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    Posted: 01-May-2005 at 23:14
Originally posted by Kazec

Which Tai-zu??

Many Tai-zus throughout history, you know

If you mean Ming Tai-zu, truely I never heard people say Hong-wu Da-di so I don't raise it.

The same as Qin Shi-huang-di



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Yeap yeap, I always thought Taizu was almost the equivlent of "great king"  Not exactly Da Wang, but close enough...

Wanna verify that?
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  Quote Kazec Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-May-2005 at 23:43

My understanding is that Tai-zu is merely a temple name which means an ancestor... and inaugurating ancestor.

although 'tai' also mean mighty, but I think in taizu it means the earliest forefather

 

 

also I wanna ask

isn't da-wang or equivalent in korean language is a general title for the kings rather than describing mightiness?

of course da-wang means mighty king but all king would properly be regarded mighty, so it means nothing to its mightiness but rather a general title. you know what i mean?

eg Jungjung also revered as Jungjung da-wang? (the drama Dae Chang-kum is very heat these days)

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  Quote Gubook Janggoon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-May-2005 at 23:49
Dawang, or Daewang in Korean, is usually reserved for kings who were really great. 

This list of kings include Sejong Daewang.

Gwanggaeto was a Taewang. 
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  Quote Kazec Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-May-2005 at 00:03

daewang the same as taewang?

or difference between and 太?

any other daewang in Korean history?

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  Quote Gubook Janggoon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-May-2005 at 01:30
No the Hanzi for Tae in Taewang, is the same Hanzi for Tai in Taizu.

Other Daewang's?  I'm not sure.    I'll look into that for you.
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  Quote Exarchus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-May-2005 at 04:12
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Louis XIV the Great


He is more refered as "The Sun King" than the great.

Sometimers Henry IV is refered as "the Great".
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  Quote Sarmata Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-May-2005 at 04:38
I consider Boleslaw Chrobry definately as a "great". Officially only Kazimierz III is recognized as great but if it was up to me Boleslaw Chrobry would be a Great as well as Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk. And one more that I think s the most recent great...John Paul the Great
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  Quote Perseas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-May-2005 at 17:35
I am suprised noone mentioned the Egyptian pharaoh Tuthmoses III. One of the best Egyptian military ruler.

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  Quote Ahmed The Fighter Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-May-2005 at 08:37
  1. sargon
  2. naram-sin
  3. tuhutmus III
  4. cyrus
  5. alexander
  6. sluceuc III
  7. Mithedrates III
  8. Khusro-anosherwan
  9. constantine
  10. nabukhadnezzer II
  11. mohammed the prophet of god
  12. his cousin ali
  13. alp-arslan
  14. shrel-martel
  15. charelman
  16. haroon alrasheed
  17. peter
  18. sulieman
  19. fredrick of prussia
  20. elezabieth I of england
  21. philipe II of spain

 

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria

Simeon the Great, who ruled during the Golden Age of Bulgaria.

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  Quote Frederick Roger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-May-2005 at 18:30
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21.  philipe II of spain

 

 

To us, he'll always be Philip II, the Wise Guy.

Either way, I believe it was Philip IV, not II, who had the epithet "great".

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-May-2005 at 21:05

 I am the Great

I couldn't help it.  This whole great thing is so overrated

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2005 at 01:16
For Cyrus' list of all the greats. Reza Shah Pahlavi is not truly considered the great. But this may vary in opinion. In certain books, mostly those written during the Jomhuri Islami-e-Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi wasn't considered a great king.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-May-2005 at 23:34

Kimon the Great?

 

*Found the bones of Theseus for nothing eh?*

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  Quote Behi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-May-2005 at 10:17


My Favourites are all Iran's pre-Islamic kings.

The greatest of them are:
1.Cyrus I (Kourosh I)
2.Cambyses I (Kambiz I)
3.arius I, The Great
4.Xerxes I
5.Ardeshir-e Papakan
6.ShapourI the great
7. khosro Anoshiravan
8.queen Poran dokht

Hail To Them

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  Quote Raider Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2005 at 10:24
Originally posted by Temujin

Originally posted by Mosquito

From all the polish rulers we had only one which we named "Great"

 

what about his sucessor Louis?

He was rather unpopular in Poland, because he favoured his hungarian subject, and ceded some disputed territory from Poland to Hungary. On the other hand he was a great ruler of Hungary. Under his rule Hungary was one of the major powers in Europe. He waged succesful wars, he was incredibly rich, he was a heroic knight-king, he founded the first university, and created the first fleet etc. There is a saying that under his rule three seas bordered the realm. (By the way this is not true: the shore of the Black Sea belonged to the vlach voivodates. Theys were the king's vassal, but never the part of his realm. And the shore of Baltic Sea that time do not belonged to Poland.)

His realm: http://home.iae.nl/users/nickl/nlterk-2.jpg

His statue:http://www.herendherald.hu/011/images/epiteszet_4.jpg

There is anorther "great " Hungarian king: B幨a III. But his epithet changed after the middle ages: he became B幨a the Greek. (Because one time he was the appointed heir of the byzantine throne.)



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Mstislav I Vladimirovich was the Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 to 1132. He was known as Mstislav the Great.
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