NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Diarchy

Diarchy (or dyarchy) is a society or an organization with two rulers on an equal standing. Diarchies are known from ancient Sparta, Rome, Carthage as well as from Germanic (see Germanic king),India and Dacian tribes. Ranks in the Inca Empire were structured in moieties, with two occupants of each rank, but with different prestige, one hanan (upper) and one hurin (lower). Sparta (Î£Ï€Î¬ÏÏ„Î·) was a city in ancient Greece, whose territory included, in Classical times, all Laconia and Messenia, and which was the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus â€“ SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1285 kmÂ² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ... The Germanic king originally had three main functions. ... Alternate meanings: see Dacia (disambiguation) Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci or Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by... A view of Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas, now an archaeological site. ... Look up moiety on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Examples of English rulers

Hengest or Hengist (d. ... King Ethelred I or Ã†Ã¾elrÃ¦d I (c. ... Alfred (849? â€“ 26 October 899) or Ã†lfred was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. ... William III of England (14 November 1650 â€“ 8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and a Protestant Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots... Mary II (30 April 1662â€“28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689 until her death, and as Queen of Scotland (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. ...

Examples of Diarchies

(see Montagu-Chelmsford reforms) The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were reforms introduced by the British Government in India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. ...

Examples of Swedish kings

Categories: Organization stubs | Forms of government Alrik and Erik fighting Alrek and Eirík (Old Norse Alrekr and Eiríkr ) were two legendary kings of Sweden. ... Yngvi and Alf were two legendary Swedish kings of the House of Yngling. ... King BjÃ¶rns barrow in HÃ¥ga (Old Norse name: Haug)near Uppsala. ... Anund Uppsale or Anoundus ruled Sweden together with his brother Björn at Hauge, according to Rimbert and Hervarar saga (he and Björn are also mentioned by Adam of Bremen). ... Eric the Victorious (VI), or Erik Segersäll, (985?- 995), was king of the Swedes during the last two decades of the 10th century. ... Olof BjÃ¶rnsson (ca 970 - 975), was a semi-legendary Swedish king, who according to Hervarar saga and the Styrbjarnar Ã¾Ã¡ttr SvÃakappa ruled together with his brother Eric the Victorious. ... Eric the Victorious (VI), or Erik Segersäll, (985?- 995), was king of the Swedes during the last two decades of the 10th century. ... Coin minted for Olof SkÃ¶tkonung in Sigtuna Olof of Sweden or Olof SkÃ¶tkonung/Skottkonung (the meaning of the cognomen is disputed) was the son of Eric the Victorious and Sigrid the Haughty. ... The Swedes rebelled against the Anund Gårdske because he did not want to worship the Norse gods and Håkan the Red became king, 1070-1079, although he was a Christian. ... Inge Stenkilsson (king 1079–1084 (?) and 1087–1105) ruled with his half-brother Haakon the Red, until Haakon died, in 1080. ...