He was also resistant to imperial authority, effectively ruling Lulong as an independent realm.

However subtle we are forced to make our idea of science, nature remains an independent realm awaiting discovery.

By the mid-13th century Emirate of Granada was the only independent Muslim realm in Spain, which would last until 1492.

The concept spread via British colonisation, and is now rooted in the legal lexicon of the other 15 independent realms.

He scorns "the pious hope that science and religion are independent realms which can easily be separated."

Doclea remained the only independent Serbian realm prior to 1083, when it will be united with Rascia.

Executive authority is also vested in the monarch, though it can be placed with the Governor General on behalf of the sovereign of the independent realm.

This, however, led to suspicions that he was intending to rule Zhenhai as an effective independent realm.

After the fall of Arnor, the Shire remained a minor but independent, self-governing realm.

Mr. Appleyard calls this thinking "pious hope that science and religion are independent realms which can easily be separated."