A Compendium of World Sovereigns

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference.

Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include A Chronology of the Crusades (2015), A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017), A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1066-1307 (2020), and A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1307-1485 (2020).

Egypt - Pharoahs P. 1. Old Kingdom; Middl Kingdom; New Kingdom. Hittites P. 43. Akkad Babylonia p. 47. Lydia. P. 69. Assyria Later Babylon: C6th BC. Greece - Dual Kingship of Sparta Early Athens Early Thebes Early Argos Early Mycenae Early Pylos and Ithaca Early Iolcos and Thessaly Legendary Troy Greek 'Tyrannies': Sicyon, Athens, Samos and Ionia Sicily: : Rulers of Gela, Syracuse. Kings (and queens) of Macedon and rulers of its empire: Temenids, House of Antipater, and Antigonids Epirus Seleucid Kingdom Ptolemaic Kingdom Pergamum ; Pontus ; Cappadocia ; Bithynia ; Galatia ; Commagene . Thrace Classical and Early Mediaeval Armenia Bosporan Kingdom (Crimea) Abgarid Dynasty of Edessa (NE Syria) Nabatea (Jordan) Southern Arabia: Saba and Himyar. Israel and Judah to 586 BC Maccabean Dynasty of Israel Dynasty of Herod Achaemenid Persia Parthian Kingdom (to AD 224/6) (Indo-Parthian sub-kingdom.) Sassanian Persia (to AD 637/651) Hellenistic Greek Bactria and India Indian Sovereigns: Mauryas and Guptas Sri Lanka: Anuradhapura. China: Early Dynasties to c. 220 BC: legendary emperors; Shang; Zhou, Chu, xi/Ch'i; early Qin; Yen/Yan; Lu; Song; Yu/ Yuyue. Emperors: Qin; Han. Period of division c. AD 220 to 580 The Three Kingdoms: Wei, Wu, Shu Han. Jin; early Song; Southern Qi; Southern Liang; Western Laing; Southern Zhen; Early Yen; Early and Later Qin; Northern, Eastern and Western Wei; Northern Zhou; Northern Qi. Earlier and Later Liang; Western, Later and Southern Yen Sui. Korea: Silla and Goguryeo. Japan. THE ROMAN WORLD Legendary Kings of Rome Roman Emperors (and empresses) to AD 395 Western Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 476) Eastern Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 491) NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND POST-ROMAN WORLD. Britain: Pre-Roman tribal states Ireland: High Kings to the C6th AD Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse to AD 507 Vandal Kingdom of Africa Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy Popes to the early 7th AD