Foreign domination
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Foreign domination is a term used in the historiography of multiple countries to characterize successive periods of rule by foreign powers.
China
China was under foreign rule in the years of the Yuan dynasty and of the Qing dynasty. Both dynasties however became gradually Chinese as time passed.
Italy
Foreign domination is commonly used to describe the condition of foreign rule over Italian states at the beginning of the
Spain
Two foreign dynasties came to power in Spain, the House of Habsburg in 1516 and the House of Bourbon in 1700. However, both the Spanish Habsburgs by the time of Philip II of Spain and the Spanish Bourbons by the time of Louis I of Spain were Spanish-born monarchs.
Other examples
The term has also notably been used to refer to periods of Israeli, Eastern European, and Polish history.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ "HISTORY: Foreign Domination". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- PMID 11965649.
- ^ Sukiennicki, Wiktor (1984). East Central Europe During World War I: From Foreign Domination To National Independence. East European Monographs/Columbia University Press.
- Arnaldi, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History Girolamo; Arnaldi, Girolamo (2005). Italy and Its Invaders. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674018709.