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A
realm is the dominion of a monarch, king or queen, emperor or empress, or another personal sovereign ruler of some sort. The Old French
reaume (modern French
royaume) was the form of the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling doesn't appear until the beginning of the 17th century. The word supposedly derives from medieval
Latin regalimen, from
regalis, of or belonging to a
rex, (king). Realm directly translates into
reich in German, though the word
reich is often used as a short form for 'kingdom' (
Königreich) and especially 'empire' (
Kaiserreich). The German -reich is only used for realms headed by a crowned monarch. Territories ruled by non-crowned rulers ends of the suffix -tum (engl.: -dom), p. e.: Herzogtum (dukedom), Fürstentum (principality)
"Realm" is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word
kingdom (for example, the
United Kingdom), to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom...").
"Realm" is also frequently used to refer to territories that are "under" a monarch, yet are not a physical part of his or her "kingdom" (for example, the various
Commonwealth Realms under the British Crown, in
Realm of Sweden, or to
Holstein, which until the
Second War of Schleswig was an important part of the Danish King's realm stretching to the border of
Hamburg, although not a part of the Danish Kingdom). This Similarly, the
Cook Islands,
Niue, and
Tokelau are considered parts of the
Realm of New Zealand, although they're not part of New Zealand proper. Likewise, the
Faroe Islands and
Greenland remain parts of the
Danish Realm.
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