Officially known as the principality of Sealand, Sealand is technically the smallest nation in the world.

官方名称叫做西兰公国，实际上世界上最小国家。

In 1221, the Mongols moved into northern Afghanistan, and in 1222, they defeated a combined army of Rus principalities.

1221 年，蒙古人进入阿富汗北部，1222 年，他们击败了罗斯公国联合军队。

It was tons of different principalities and city-states and everything else.

那同公国和城邦以及其他一切。

All this loot helped Moscow expand their influence and buy principalities.

所有这些战利品都帮助莫斯科扩大了影响力并购买了公国。

Our principality is less than one square mile.

我们国土足一平方英里。

I don't think the Principality of Monaco's yacht counts as a cruise, Mr. Humphrey.

我认为摩纳哥公国私家游艇能被称作为游轮 汉弗瑞先生。

The principality has long been popular with European tax dodgers, but growth accelerated when Swiss banks hawked Liechtenstein foundations to clients worldwide.

列支敦士登公国很久以来都欧洲避税者理想地，瑞士银行向全球客户兜售该国基金又进一步促使了该国经济发展。

The guy even sounded exotic. He came from Italy, but had moved to Monaco, the principality famous for not levying income tax.

这家伙甚至听起来很有异国情调。他从意大利来到摩纳哥，这个公国以征收所得税而闻名。

So this is all for the benefit of the good people of the principality of Monaco?

你这么做 全都为了摩纳哥公国里公民好了？

Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.

君主国世袭新。在世袭君主国里，长期以来君主后裔那里君主。

I'm so disappointed that I can't spend all day with you before you rush off to your principality.

很抱歉我能在你们去教会前一直都陪着你们。

In response to a Russian attack on their Danubian principalities, the Ottomans declared war on Russia in October 1853.

作为对俄罗斯对瑙河公国攻击回应，奥斯曼帝国于 1853 年 10 月向俄罗斯宣战。

Bismarck (1815-1898), the great German statesman, the one man responsible for welding a German nation out of the many German principalities.

俾斯麦（Bismarck， 1815-1898 年）， 伟大德国政治家， 负责将德意志民族从众德国公国中融合出来人。

It was also seen in the Balkans, where Greece gained its independence in 1832 and Christian principalities fought a war against the Ottomans in 1878.

它也出现在巴尔干半岛，希腊于 1832 年获得独立， 基督教公国于 1878 年与奥斯曼帝国作战。

In Osman's time, the Anatolian peninsula was a patchwork of Turkic principalities sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Rum.

在奥斯曼时代，安纳托利亚半岛夹在摇摇欲坠拜占庭帝国和削弱朗姆塞尔柱苏丹国间突厥公国拼凑而成。

These principalities are liable to danger when they are passing from the civil to the absolute order of government, for such princes either rule personally or through magistrates.

这种市民君主国从平民政制转向专制政治时候，往往处于危险状态。因为这类君主由自己亲自指挥通过官吏进行指挥。

Meanwhile, cabinet members became more specialized, consumed with the task of managing massive, far-flung principalities rather than bending the president's ear.

与此同时，内阁成员变得更加专业化，他们忙于管理庞大、遥远公国，而听从总统耳朵。

She seemed to stand upon a pinnacle of the temple, and spiritual kingdoms of darkness, principalities of the unknown, were spread before her eyes to lure her to destruction.

她仿佛站在神殿顶峰， 黑暗灵性国度， 未知君主， 在她眼前铺开， 引诱她走向毁灭。

The Battle of Antioch ensured the existence  of the Crusader states – the Principality of Antioch being one of four feudal Crusader states  that came to exist during the First Crusade.

安条克战役确保了十字军国家存在——安条克公国第一次十字军东征期间出现四个封建十字军国家一。

The feudal system in France meant  that, although France was a Kingdom, it consisted of many independently governed  local regions. These principalities had developed following Viking invasions, and each  was struggling to gain more power and territories.

法国封建制度意味着， 尽管法国一个王国，但它由独立管理地方组成。这些公国在维京人入侵后发展起来， 每个公国都在努力争取更权力和领土。