Bisaltia, along with Crestonia, was ruled by a Thracian prince at the time of the invasion of Xerxes I of Persia, but by the onset of the Peloponnesian War it was annexed to Macedon.

A few months before his paternal second cousin Greek King Philip V of Macedon ’ s death, Echecrates ' son Antigonus revealed to Philip that Philip's son, the prince Perseus of Macedon, had made false accusations against his brother, Philip's other son, Demetrius, whom Philip had then had put to death.

After Tuyuhun Kingdom was destroyed by the Tibetans in 670, its famous prince, Tuoba Chici, who controlled the " Dangxiang Qiang " submitted under the Tang Dynasty and was " bestowed " with the royal name of Li ( 李 ).

The director was famous for " laugh machines " and hilarious farces, while Willis was known as " the prince of darkness " for work on dramatic films like The Godfather.

The founder of the Tangut, the Tuoba Xianbei, was a famous prince of the Tuyuhun Empire ( 284 – 670 ), Tuoba Chici.

This chapter is possibly the most well-known of the work, and it is important because of the reasoning behind Machiavelli ’ s famous idea that it is better to be feared than loved – his justification is purely pragmatic ; as he notes, “ Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself feared .” Fear is simply a means to an end, and that end is security for the prince.

As a prince and future emperor, Verus received careful education from the famous “ grammaticus ” Marcus Cornelius Fronto.

This did not stop Philip's becoming known for his numerous affairs, particularly with actresses ; the most famous of these was his actress-mistress María Inés Calderón ( La Calderona ), with whom he had a son in 1629, Juan José, who was brought up as a royal prince.

The famous Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas was the prince of Grodno from 1376 to 1392, and he stayed there during his preparations for the Battle of Grunwald ( 1410 ).

The prince of Changsha was a brother of Emperor Wu, a famous emperor of the Former Han, and he was the son of Emperor Jing.

In that period Doclea was leading fierce fights against its neighbours-the Byzantine Empire and Samuil's " The West Bulgarian State "-and the most famous ruler of Doclea, prince Vladimir had its seat in Krajina, near Bar.

The first prince of Lampedusa and Linosa was Giulio Tomasi, ancestor of the famous writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who received the title from Charles II of Spain in 1630.

Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbian medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava.

In Book XII, the Trojan prince Sarpedon delivers a famous speech in which he urges his comrade Glaucus to fight with him in the front ranks of battle.

Perhaps Rhos-on-Sea's greatest claim to fame is that, according to legend, Madog ap Owain Gwynedd, a Welsh prince of Gwynedd, sailed from here in 1170 and discovered America, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's famous voyage in 1492.

The unhappy prince was defeated by his father at Aybar, in 1451, and held a prisoner for two years, during which he wrote his famous Chronicle of Navarre, the source of our present knowledge of this subject.

* Cem Sultan, a Turkish prince made famous by his extended captivity in the West

It was mentioned as one of Severian towns by Prince Igor in The Tale of Igor's Campaign: " As to my Kurskers, they are famous knights — swaddled under war-horns, nursed under helmets, fed from the point of the lance ; to them the trails are familiar, to them the ravines are known, the bows they have are strung tight, the quivers, unclosed, the sabers, sharpened ; themselves, like gray wolves, they lope in the field, seeking for themselves honor, and for their prince, glory.

The most famous collector of all, the French prince John, Duke of Berry ( 1340 – 1416 ) owned several books of hours, some of which survive, including the most celebrated of all, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

The most famous of the district's many lakes is Lake Saiful Muluk, named in a folktale — the Qissa Saiful Muluk — about a romance between a Persian prince and a fairy princess.

Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov () ( 30 May 1782 – 18 Nov 1856 ), was a Russian prince and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars, and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853.

Nadareishvili was a great grandson of the famous Abkhaz prince Shervashidze.

Moreover, he is one of the primary symbols of the conflict between humans and Deryni, given his famous history as a Deryni noble who overthrew a Deryni king to place a human prince on the throne.

In 1806, Napoleon, after conquering Benevento, named as prince the famous Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, but the title had no significance and it left with Napoleon in 1815.

In 1242, Bishop Hermann with his Ugaunian subjects was defeated by Novgorod's prince Alexander Nevsky in famous Battle on Lake Peipus.

