suzerainty

The sun beat at them as if they were an affront to its suzerainty.

But the contention throws us back upon the academic question of what a suzerainty is.

Chinese government sources consider this a sign of sovereignty rather than suzerainty.

"And I offer you as reward anything which might lie within my suzerainty.

His suzerainty over Lebanon was on display to all.

Russia had often asserted an unofficial suzerainty over the Polish nation.

By this treaty Portugal also recognized the suzerainty of the pope.

"I can control a suzerainty, but how may I command her heart?

"My reign is being resisted in many quarters of the suzerainty.

After the 9th century, the island was briefly under nominal Byzantine suzerainty.

For these reasons the heads of the Seven Families reject his suzerainty.

He was also the first to receive investiture and to submit to Chinese suzerainty.

They also laid claim to the interior, although this remained a rather nominal suzerainty.

Finally, he was, in 1525, forced to accept Ottoman suzerainty and the rise of the tribute.

Suzerainty is a Asian political concept indicating limited authority over a dependent state.

Ottoman suzerainty remained virtually unchallenged throughout the following 90 years.

He officially accepted the shah's suzerainty and agreed to pay tribute.

However, he was at war with Serbia in 1268, while still under Hungarian suzerainty.

This form was continued in 777 with language implicitly excluding papal suzerainty.

It was autonomous, and yet subject to some vague suzerainty, the limits of which no one has ever been able to define.

Elsewhere too, it was easier, using this model, to leave in place the ruling families who passed under Ottoman suzerainty.

However, during much of this time, the kingdom was under foreign suzerainty, and the King often only had titular privileges.

These rulers were allowed a measure of internal autonomy in exchange for British suzerainty.

He made a heroic effort to check the advance by bringing the chaotic region under his suzerainty.

He did not ask for independence and never attempted to repudiate the suzerainty of the sultan.