Shah ʿĀlam II, original name ʿAlī Gauhar (born June 15 , 1728 Delhi [India] died Nov. 10, 1806, Delhi) nominal Mughal emperor of India from 1759 to 1806.
June 15 , 1728Delhi, India November 10, 1806 Delhi, India Shah ʿĀlam II, original name ʿAlī Gauhar (born June 15 , 1728 Delhi [India] died Nov. 10, 1806, Delhi) nominal Mughal emperor of India from 1759 to 1806.
Under his immediate predecessors, Italy had been ruled by a barbarian, the Ostrogoth Theodoric, who, though virtually independent, was the nominal representative of the Byzantine emperor.
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Tuscany's nominal feudal over-lord, subscribed, but only if he should succeed her.
The reigning Song empress dowager and the nominal emperor a boy were taken to Dadu and granted an audience by Kublai Khan.
The main European courts were those of the Holy Roman emperors (who had nominal suzerainty over central Europe and who at this time had their capital at Prague), the Visconti of Milan, the Valois of France, and the Plantagenets of England.
Odoacer pushed Ricimer's politics to its logical conclusion and ruled without an emperor except for the nominal recognition of Constantinople as supreme authority.
However, the emperor's power was only nominal by this time, and Brandenburg soon came to be treated as a de facto province of the Prussian kingdom.
Although the Grand Commandant had a nominal role as commander-in-chief, the emperor served as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
After an inconclusive start, on the second day, an Imperial pennant was remitted to the defending troops, and a relative of the Emperor, Ninnajinomiya Yoshiaki, was named nominal commander in chief, making the forces officially an imperial army.
There, in this period, the first nominal ruler of Rus (called, like the Khazar emperor, khagan) is mentioned by Islamic and Western sources.
