principalities

What they mean is the average of absolute tuition maxima across universities and colleges -- something that only the royal families of Persian Gulf principalities pay.

What began as a rejection of externally imposed values devolved into a mouthpiece of the current powers and principalities.

This is a good thing for the current powers and principalities who want to remain unchecked in their actions.

Common sense was that hundreds of independent principalities with mutually unintelligible languages could never integrate into Germany and Italy.

In both cases there were a bunch of unaligned tribes or much smaller principalities with no real national identity.

India, the Middle-East and Europe, all expanded at a certain time via tribal groups maturing into land-owning, army building principalities.

At one point there was 300 principalities in the region now known as Germany.

For instance, being able to show the Holy Roman Empire above its various duchies/principalities etc, and those above their various counties etc.

It also happened post Napoleon (occupation in parts) and that definitely may have helped gel latent ethnic affinity between the various German principalities.

Ok I'll bite - what are the names of these principalities and where are the boundaries?

You end up with a morass of principalities and wanna-be-kings who all have their own different view of what Linux on the desktop should be.

Before this time, political organizations consisted of kingdoms, principalities, city-states, tribes, and various other small groupings of people.

Funnily, Google completes my phrase "an account of the principalities of wallachia and moldavia inspired this author's famous novel" but is completely clueless.

Wrongly shows the Romanian Principalities as "part of the Ottoman Empire".

"Germany going from a collection of principalities to the most powerful nation in Europe" was one of those conditions.