The Emperors (also billed as The Emperor's) were an American soul band from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, formed in the early 1960s. The group had its first...

rulers of the entire Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire continued until 476. Byzantine emperors considered themselves to be Roman emperors in direct...

1204–1261). The ecumenical councils of the 5th to 8th centuries were convoked by the Eastern Roman Emperors. In Western Europe, the title of Emperor in the West...

senior emperor, are treated as legitimate emperors. Many emperors ruled alongside one or various joint-emperors. However, and specially from the 4th century...

the Senate, or both. The first emperors reigned alone; later emperors would sometimes rule with co-emperors to secure the succession or to divide the...

the pope was Charles V; all emperors after him were technically emperors-elect, but were universally referred to as emperor. The Holy Roman emperor was...

from father to son until the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875), the 11th Qing ruler, died childless in 1875. The last two emperors were chosen by Empress Dowager...

posthumously. Legend: Orange denotes Ming emperors Cyan denotes Southern Ming emperors List of vassal prince peerages of the Ming dynasty Dynasties of China List...

kinship. Because of this, all but the first and last of the Nerva–Antonine emperors are called Adoptive Emperors. The importance of official adoption in...

created in the 7th century BC, but the first historically verifiable emperors appear around the 5th or 6th centuries AD. The role of the emperor of Japan...