Section II: Countries whose Monarchies have been Abolished

A. Former Monarchies with generally acknowledged claimants

Country	Monarchy Established	Monarchy Abolished	Pretender(s) to the Throne	Born	Reigned or Inherited Claim
Afghanistan	1919	1973	Prince Ahmed Shah Khan, son of King Zahir Shah	September 23, 1934	July 23, 2007
Albania	1928	1946	Crown Prince Leka, son of King Zog I	April 5, 1939	April 9, 1961
Austria	1804	1918	Archduke Otto, Crown Prince of Austria and Hungary, son of Emperor Karl I	November 20, 1912	April 1, 1922
Brazil	1822	1889	Dom Luiz Gastão, great-great-grandson of Emperor Pedro II Dom Pedro Carlos, great-great-grandson of Emperor Pedro II	June 6, 1938 October 31, 1945	July 5, 1981 December 27, 2007
Bulgaria	1879	1946	King (Tsar) Simeon II	June 16, 1937	August 28, 1943 - September 15, 1946; Prime Minister (as Simeon Saxe-Coburg) 2001-05
Burundi	c. 1530	1966	Princess Rosa Paula Iribagiza	March 20, 1934	May 1, 1977
Central Africa	1976	1979	Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa II	November 2, 1975	November 3, 1996
China	1523 B.C.	1912	Prince Hengzhen	1944	1977
Czech Republic (Bohemia)	1198	1918	(see Austria)
Egypt	1922	1953	King Ahmad Fuad II	January 16, 1952	July 26, 1952 - June 18, 1953
Ethiopia	c. 1000 B.C.	1975	Prince Zere Yacob	August 15, 1953	1975
France	843 1804 1852	1792 1848 1870	Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou Prince Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris Prince Jean-Christophe Bonaparte, Prince Napoléon	April 23, 1974 June 14, 1933 July 11, 1986	January 30, 1989 June 19, 1999 May 4, 1997
Georgia	1008	1801 (annexed by Russia)	Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky	August 25, 1950	1984
Germany	1871	1918	Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia Also see German Ruling Families	June 10, 1976	September 25, 1994
Greece	1832 1935	1924 1974	King Constantine II	June 6, 1940	March 6, 1964 - December 8, 1974
Hungary	1000	1918	(see Austria)
Iran	550 B.C.	1979	Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Mohammed Hassan Mirza II [Qajar]	October 31, 1960 July 18, 1949	July 27, 1980 May 5, 1988
Iraq	1932	1958	Prince Ra'ad Prince Sharif Ali bin AlHussein	February 18, 1936 1956	October 18, 1970
Italy	1861	1946	Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, son of King Umberto II Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Duke of Savoy, great-great-grandson of King Vittorio Emanuele II Also see Italian Ruling Families	February 12, 1937 September 27, 1943	March 18, 1983
Korea, North and Korea, South	918	1910 (annexed by Japan)	Yi Haewon Yi Won	1919 1962	July 16, 2005
Laos	1949	1975	Prince Soulivong Savang, grandson of King Savang Vathana	May 8, 1963	c. March 1980
Libya	1951	1969	Prince Muhammed al-Hasan ar-Rida al-Senussi, nephew of King Idris I	October 20, 1962	April 28, 1992
Maldives	1153	1968	Prince Muhammad Nur ud-din, son of Sultan al-Hasan Nur ud-din Iskander II		May 1969
Mexico	1822 1864	1823 1867	(Count) Don Maximiliano de Götzen-Iturbide, great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Augustín	March 2, 1944	August 8, 1999
Montenegro	1077	1918 (annexed by Serbia)	Prince Nikola	July 7, 1944	March 24, 1986
Nepal	1769	2008	King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev	July 7, 1947	November 7, 1950 - January 8, 1951; June 4, 2001 - May 28, 2008
Portugal	1139	1910	Prince Duarte, Duke of Braganza	May 15, 1945	December 24, 1976
Romania	1878	1947	King Michael I	October 25, 1921	July 20, 1927 - June 8, 1930; September 6, 1940 - December 30, 1947
Russia	862	1917	Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II	December 23, 1953	April 21, 1992
Rwanda	c. 1350	1961	King Kigeli V	1935	July 25, 1959 - January 28, 1961
Serbia	1878	1945	Crown Prince Alexander II, son of King Peter II of Yugoslavia	July 17, 1945	November 3, 1970
Tunisia	1705	1957	Prince Muhammed Bey	1928	1996
Turkey	1299	1923	Prince Bayezid Osman	July 23, 1924	September 23, 2009
Vietnam	939	1945	Prince Bao Thang, second son of Emperor Bao Dai	September 30, 1943	July 28, 2007
Yemen	1918	1962	Prince Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr	1973	August 6, 1996

B. Former Associate Monarchies (were associated with the British crown unless otherwise indicated)

Country	Date of Independence	Date of Break with Crown	Local Monarchies
Fiji	1970	1987	Queen Elizabeth II remains "Paramount Chief."
Gambia	1965	1970
Ghana	1957	1960	King of the Ashanti: Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II (born May 6, 1950; acceded April 26, 1999)
Iceland	1918	1941 (Denmark)
India	1947	1950	Sikkim: British Protectorate 1816, Indian Protectorate 1950, annexed by India 1975. Claimant: Chogyal Wangchuk Namgyal, 13th Maharaja (born April 1, 1953, inherited claim January 29, 1982). Also see Wikipedia: Pretender: India
Ireland	1922	1948
Malawi	1964	1966
Malta	1964	1974
Mauritius	1968	1992
Myanmar (Burma)	1937	1948
Nigeria	1960	1963	Emir of Kano: Ado Bayero (born July 25, 1930; acceded 1963)
Pakistan	1947	1956
Sierra Leone	1961	1971
South Africa	1910	1961	King of the Zulus: Goodwill Zwelithini (born July 14, 1948; crowned December 3, 1971)
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)	1948	1972
Trinidad and Tobago	1962	1976
Uganda	1962	1963	Traditional kingdoms abolished 1966; restored 1993 for ceremonial purposes. Kingdom Sovereign Born Acceded Ankole King Ntare VI January 10, 1940 November 20, 1993 (coronation subsequently "nullified" by Ugandan government) Buganda King Muwenda Mutebi II April 13, 1955 1993 Bunyoro King Iguru 1993 Busoga (Vacant since death of King Henry Wako Muloki) (September 1, 2008) Toro King Rukidi IV April 16, 1992 September 12, 1995

Section III: Countries Republican since Independence or Lacking Claimants