dukedom

Churchill was famously offered a dukedom by both The Queen and George VI, turning down both.

Where is the north/east dukedoms have existed without interruption, growing and expanding and ultimately getting unified into Moscow dukedom (later tzardom) which continuing expanding became the Russian empire.

There is no difference in between a feudal lord that owned a dukedom and someone rich who owned a large part of a US state, before or after the rebellion.

In reality, he's the former Prime Minister of a dukedom of about half a million people (about the size of Fresno, California) but is now President of the European Commission.

The Russian aristocrats direct descendants of the one of the early Kievan Rus Viking ruler - Rurik (whose descendants ruled the Rus and later the Moscow dukedom for centuries) - are still around.

Using this as a counterpoint to accusations of the rich taking all the gains is like pointing out that a wealthy duke could only pass his whole dukedom to one of his children, and the others would have to make do with much less.

Grand Duchy of Moscow) into a small dukedom far in the forests, and in case of Turkey - for example the post WW1 partitioning plan for Osman Empire included partitioning of what is modern Turkey territory.

> Where is the north/east dukedoms have existed without interruption, growing and expanding and ultimately getting unified into Moscow dukedom The norther part of Rus escaped the Mongol devastation because if was unimportant backwater.

> The Russian aristocrats direct descendants of the one of the early Kievan Rus Viking ruler - Rurik (whose descendants ruled the Rus and later the Moscow dukedom for centuries) - are still around.

My ancestors from a nobility family (schlyahta) of Grand Douchy of Livonia from before the union with Poland were fighting Moscow Dukedom and later Russian Empire for half a millennia, with for example a far relative being among the leaders of the 1863 Polish uprising.

In that particular case the Kolomoisky dukedom happened to be right next to the insurgency and he, like it were the actual feudal times, had to "raise the fyrd" so to speak to protect his dukedom and the whole kingdom by extension - his forces were among the key ones who blocked the insurgency from expanding further in the first months when the Ukrainian state and army were kind of in disarray.