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，实际上是世界上最小。

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，他们击败了罗斯公联合军队。

He was deprived of the priority to get the principality.

他被剥夺了取得公君主职位优先权。

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。

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

那是许多不同公和城邦以及其他一切。

Our principality is less than one square mile.

我们土不足一平方英里。

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

你这么做 全都是为了摩纳哥公里公民好了？

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

君主不是世袭就是新。在世袭君主里，长期以来君主后裔就是那里君主。

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

列支敦士登公很久以来都是欧洲避税者理想之地，瑞士银行向全球客户兜售该基金又进一步促使了该经济发展。

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

这伙甚至听起来很有异情调。他从意大利来到摩纳哥，这个公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， 基督教公于 1878 年与奥斯曼帝作战。

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拜占庭帝和削弱朗姆塞尔柱苏丹之间突厥公拼凑而成。

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.

这种市民君主从平民政制转向专制政治时候，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。

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.

法封建制度意味着， 尽管法是一个王，但它由许多独立管理地方组成。这些公是在维京人入侵后发展起来， 每个公都在努力争取更多权力和领土。

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，在一个全新君主里——那儿是新君主时候，为了保有这种而遇到困难有大有小，这是按照获得这种人能力之大小而异。