For centuries it was a separate, autonomous kingdom with few relationships with the outside world.

Varzil also hints that the era of hundreds of autonomous kingdoms must come to an end if Darkover wants peace.

These uprisings split imperial Tibet into a multitude of separate, autonomous kingdoms, each ruled by a local warlord.

It is named after two historic districts that were part of the former autonomous kingdom of Shewa, Efrata and Gedem.

Nor did official documents ever refer to it as an empire (Imperium or any cognate word); instead, it was considered a dynastic union of autonomous kingdoms.

By the end of the 15th century there was a myriad of autonomous Christian kingdoms and principalities.

From 1515 until 1841, Navarre was in effect an autonomous kingdom in personal union with the Spanish crown.

Norway was restored in 1814 as an autonomous kingdom in a personal union with Sweden.

Erling fought for the traditional small, autonomous kingdoms and the þing system, against the reformists of the Fairhair family line.

The island was in effect split up in nine autonomous kingdoms, a situation that would endure until the 19th century.