King Alexander subsequently proclaimed a royal dictatorship on January 6, 1929.

It ruled only 45 days, and was supplanted February 10, 1938 by a royal dictatorship.

The Pahlavi dynasty has sometimes been described as a "royal dictatorship".

Political parties were banned from the start and the royal dictatorship took on an increasingly harsh character.

He renamed the land Yugoslavia, and abrogated the constitution to establish a royal dictatorship.

On 6 January 1929, King Alexander dispensed with the constitution and introduced a royal dictatorship.

Under the royal dictatorship, the parliament became merely a decorative body, deprived of its main attributes.

Left to their own devices, with intractable economic and ethnic problems, most of them, though not Czechoslovakia, were military or royal dictatorships by the mid-Thirties.

However, as the royal dictatorship was installed on February 10, 1938, this election never took place.

In 1938, Carol had abolished all political parties and declared a royal dictatorship.