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Duke

Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below grand dukes and above or below princes, depending on the country or specific title. The title comes…

Middle Ages, Royal dukes & Italy, Germany and Austria

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Duchy and dukedom

Middle Ages

Modern age

Royal dukes

France

Italy, Germany and Austria

Elsewhere in Europe

Post-colonial non-European states

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Duke

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related to Slavic and nearby countries · 61
Duke → Bohemia, Brzeg, Danish, Dithmarschen, Ditmarsenskiy, Duchy, Examples, Friedland, Generally, German, German Fürst, Gertsog Shlesvig-Golstinskiy, Grand Duchy, Great's, Greater Poland, Herzog, In, In Bohemia, In Lithuania, In Pomerelia
related to Italy, Germany and Austria · 30
Duke → Also, As, Austria, Cybo-Malaspina, Dukes, Empire, Este, Farnese, Ferrara, Florence, German, Germany, Gonzaga, Herzog, Holy Roman Empire, HRE, In Northern Italy, Italian, Mantua, Massa
related to China · 28
Duke → According, Ancient China, Autumn, Cao Cao, During, For, Han, However, In, It, Jin, Lord, Mencius, Qi, Shang, Song, Southern, Spring, The, Three Deferences
related to United Kingdom · 25
Duke → Albany, Bedford, British, Cambridge, Clarence, Connaught, Cornwall, Cumberland, Ducal, Edinburgh, Following, Gloucester, His Royal Highness, In, Kent, King Edward VIII, Lancaster, Ross, Rothesay, Strathearn
related to General sources · 24
Duke → Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition, Archibald, Clarendon Press, Encyclopædia Britannica, Hodgkin, Invaders, Italy, July, Lewis, No, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Phillips, Regnum Francorum, Sir Frank, Spain, Speculum, Stenton, The Dukes, The Goths
related to Lombards · 17
Duke → Beneath, Benevento, Cleph, Dukes, In, It, Italy, Latin, Lombard, Lombards, Rule, Spoleto, The, The Lombard, These, Though, When
related to Modern age · 16
Duke → Anhalt, Austria, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Europe, Germany, In, Italy, Luxembourg, Modena, Napoleon's, Nassau, Parma, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Since
related to Belgium · 14
Duke → Baudouin, Belgian, Belgium, Brabant, Brussels, Charles, Count, Flanders, In Belgium, King Albert II, King Leopold III's, Liège, Low Countries, Prince
related to Duchy and dukedom · 14
Duke → British, Cornwall, Crown, Duchy, Grand Duke, In Scotland, Lancaster, Luxembourg, Luxembourgish, Privy Purse, Rothesay, Similarly, The Duke, The Grand Duchy
related to Empire of Brazil · 14
Duke → Brazil, Brazilian, Emperor Pedro, Empire, In, Lima, Luís Alves, Maria II, None, Pedro I's, Pedro II, Silva, The, Two

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title dukes duchy king titles kingdom royal duchies also dukedom century became dynasty later ducal created monarch given prince dux

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dukeis amale title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy0.90text
Dukeis aduke who is a member of the British royal family0.90text
Marlboroughinstance ofalthough dukedoms0.80text
Fifeinstance ofalthough dukedoms0.80text
Brazilinstance ofPortugal and some former colonial possessions0.80text
Haiti.United KingdomIn the United Kingdominstance ofPortugal and some former colonial possessions0.80text
a royal duke is a duke who is a member of the British royal familyinstance ofPortugal and some former colonial possessions0.80text
entitled to the style ofinstance ofPortugal and some former colonial possessions0.80text
feudal Japaninstance ofespecially in hierarchic aristocracies0.80text
useful as an indication of relative rank.Indian SubcontinentThe Indian feudal system cannot be fully translated to its European counterpartsinstance ofespecially in hierarchic aristocracies0.80text
Dukerelated to AlbaniaThe Venetians0.60section
Dukerelated to AlbaniaDurazzo0.60section

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