From the Napoleonic age to the dynasties that survive into the present.
8 dynasties
Georgia (Caucasus) · 780 – 1810
The Bagrationi dynasty was the royal house of Georgia, ruling the medieval Kingdom of Georgia from its unification in 1008 until the Russian annexation in 1801. Tracing its origins to the 8th century, it produced some of the most consequential monarchs of the Caucasus, including David IV the Builder and Tamar the Great, under whom Georgia entered its Golden Age.
85 figures
Horn of Africa / Ethiopia · 1270 – 1974
One of the longest-ruling royal houses in history, claiming direct descent from the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
2 figures
Austria / Holy Roman Empire · 1273 – 1918
The senior Habsburg line, ruling from a single Swiss county at the time of Rudolf I's imperial election in 1273 to the abdication of Karl I in 1918. Between those endpoints they wore the Holy Roman crown almost continuously from 1438, brought Hungary and Bohemia into a single hereditary inheritance, weathered the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic dissolution of the Empire, and ruled the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy until the First World War destroyed it. Their continental dominance was built less by conquest than by marriage — bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria, nube.
24 figures
Anatolia / Balkans / Middle East · 1299 – 1922
One of history's most powerful states, bridging Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa for over 600 years.
3 figures
Korean Peninsula · 1392 – 1897
The final and longest-lived imperial dynasty of Korea, known for its strong Neo-Confucian ideology and high cultural achievement.
3 figures
South Asia / North India · 1526 – 1857
A Turco-Mongol dynasty that synthesized Persian and Indian cultures, overseeing an era of unparalleled artistic and economic prosperity.
3 figures
Japan · 1603 – 1868
A centralized military dictatorship that brought 250 years of stability and isolation to Japan during the Edo period.
2 figures
Russia / Eurasia · 1613 – 1917
Ruled Russia for over 300 years, transforming a marginalized state into a transcontinental Eurasian empire through autocratic modernization and expansion.
4 figures