Kingdom of Dacia

The Dacians probably came from a Thracian stock and moved into the region sometime in the seventh or sixth century BC. The Greek historian Herodotus considered the Dacians the “bravest and the fairest of the Thracians.”

Between 450 and 60 BC, Dacia experienced a succession of kings that predate the establishment of a stable monarchy. These kings include Dromikhaites (r. early 200 BC) in the third century BC and Oroles (r. early 100s BC) and Ruboostes (r. mid 100s) in the second century BC.

Around 61 BC Burebista emerged as the king of the Dacians. He organized and improved the socioeconomic coalition of the people and launched a vast campaign of conquest against the surrounding chiefdoms and clans.

Dacia reached its peak under King Decebalus, who fought against the Romans. The second Dacian War (AD 105-106) brought about the destruction of the Dacian kingdom and Romans conquest of the entire region.
Kingdom of Dacia

Kingdom of Aragon

Aragon was a kingdom in southeastern Spain, bordering in southern France and the Pyrenees.

In medieval times, the name Aragon also indicated the lands held by the house of Aragon, which included the kingdom of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Majorca and some French fiefs, especially in Provenance, Roussillon and Montpellier.

The principality of Aragon had its origin in 1035, when Sancho III of Navarre left part of the region to his illegitimate son, Ramiro I. Ramiro and his successors, as kings of Aragon, extended the Aragonese territory southward at the expense of the Moorish emirate of Zaragoza.

 Zaragoza, the capital of the Al-Moravod kingdom, fell to Alfonso I of RAgaon in 1118 and the re-conquest of present day Aragon from the Moors was completed by the late twelve century. In 1118 Zaragoza replaced Huesca as the kingdom’s capital.

In the 13th century James I the Conqueror, King Aragon, extended the kingdom by taking control of Valencia and the Balearic islands.

In the 13th – 15th centuries it came to rule Sicily, Sardinia, Naples and Navarra. In 1479 the kingdom of Aragon and Castile were united to form the nucleus of modern Spain. The old kingdom of Aragon survived as an administrative unit until 1833, when it was divided into provinces.
Kingdom of Aragon

Early history Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918)

The name of Prussia is derived from its ancient inhabitants, the Borussi, or Porussi: so called from the Slavonic word po, near and Russi; signifying the people who lived adjacent to or near the Russians.

In the beginning there was only Brandenburg a territory encompassing some 40,000 square and centered on the city of Berlin. This was the heartland of the state that would late be known as Prussia.

On 18 January 1701, Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg was crowned ‘King in Prussia’ in the city of Konigsberg.

The celebrations began on 15 January in Konigsberg, when heralds wearing blue velvet livery emblazoned with the new royal coat of arms passed through the city, proclaiming the Duchy of Prussia a sovereign kingdom.

The Kingdom was made up of thirteen provinces, including West Prussia, Eats Prussia, Brandenburg (Berlin), Hanover, Rhine, Saxony, and others.

With the unification of Germany by Bismarck in 1871, the Kingdom of Prussian became part of the German Empire, or a state within a state, albeit by far the most important part of the Empire.

Berlin was the capital of both the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire.

In 1795, Poland was partitioned and was annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia, with Warsaw becoming the capital of the province of South Prussian.
Early history Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918)