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The word kingdom is used to designate those territorial units that are organized under the power of the figure of a king. The kingdoms were politico-administrative units especially characteristic of other times, especially of the Middle Ages, but today you can find some cases, perhaps a bit anachronistic, of countries that are officially known as kingdoms and in which a monarchy or royalty is the one that exercises the government.

Kingdoms are defined primarily by who rules or administers them. In this sense, in a kingdom we always find a monarchy that consists of a single person at the head of the government and that, Regardless of the variants that can be found for each case, it tends to carry out a government of a centralist type and strong. Kingdoms can also have different institutions advisory bodies that fulfill precisely an advisory function to the king but do not have the power of decision by themselves. These institutions used to be made up of nobles and people close to the king instead of being open to all of society.

The Middle Ages saw an interesting flowering of this type of Unitpolitics and territorial, mainly due to the collapse of the Roman empire and the emergence of smaller forms that sought to reorganize after such a fall. Thus, numerous and small kingdoms such as the Frankish, the Ostrogoth, the Gothic, the Anglo-Saxon and many were found in the geographical space of Europe. others that had quite similar general characteristics: an important army and military organization, kings who based their power on the inheritance family, pagan traditions and a hierarchy very marked social. Kingdoms, being rather small territorial units, used to easily go to war or war conflicts due to disputes in relation to the spaces in which they were located, possible expansions or annexations.