Before its domination by the Silla kingdom (57 bc ad 935) in 512, it was an independent kingdom named Usan-guk.
In 1860, however, British naturalist John Hogg took exception to the imposition of the plant and animal categories on the protists and proposed a fourth kingdom, named Protoctista (the other three kingdoms encompassed the animals, the plants, and the minerals).
The Oscar nominee behind The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom names Roman Polanski's creepy Rosemary's Baby as his favourite film and has always been fascinated by the horror genre.
Alexander the Great occupied Media in 330, and in the partition of his empire, southern Media was given to the Macedonian commander Peithon and eventually passed to the Seleucids, but the north was left to Atropates, a former general of Darius III, who succeeded in founding an independent kingdom, named Atropatene, with its capital at Gazaca.
At the time the relief was made, Meroë was the center of a kingdom named Kush, its borders stretching as far north as the southern edge of Egypt.
The island and the rest of the former Illyrian Provinces were made a separate crown land, named Kingdom of Dalmatia, in 1817.
What survives are the kingdoms' names — Funan, in today's Vietnam; Kedah, on the Strait of Malacca; Dvaravati, covering most of Thailand — and the religious art that testifies to the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the region.
Coming up with your kingdom's name might be a little hard; if you're having trouble, take some name ideas from the kingdom itself!
"We are a united Kingdom in name only," said the London Labour MP and remain campaigner Chuka Umunna.
There were story lines galore, many heartwarming and some heartbreaking: Big Brown, Eight Belles, steroids, no steroids, Mine That Bird, Rachel Alexandra, Calvin Bo-Rail and Animal Kingdom to name a few.
