Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

The unrest continued until the ruling prince gave up his claim to the two towns ( some 95 % of the country ), and they were ceded to France in return for four million francs.

" To retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain the socio-political institutions to which the people are accustomed ; whereas a new prince has the more difficult task in ruling, since he must first stabilize his new-found power in order to build an enduring political structure.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

" The captured Magyars were either executed, or sent back to their ruling prince, Taksony, missing their ears and noses.

* Gruffydd Fychan I, last ruling prince of Powys Fadog

* Árpád, Hungarian ruling prince ( ruled 895 – 907 )

Cadets of France's princes étrangers began to affect similar usage but when, for example, the House of La Tour d ' Auvergne's ruling dukes of Bouillon, attempted to use the same style, it was initially resisted by historians such as Père Anselme – who, however, willingly recognized use of territorial titles, i. e. he accepts that the ducal heir apparent is known as prince de Bouillon, but would record in 1728 only that the heir's cousin, the comte d ' Oliergues was " known as the Prince Frederick " (" dit le prince Frédéric ").

In 1424 when Henry VI's ruling council released James it expected the Scottish king to be compliant, to keep the peace between the kingdoms and to stop Scottish support for France but by 1430 he would emerge as a confident and independent minded European prince.

In the 11th century, Atisha studied in Srivijaya under Serlingpa, an eminent Buddhist scholar and a prince of the Srivijayan ruling house.

Grand duke is also the usual and established translation of grand prince in languages which do not differentiate between princes who are children of a monarch ( e. g. German Prinz ) and ruling princes ( e. g. German Fürst ).

The new ruling prince had not had any previous training in governing, and a range of problems confronted him.

Both titles ( and the associate offices ) went by default to the ruling prince, which-as a sovereign ruler-had all land in allodium and was the chief commander of the army.

* The Second Heiress, if mother of the ruling prince: Sri Patmanabha Sevini Vanchipala Dyumani Raj Rajeshwari Maharani Maharani ( personal name ) Bai, Junior Maharani of Travancore, with the style of Her Highness.

* The consort of the ruling prince: ( mother's house name ) Ammachi Panapilla Amma Srimathi ( personal name ) Pilla Kochamma.

* The sons of the ruling prince: Sri ( mother's house name ) ( personal name ) Tampi.

* The daughters of the ruling prince: ( mother's house name ) Ammaveetil Srimathi ( personal name ) Pilla Kochamma.

Such positions can occur in the household of a non-member of a ruling family, such as a prince of the church:

In Vientiane, a Minister of State, Pra Woh, had rebelled against the ruling prince and fled to the Champasak territory, where he set himself up at Donmotdang near the present city of Ubon.

The last ruling prince, Frederick, was the brother of Queen consort Emma of the Netherlands.

A prince from the overthrown Byzantine ruling family, Michael Comnenus, made alliances with Albanian chiefs and drove the Venetians from lands that now make up southern Albania and northern Greece, and in 1204 he set up an independent principality, the Despotate of Epirus, with Ioannina in northwest Greece ) as its capital.

Allegedly, but improbably, from the end of the 9th century, the principality of Capua claimed Gaeta as a courtesy title for the younger son of its ruling prince.

In Hinduism, certain dynasties adopted a title expressing their positions as " servant " of a patron deity of the state, but in the sense of a ( prime ) minister under a figure head of state, ruling " in the name of " the patron god ( ess ), such as Patmanabha Dasa ( servant of Vishnu ) in the case of the Maharaja of Travancore.

The female equivalent title Maharani ( or Maharanee, Mahārājñī ) denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right.

Most of the territory of this province was originally a part of the Afghan Durrani Kingdom from the 18th century to around the 1820s, when the Sikh ruler or Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the former mayor of the Afghan city of Lahore, taking advantage of the internal chaos of the Afghan ruling family, declared independence and annexed it to his own empire based out of the Punjab.

* 24 June-Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur ( b. 1911 ).

* 21 August-Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur ( died 1970 ).

They frequently intermarried with the ruling families of the princely states such as Sita Devi of Baroda's marriage ( daughter of Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the Zamindar of Pithapuram ), to Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda.

Yeshwantrao Holkar II, the last ruling Maharaja Holkar

Maharaja Hari Singh ( born 21 September 1895 in Jammu ; died 26 April 1961 in Bombay, India ) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

HH Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, Rana Arvind Singh Mewar, Prince Shivraj Singh of Jodhpur ( Marwar-Jodhpur ) and Kirit Bikram Deb Burman: Erstwhile Maharaja of Tripura from the second oldest continuing ruling lineage after the Mikados of Japan.

The ruling prince was known as the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda, or more commonly as the Gaekwad.

Upon India attaining its independence in 1947, the last ruling Maharaja of Baroda acceded to India.

In the days of the British Raj, as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, she ranked among the highest royal figures of the land.

Madhavrao was born to the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, George Jivajirao Scindia.

Chama Raja Wadiyar X ( 1863 – 94 ) ( also known as Chama Rajendra Wadiyar X ) was the ruling Maharaja of Mysore between 1881 and 1894.

In the 13th century, the Baghels took over, ruling from Bandhavgarh until 1617, when Maharaja Vikramaditya Singh moved his capital to Rewa.

* Hari Singh ( 1895 – 1961 ), last ruling Maharaja of the princely state / Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

# Her elder son, Jagaddipendra Narayan, succeeded his father as Maharaja of Cooch Behar, and was the last ruling prince of his dynasty ; Cooch Behar was merged with the dominion of India ( later the union of India ) during his reign.

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV KCSI, GBE ( June 4, 1884-August 3, 1940, Bangalore Palace ), also known popularly as Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore from 1902 until his death in 1940.

Krishna IV was invested as the Maharaja of Mysore, with full ruling powers, by the Viceroy Lord Curzon on August 8, 1902 at a ceremony at Jagan Mohan Palace ( now the Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery ).

The earliest king Ganga Raju was ruling over Nandapur, a former capital of the Maharaja of Jeypore.

* Jayachamaraja Wodeyar, last ruling Maharaja of Mysore

Soon after his return to Kerala, he paid a visit to the then ruling Maharaja ( king ) of Travancore, Swathi Thirunal.