- Rí, or
commonly ríg (genitive), is an
ancient Gaelic word
meaning 'king'. It is used in
historical texts referring to the
Irish and
Scottish kings, and...
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Irish royal families were the
dynasties that once
ruled large "
overkingdoms" and
smaller petty kingdoms on the
island of Ireland.
Members of some of these...
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named after the
overkingdom of Ulaid, in the east of the province,
which was in turn
named after the
Ulaid folk. The
other overkingdoms in
Ulster were...
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kingdoms or túatha,
Gaelic Ireland was also
divided into five
prime overkingdoms (Old
Irish cóiceda,
Modern Irish cúige).
These were
Ulaid (in the north)...
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Regional overkingdoms and
major kingdoms in Ireland,
circa 1014 AD...
- the Franks.
Conall mac
Comgaill becomes king of Dál Riata, a
Gaelic overkingdom on the
western coast of Scotland. Istämi,
ruler of the
Western Turkic...
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Georgie Laurie named the area for Dál Riata, a 6th-7th
century Gaelic overkingdom; a
subsequent misspelling in an adverti****t led to the
current spelling...
- kin-group.
Several túatha
formed a mór túath (
overkingdom),
which was
ruled by an overking.
Several overkingdoms formed a cóiced (province),
which was ruled...
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during Dál Cuinn's era), two or
three of whom are listed, but
whose overkingdom in the
south of
Ireland collapsed in the 6th century. They were outmanoeuvred...
- (Breffny), In
Tuaiscert (The North), and Airgíalla (Oriel). Each of
these overkingdoms were
built upon
lordships known as túatha (singular: túath). Law tracts...
