Medieval Kingdoms of Europe Flashcards
The largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe; the predecessor of the modern states of France and Germany; lasting from the 3rd to the 10th centuries
Kingdom of the Franks, later the Carolingian Empire
European state that lasted from the 13th century to 1795 that at its greatest extent, in the 15th century, was the largest state in Europe, including what is now Belarus and parts of Ukraine, Poland and Russia
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries that was the largest contiguous land empire, stretching from Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to the Sea of Japan
Mongol Empire
The continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Byzantine Empire
Capital city of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
A loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty, beginning with Prince Oleg
Kievan Rus’
A state in Islamic Iberia (along with a part of North Africa) ruled by the Umayyad dynasty; it existed from 929 to 1031
Caliphate of Córdoba
Non-continuous union in Scandinavia that from 1397 to 1523, joined under a single monarch of the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including most of Finland), and Norway, together with Norway’s overseas dependencies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles)
Kalmar Union
Duchy on the southern coast of the Baltic sea, established as a vassal state of Poland in 1121, later independent or a vassal state of other empires, including the Holy Roman; partitioned after the death of the last Griffin duke in the Thirty Years’ War
Duchy of Pomerania
A monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the 20th century, beginning with the coronation of Stephen I of the Árpád dynasty
Kingdom of Hungary
4th-6th century Germanic kingdom located in the western part of the Alps and the Rhône valley, annexed by the Franks in 534
Kingdom of the Burgundians
Kingdom established in 933 by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy under King Rudolf II; later one of the three kingdoms within the medieval Holy Roman Empire, along with the Kingdom of Germany and the Kingdom of Italy.
Kingdom of Arles
Duchy in northwestern Italy created in 1416 when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor awarded the title of “Duke” to Count Amadeus VIII; the last Duke, Victor Emmanuel II, became King of Italy.
Duchy of Savoy
One of the Germanic successor states to the Western Roman Empire, existing from the 5th to the 8th centuries, established by King Wallia in Gallia Aquitania and then extended by conquest over all of Hispania.
Kingdom of the Visigoths
Northeastern Slavic state, existing from the 12th to 15th centuries, stretching from the Gulf of Finland to the northern Ural Mountains; a trade hub at the northern end of both the Volga trade route
Novgorod Republic or Novgorodian Rus’
