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liam_laddie

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7. Kaiser=Caesar

Reply to Chipper Chat (Reply #2)

Sun May 20, 2012, 02:43 PM

May 2012

Term has been in use since Julius and his Roman successors ran the region until ~440 CE or so.
The term usually defines the ruler over many lesser territories, if memory serves (which these days is just occasionally) --- explains the "count-less" castles thereabouts.

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