Emperor

See also: Emperor (homonymy)

Empereur is a title Monarchique, sometimes hereditary, carried by the Souverain of a Pays.

The title of emperor is a deformation of the imperator which the victorious Roman generals acclaimed by their troops carried. It took its current direction when it became the permanent title of the Roman Emperors, introduced like perpetually victorious. The first traditionally recognized emperor is Auguste in Rome (27 av. J. - C. with 14 a. J. - C.). Since Néron, which was the first to proceed thus, the word imperator replaces the first name of the emperor after his accession with the Empire.

In a strict sense, an emperor is that which carries one of his titles (imperator, augustus, caesar, princeps), a derivative of those (autocrat, sebastocrat, Basile). In the broad sense, it includes the leaders of the nonpresidential authoritarian regimes.

The female one of emperor is empress .

Distinction enters the emperor and the king

The King S just like the emperors are Monarque S. It does not have there rules to distinguish them. Just it will be noted that the rank of emperor can be higher than that of king. Thus within the German Empire, between 1870 and 1918, where the Kaiser reigned on states organized in the form of kingdom (the such kingdom of Bavaria).

The size of the controlled territory and the religious and ethnic diversity of the controlled people can be taken into account. Thus, a king can carry besides two titles such as the queen of the the United Kingdom of Large-Brittany-and-to Ireland-of-North, in addition Impératrice of the Indies or the emperor of Austria, also king of Hungary.

Sometimes, the emperor is compared to a divinity (Japan).

In Europe, the imperial title was monopolized by the monarchs who claimed imperial heritage romano-Byzantine. Thus, Charlemagne was emperor of Occident, Charles Quint the powerful whole Head of State of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire.

List countries which were directed by an emperor

The Japan is the only country with still having an emperor ( tenno ). However several other countries were formerly directed by emperors, over more or less long periods: ² Rectification: Oman country of the Arabic peninsula has a empeurer.

  • Germany (Kaiser)

  • Austria
  • Islamic Empires (See Empire Omeyyade and Abbasid Empire)
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria (Tsar): NOTE: for Bulgarian Tsar wants to say king and not emperor. The title of khan equivalent of emperor was utlisé by certain Bulgarian sovereigns such Boris I and Siméon I.
  • Central Africa (under Bokassa I {{er}})
  • China
  • Spain (on several occasions at the beginning of the second millenium, the most known emperor Alphonse VII of Castille and León starting from 1135)
² Egypt Empire of 1912 to 1922.
  • Ethiopia (Négus)
  • France (under the Bonaparte)
  • Gaulle
  • Haiti (with some recoveries at the 19th century)
  • India (the Empire moghol then the British Empire)
  • Persian Iran or (“King of the kings”)
  • Mexico (under Agustín de Iturbide then Maximilien of Mexico); under Aztecs.
² Morocco Morocco was Empire until 1957, date on which Mohamed V gives up his title of emperor for that of king. ² Oman its sovereign current is emperor * ancient Rome (princeps, caesar and augustus) then Byzance (basileus, autocrat and sebastocrat as from the 7th century)
  • Russia (Tsar, then emperor and autocrat)
  • Holy Germanic Roman Empire
  • Empire Songhaï
  • Serbia (Tsar)
  • Tibet
  • Turkey or Ottoman Empire (Sultan, inter alia titles, although this last is not the direct equivalent of emperor. Nevertheless, the Othoman sultans carried the title of kaysar starting from 1453.)
²-- 91.168.135.101 December 2nd, 2007 with 22:16 (THIS) (Didier)

See too

Simple: Emperor

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