S: (n) Habsburg, Hapsburg (a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806)
S: (n) Hohenzollern (a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia)
S: (n) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)
S: (n) Stuart (the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714)
S: (n) York, House of York (the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose)
S: (n) Medici (aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century)
S: (n) dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
S: (n) Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty (a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily)
S: (n) Capetian dynasty (a Frankish dynasty founded by Hugh Capet that ruled from 987 to 1328)
S: (n) Flavian dynasty (a dynasty of Roman Emperors from 69 to 96 including Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian)
S: (n) Han, Han dynasty (imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization)
S: (n) Habsburg, Hapsburg (a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806)
S: (n) Hohenzollern (a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia)
S: (n) Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty (an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra)
S: (n) Qin, Qin dynasty, Ch'in, Ch'in dynasty (the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall)
S: (n) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)
S: (n) Seljuk (any one of the Turkish dynasties that ruled Asia Minor from the 11th to the 13th centuries; they successfully invaded Byzantium and defended the Holy Land against Crusaders)
S: (n) Shang, Shang dynasty (the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC)
S: (n) Stuart (the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714)