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- to those of regular despots, both recognizing that they were destined to rule. Enlightened rulers may have played a part in the abolition of serfdom in...20 KB (2,334 words) - 15:34, 6 September 2024
- Despotism (redirect from Despot (ruler))foreign princes. The Despot wore elaborate costumes similar to the Emperor's and had many privileges. Despots ruled over parts of the empire called Despotates...9 KB (1,105 words) - 05:28, 4 June 2024
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (redirect from Joseph II of Austria)District of Józsefváros was named for the Emperor in 1777 and bears this name up to the present. Like many of the "enlightened despots" of his time,...58 KB (7,223 words) - 21:47, 31 August 2024
are called "enlightened despots" by historians. They included Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia, Leopold II of Tuscany and...178 KB (22,196 words) - 23:00, 28 August 2024
on the era and the region: tyrant, heretic, enlightened despot, Puer Apulia (Boy from Apulia), and father of the Fatherland. Modern scholars generally praise...102 KB (11,260 words) - 08:05, 19 August 2024
Béarn and Foix. Known as the Prince of the Pyrenees, Gaston ruled as an enlightened despot, playing the role of lord protector for his people. Gaston...126 KB (17,212 words) - 19:07, 31 July 2024
the fourth son of Philip V of Spain and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism...96 KB (11,517 words) - 21:46, 31 August 2024
"an enlightened despot who laid the foundations of modern Europe" or "a megalomaniac who wrought greater misery than any man before the coming of Hitler"...41 KB (4,866 words) - 18:33, 28 May 2024- Imperial, royal and noble ranks (redirect from List of royal titles)first used in Urdu around 1600 to mean Governor of the realm or Deputy for the Whole Empire. Despot, Greek for "lord, master", initially an appellation...75 KB (9,687 words) - 16:33, 6 September 2024
military and industrial techniques. His style of governing resembled that of contemporary enlightened despots in Central Europe. He exercised executive,...26 KB (2,664 words) - 11:33, 27 August 2024- 2046 after being cryogenically frozen in the last days of World War II. Finding an enlightened society which has long eschewed weapons, the unit swiftly...75 KB (8,097 words) - 16:37, 1 June 2024
In the framework of Josephinism, Joseph sought to centralize control of the empire and to rule it by decree as an enlightened despot. He refused to take...43 KB (4,635 words) - 14:39, 1 August 2024
military and industrial techniques. His style of governing resembled that of contemporary enlightened despots in Central Europe. He exercised executive,...28 KB (3,223 words) - 00:52, 27 August 2024- known as the Kingdom of Sardinia or the "Sardinian Kingdom". Victor Amadeus II, who belonged to the generation of enlightened despots, managed his states...68 KB (7,972 words) - 21:25, 28 August 2024
- Ghobadi Hooligan Sparrow by Nanfu Wang The Land of the Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue The Lovers and the Despot by Robert Cannan & Ross Adam Plaza de la Soledad...15 KB (1,312 words) - 16:57, 27 August 2024
Dictator novel (redirect from List of books depicting Latin American caudillos)provincial caudillo, who like Rosas (dictator of Argentina from 1829 to 1853) was opposed to the enlightened ideas of progress. After returning from exile, Sarmiento...44 KB (5,599 words) - 01:12, 11 August 2024
Montesquieu (category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences)which rely on the principle of virtue; and despotisms (unfree), headed by despots which rely on fear. The free governments are dependent on constitutional...35 KB (3,875 words) - 03:01, 6 September 2024- Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled from 1760 to 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers (called "Hessians") to Great...355 KB (41,625 words) - 18:45, 2 September 2024
to say, not a whisper does he breathe against the claim set up by the Despots of the Earth over their Continental subjects, but does every thing in his...263 KB (37,620 words) - 23:01, 30 July 2024
an "enlightened despot", who ruled at will. The Age of Freedom and party politics was over. Precocious and well-educated, he became a patron of the arts...67 KB (8,499 words) - 19:42, 25 August 2024
- inevitable results, and Mehemet Ali in the eyes of the world was at once the most enlightened and the most powerful of the sultan’s valis. To Mahmud II., whose
- none of the workers’ business — we can make more vivid the fact that workers are laboring under arbitrary, unaccountable dictatorships. "Where Despots Rule"
- prominent. Adam Smith's concept of free market capitalism sent European economics in a new direction. Enlightened despots such as Catherine the Great and