Officially known as the principality of Sealand, Sealand is technically the smallest nation in the world.

官方名称叫做西兰公国，实际上是世界上最小的国家。

In 1221, the Mongols moved into northern Afghanistan, and in 1222, they defeated a combined army of Rus principalities.

1221 年，蒙古人进入阿富汗北部，1222 年，他们击败了罗斯公国的联合军队。

He was deprived of the priority to get the principality.

他被剥夺了取得公国君主职位的优先权。

All this loot helped Moscow expand their influence and buy principalities.

所有这些战利品都帮助莫斯科扩大了影响力并购买了公国。

It was tons of different principalities and city-states and everything else.

那是许多不同的公国和城邦以及其他一切。

Our principality is less than one square mile.

我们的国土不足一平方英里。

So this is all for the benefit of the good people of the principality of Monaco?

你这么做 全都是为了纳哥公国里的公民好了？

Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.

君主国不是世袭的就是新的。在世袭君主国里，长期以君主的后裔就是那里的君主。

The principality has long been popular with European tax dodgers, but growth accelerated when Swiss banks hawked Liechtenstein foundations to clients worldwide.

列支敦士登公国很久以都是欧洲避税者理想之地，瑞士银行向全球客户兜售该国基金又进一步促使了该国的经济发展。

The guy even sounded exotic. He came from Italy, but had moved to Monaco, the principality famous for not levying income tax.

这家伙甚至听起很有异国情调。他从意大利纳哥，这个公国以不征收所得税而闻名。

I'm so disappointed that I can't spend all day with you before you rush off to your principality.

很抱歉我不能在你们去教会之前一直都陪着你们。

It was also seen in the Balkans, where Greece gained its independence in 1832 and Christian principalities fought a war against the Ottomans in 1878.

它也出现在巴尔干半岛，希腊于 1832 年获得独立， 基督教公国于 1878 年与奥斯曼帝国作战。

In Osman's time, the Anatolian peninsula was a patchwork of Turkic principalities sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Rum.

在奥斯曼时代，安纳托利亚半岛是夹在摇摇欲坠的拜占庭帝国和削弱的朗姆塞尔柱苏丹国之间的突厥公国的拼凑而成。

These principalities are liable to danger when they are passing from the civil to the absolute order of government, for such princes either rule personally or through magistrates.

这种市民的君主国从平民政制转向专制政治的时候，往往处于危险状态。因为这类君主不是由自己亲自指挥就是通过官吏进行指挥的。

The feudal system in France meant  that, although France was a Kingdom, it consisted of many independently governed  local regions. These principalities had developed following Viking invasions, and each  was struggling to gain more power and territories.

法国的封建制度意味着， 尽管法国是一个王国，但它由许多独立管理的地方组成。这些公国是在维京人入侵后发展起的， 每个公国都在努力争取更多的权力和领土。

I say, therefore, that in entirely new principalities, where there is a new prince, more or less difficulty is found in keeping them, accordingly as there is more or less ability in him who has acquired the state.

因此我断言，在一个全新的君主国里——那儿是新君主的时候，为了保有这种国家而遇的困难有大有小，这是按照获得这种国家的人的能力之大小而异的。