suzerains

Kalandar; but all replied like the first, “By Allah, O our mistress, each one of us cometh from a different country, and we are all three the sons of Kings, sovereign Princes ruling over suzerains and capital cities.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A suzani is some sort of ethnic decor thingy often found in the bedrooms of blogress suzerains like Ann Althouse.

"What breaks my heart are the really useful things that are now everywhere. A suzani can totally rock a bedroom..." Ann Althouse 2007

The departure of the French from Egypt was not achieved by the Egyptians, nor by their suzerains, the Turks.

What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response 2001

The Yadavas, early suzerains of a score of petty vassal kings, occupied in turn three capitals: (modern) Chandor and Sinnar (1069), both near Nasik, and the fortress of Devagiri (c. 1111), renamed Daulatabad (1327).

753-973 2001

To Mithridates it was rightfully his, if for no other reason than that its king regarded the Kings of Pontus as his suzerains rather than the Kings of Armenia.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Tigranes had slunk off with the mien of a whipped cur the moment he could secure leave from his suzerains, returned to where his new city of Tigranocerta was having its streets surveyed.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Scotland alike, it mattered little that he had now but one liege lord instead of two suzerains.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Herod follows -- a foreign king and an Edomite; and the Romans are over all, suzerains and rulers.

The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

They granted out their vast possessions as fiefs, and thus became suzerains and lords.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

By a personal force and ability surpassing any of the nobles of his time, he justified the confidence of the suzerains he successively served.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven