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Which emperors are there in Europe?
People familiar with European history may find that many European monarchs don't call themselves emperors, and most of them are just kings. This is closely related to the history of the Roman Empire. In fact, after Caesar established the Roman Empire, his position was almost an emperor, but he was called "the Great" instead of "the Empire".

In Octavian's time, the name emperor began to be used. The division of the Roman Empire until its demise left Europe with a rich political legacy, including "the orthodoxy of the Roman Empire". Charles, the king of the early Frankish kingdom, was crowned Charlemagne by the Pope, and then the holy Roman emperor appeared. Generally speaking, there are great differences in status and authority between European emperors and ancient emperors in China.

For a long time, there were only two emperors in Europe: the Roman emperor and the Russian emperor. The latter title was later, and was awarded to Peter I by the Russian Senate in 172 1 in order to match his stronger monarchy and bigger country.

1804, Napoleon was crowned "Emperor of France" by himself. In the same year, Franz Ii of Austria announced the adoption of the title of "Austrian Emperor" (the official languages of Austria are Latin and German respectively), and gave up the title of "Holy Roman Emperor" in 1806.

/kloc-In the first half of the 0/9th century, there were only three emperors in Europe: France, Russia and Austria. 1850, the german parliament tried to give the title of Frederick William IV Kaiser, king of Prussia, but it was rejected. 187 1 After the Franco-Prussian War ended and Germany was unified, King William I accepted the title of "German Emperor".

In fact, Britain's Queen Victoria was once dubbed the "Queen", but this orthodoxy did not come from the European family, but from her colony of India. After conquering the Mughal dynasty in India, Britain also inherited the throne there, so in 1876, the British Parliament issued a royal knighthood decree, which stipulated that Queen Victoria was awarded the title of "Hindi Kaisar-i-Hind".