| In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
| Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures. |
| Rather, the German state resulted from the union of a collection of principalities and kingdoms under the domination of the strongest, Prussia. |
| Amid the ruin of the City of Dreams, Mehmed imbibed a valuable lesson about the twilight of nations, empires and kingdoms. |
| Unitary states may be created from a number of republics, kingdoms, and principalities, as with Germany and Italy. |
