- Look up
despot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Despot may
refer to:
Despot (court title), a
Byzantine court title Despotism, a form of
government in...
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which limit respect and
power to
specific groups have also been
called despotic. Colloquially, the word
despot applies pejoratively to
those who use their...
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Absolute monarchy is a form of
monarchy in
which the
sovereign is the sole
source of
political power,
unconstrained by constitutions,
legislatures or other...
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thought the
Safavid Shahs ruled their land with an iron fist and
often in a
despotic manner.
Complex rivalries in the
region of
Khorasan led to the
Afghan Hotak...
- to his
political plan. Chun and his
government held
South Korea under a
despotic rule
until 1987, when a
Seoul National University student, Park Jong-chul...
- Washington, D.C.,
during a
civil war
fought across the
United States between a
despotic federal government and
secessionist movements to
interview the president...
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confound the
bickering Oriental Christians, to
liberate the
Orient from the
despotic rule of the
Romans and Persians, and to
spread the
knowledge of the unity...
- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant is a
despotic ruler or person.
Tyrant may also
refer to:
Bands Tyrant (****anese band), a black...
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installed Bavarian Prince Otto von
Wittelsbach as monarch. Otto's
reign was
despotic, and in its
first 11
years of
independence Greece was
ruled by a Bavarian...
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within the
reach of the full
powers of rule, may at will
exercise almost despotic sway
within their own shires, and may
sometimes threaten to
convulse even...
