principality

The 22-year-old Netcompany Ineos rider decided himself to take part in the three-week Grand Tour and was rewarded with a strong performance on a tight and technical course around the principality of Monaco.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The trip by the pope -- who rules over the world's smallest country, Vatican City -- follows one made in March to another European statelet, the principality of Monaco.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The visit to the principality on the French riviera will take place on March 28 and will be the first papal trip to the city state in modern times.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Yes, you can enjoy the principality of Monaco, with its casinos, yachts and Grand Prix, without a princely budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

This can be called a civil principality, the acquisition of which neither depends completely upon virtue nor upon Fortune, but instead upon a fortunate astuteness.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

"Districts of the capital are not separate principalities where you can walk around in white gloves and neglect your duties," he said, adding that he would not tolerate "sabotage".

From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2023

Rather than adopting a common currency, legal system, or representative assembly, the Holy Roman Empire remained a patchwork of semiautonomous principalities.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

They begin: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come."

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022

What fascinates me about Little Indias is that they are like little principalities in some ways, like a motherland or a homeland.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2022

Like medieval Italian city-states, Nudzahui principalities were rigidly stratified, with the king and a small group of kinspeople and noble advisers gobbling up much of the wealth and land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann