. ... Króna is the name of the currency used in Iceland . ... Krone is the name of the currency used in Norway. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ... Doom, one of the games that defined the first-person shooter genre. ...


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The Crown Council of Ethiopia (3584 words)
Crown Prince Asfa Wossen was then wed to Princess Medferiash Work Abebe, and established a family of four children, including HIH Prince Zere Yacob Amha Selassie, who was later himself named Crown Prince.
Crown Prince Asfa Wossen moved to London to begin his exile, and while still trying to recover from the effects of the stroke, he closely monitored events in Ethiopia, maintaining contact with resistance movements inside and just outside the country.
In 1993, Prince Ermias was invested, in exile, as the President of the Ethiopian Crown Council, the body which acts during an interregnum as the custodian of the Crown, and which, during the reign of an Emperor, acts as the principal advisory council to the Crown.
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