She made herself even more famous by her love affairs, especially by her long liaison with the prince de Soubise.

In 148 BC, in what the Romans called the Fourth Macedonian War, he was defeated by the Roman praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus ( 148 ) at the Second Battle of Pydna, and fled to Thrace, whose prince gave him up to Rome, thus marking the final end to Andriskos ' reign of Macedonia.

Since that law was repealed in the aftermath of World War II, the present Emperor Akihito became the first crown prince for over a thousand years to have an empress outside the previously eligible circle.

In Greek mythology, Hectōr (), or Hektōr, was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.

The Kaiser took a mostly unilateral approach in Europe with as main ally the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an arms race with Britain, which eventually led to the situation in which the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian crown prince could spark off World War I.

As a temporal prince who constructed stout fortresses in the Papal States, Sixtus IV committed himself to Venice's aggression against Ercole I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara, inciting the Venetians to attack in 1482 in the so-called War of Ferrara.

During the Polish-Austrian War of 1809 it was captured by prince Józef Poniatowski and joined with the Duchy of Warsaw, but after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 it was joined with the Kingdom of Poland.

His father was Christian Augustus ( 1673 — 1726 ) duke and a younger prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, prince-bishop of Lubeck, and administrator, during the Great Northern War, of the duchies of Holstein-Gottorp for his relative Charles Frederick.

There followed the long Navarrese Civil War, with alternations of success and defeat, ending only with the death of the prince of Viana, perhaps by poison given him by his stepmother, in 1461.

Rupert was born in Prague in 1619, at the start of the Thirty Years ' War, to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, and was declared a prince by the principality of Lusatia.

During the Seven Years ' War he served successively under Louis Charles César Le Tellier, duc d ' Estrées, Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, and Contades, being present at all the battles from Hastenbeck onwards.

The last prince of Lippe was forced to abdicate in 1918 after the end of World War I when Germany became a republic ; his country became a Freistaat in the German republic.

He was rightly regarded by German patriots as the statesman who had done most to encourage the spirit of national independence ; and immediately after he had signed the first peace of Paris he was raised to the rank of prince ( June 3, 1814 ) in recognition of the part he had played in the War of Liberation.

He fought in the War against Napoleon ( 1813 – 1814 ) under the crown prince Bernadotte, with whom, after his accession to the throne as Charles XIV, he was in high favour.

At the end of World War I, and during the German Revolution, resulting in the fall of all the German monarchies, the prince abdicated and Waldeck and Pyrmont became a free state within the Weimar Republic.

During the Cold War the idea ( first advanced by Wilhelm Gesenius in the mid-1800s ) that Russia itself had the role of Gog gained popularity ( since Ezekiel's words describing him as " prince of Meshek "-rosh meshek in Hebrew-sounded suspiciously like Russia and Moscow ).

Though Frederick III held the elevated status of a prince elector, this status was also gained by Maximilian I of Bavaria in 1623, during the Thirty Years ' War, also by the Elector of the Palatinate in the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), and by Ernest Augustus of the House of Hanover in 1692.

Three more topics occupied a great deal of his time: the struggle over the Jülich-Cleves inheritance, which was set to ignite the Thirty Years War, the flight of the prince de Condé from France in objection to Henri IV's divorce and remarriage, and the degree of toleration for Catholics in England and Ireland under James I.

Bernard of Saxe-Weimar () ( 16 August 1604 – 18 July 1639 ) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years ' War.

In the seventh year of the Trojan War, a Trojan prince named Troilus falls in love with Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan priest who has defected to the Greek side.

The newly founded Kingdom of Romania — led by the Hohenzollern prince Carol I — fought a War of Independence against the Ottomans, and was recognized in 1878.

Through the recommendation of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough he became aide-de-camp to the prince, and during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716 – 18 he served with distinction in the campaign against the Turks.

In 1808 he served in the Peninsular War, and in 1809 in the Austrian War, after which he was given the title of prince of Wagram.

The double title ( a prince and a duc ) both Prussian and French, served to render the duc de Sagan a neutral party in World War II: his Château de Valençay provided a safe haven for treasures of the Louvre during the German occupation of France.