This state of subservience to the central government was ended during the reign of Chagatai's grandson Alghu ( 1260 – 1266 ), who took advantage of the civil war between Khubilai and Ariq Boke by revolting against the latter, seizing new territories and gaining the allegiance of the Great Khan's authorities in Transoxiana.

The main territory of the ulus ( district ) was situated between rivers Sura and Tsna.

When Talabuga challenged Nogai, who had established a de facto independent ulus ( district ) in the westernmost part of the Horde, Nogai organized a coup, and replaced him with Toqta in 1291.

Proponents point to the fact that the Mongol court was frequented by Russian princes, notably Yaroslavl's Feodor the Black, who boasted his own ulus near Sarai, and Novgorod's Alexander Nevsky, the sworn brother ( or anda ) of Batu's successor Sartaq Khan.

In the 1240s, Genghis's descendant Güyük Khan wrote a letter to Pope Innocent IV which used the preamble, " Dalai ( great / oceanic ) Khagan of the great Mongol state ( ulus )".

His ulus, or territorial inheritance, at his father's death in 1227 was the homelands in Mongolia, and it was he who served as civil administrator in the time it took to confirm Ögedei as second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire ( 1206 – 1368 ).

Under Jochi's son Batu, Mongol rule expanded to its westernmost limit, and the Golden Horde ( Kipchak Khanate ) was established to consolidate the Jochid ulus.

The Crimean Khanate was founded when certain clans of the Golden Horde Empire ceased their nomadic life in the Desht-i Kipchak ( Kypchak Steppes of today's Ukraine and southern Russia ) and decided to make Crimea their yurt ( homeland ), which at that time had been an ulus ( district ) of the Golden Horde since 1239, with its capital at Qirim ( Staryi Krym ).

His ulus was the chief state of the Golden Horde ( or Kipchak Khanate ), which ruled Rus and the Caucasus for around 250 years, after also destroying the armies of Poland and Hungary.

The suffix "- ulus " is masculine and a diminutive, so " Romulus " means " the little boy from Rome.

*- ulus ,-ula ,-ulum, e. g. globulus ( globule ) from globus ( globe ).

It is located about 2, 800 km northeast of Yakutsk and 120 km southwest from the Belaya Gora, ulus ' administrative center.

Meanwhile, in Transoxiana the Qara ' unas lost their status as de facto leaders of the Chagatai ulus ; they were replaced by Buyan Suldus, an easygoing and ineffective amir.

The term " district " is also used to refer to the type of administrative division of the Sakha Republic — ulus (; ).

Kalmyk Tayishis, by contrast, were given salaries and towns and settlements were established for them and their ulus ( Khodarkovsky, 1992: 39 ).

Following his death, Öljeitü made Coban his chief military commander ( amir of the ulus ).

Qara Hülëgü ( died 1252 ) was head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate ( 1242-1246, 1252 ).

Yesü Möngke ( died 1252 ) was head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate ( 1246 or 1247-1252 ).

Mounted soldiers began to secure a system of hereditary rule over their allocated land and their power over the territory came to encompass the social, political, judicial, and economic spheres.

In 1525, the Order was ousted from East Prussian territory by its own Hochmeister when Albert, Duke of Prussia adopted Lutheranism and assumed the title of duke as hereditary ruler under the overlordship of Poland in the Prussian Homage.

A lord of even a quite small territory might come to be referred to as a prince before the 13th century, either from translations of a native title into the Latin princeps ( as for the hereditary ruler of Wales ), or when the lord's territory was allodial.

" Though the first French and British colonizers of Canada interpreted the hereditary nature of some indigenous North American chieftainships as a form of monarchy, it is generally accepted that Canada has been a territory of a monarch or a monarchy in its own right only since the establishment of New France in the early 17th century ; according to historian Jacques Monet, the Canadian Crown is one of the few that have survived through uninterrupted succession since before its inception.

The title " King of the Belgians " indicates a popular monarchy linked to the people of Belgium ( i. e., a living and hereditary Head of State ; yet ratified by popular will ), whereas the former would indicate standard constitutional or absolute monarchy linked to territory or state.

When Cato was a very young man, the death of his father put him in possession of a small hereditary property in the Sabine territory, at a distance from his native town.

The fortification of Bouillon Castle was, along with the County of Verdun, the core of the possessions of the Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty, and their combined territory was a complex mixture of fiefs, allodial land and other hereditary rights throughout the area.

Nonetheless, the stable territory borders realised with the political progress achieved by the late middle ages ( AD 1300 – 1500 ) and the early modern era ( AD 1500 ) gradually diminished the politico-military distinctions of superior rank among margraves and the other hereditary lords of the kingdom.

Władysław was fed up with the weak position of the king in the Commonwealth ; some of his politics revolved around a failed attempt to secure a small, preferably hereditary territory – like a duchy – in which his position would be much stronger.

Colonization was effectively begun in 1534, when Dom João III divided the territory into twelve hereditary captaincies, a model that had previously been used successfully in the colonization of the Madeira Island, but this arrangement proved problematic and in 1549 the king assigned a Governor-General to administer the entire colony, Tomé de Sousa.

Sovereigns of smaller states are typically styled with lesser titles of aristocracy such as Duke of a Duchy or Marquis rather than as hereditary sovereign Princes who do not ascend to kingship as in the European case of the Principality of Monaco, and dynasties which gained or lost significant territory might change the titles of successive rulers from sovereign to aristocratic titles or vice versa, either by self-designation of the ruler or through imposed entitlement from a conquering state.

They eventually made the office hereditary in the ruling house of Lower Kartli, thus inaugurating the Kartli pitiaxate, which brought an extensive territory under its control.

After the creation of the Tokugawa shogunate, parts of the province were assigned as feudal domains to trusted hereditary retainers as fudai daimyo, with large portions retained as tenryō territory administered by various hatamoto directly under the shogunate.

Between 1720 and 1725, Charles concluded a series of treaties by which the various estates of the Habsburg lands recognized the unity of the territory under Habsburg rule and accepted hereditary Habsburg succession, including the female line.

Austria and Prussia were allowed to keep some of their Polish territory while a new, nominally independent Polish kingdom was established with the Romanov dynasty of Russia as its hereditary monarchs.

In 1461, Mehmed II expelled the last of the Isfendyarid dynasty from Sinop, awarding him lands near Bursa in exchange for his hereditary territory.

The British on their part, refused to recognise Sultan Ali's will on his son's ( Tengku Mahmud ) hereditary claims to the Kesang territory.

Tengku Alam's supporters argued that the 1855 secession treaty which Sultan Ali had signed with Temenggong of Johor guaranteed the hereditary rights of Sultan Ali's family members to the Kesang territory.

Sultan's decrees of 1830 and 1833 expanded the same rights to a larger territory, and made Serbia a sovereign principality with Miloš Obrenović as hereditary prince.

There are no elections on the territory ; the position of the monarch is hereditary and the commissioner and administrator are appointed by the monarch.

Alongside the Shōni clan, whose hereditary clan heads now regularly operated under Sō clan guidance, the Sō fought the Ōuchi numerous times across the Sengoku period ( 1467-1600 ), and later the Mōri and Ōtomo clans as well ; the clan lost and regained their territory in Chikuzen province on Kyūshū many times over the course of the period.

Philip II of Spain bestowed the territory on Cosimo as a hereditary fiefdom in July 1557.

The Eastphalian territory at the Harz mountain range was the hereditary lands of Henry the Fowler, the first Saxon duke to become King of the Romans in 919, and his descendants of the Ottonian dynasty.