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Kaiser is the German title meaning Emperor . WORD HISTORY AND TRANSLATIONS Kaiser is derived from the title of Tsar . It is a sovereign Monarch ic title of the highest rank, explicitly at par with Padishah . In German, the word is also used in a generic sense equivalent to the English ''emperor.'' For instance, German-speaking historians would refer to an emperor of China as a ''Chinesischer Kaiser.'' Cognate, nearly homophone titles, are used in the same ways in Germanic languages or those (mainly Baltic and Slavonic) who derived the term from German, for example:
In contrast, most Romance and tributary vocabularies, including English, derive their terms for emperor from the Latin '' Imperator .'' GERMAN HISTORY AND ANTECEDENTS OF THE TITLE The Roman imperial style was first revived in the Frankish realm, the hegemon of the Catholic West, thus claiming equality with the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Caliphate, by Charlemagne in 800, and when his empire was divided again through inheritances it came to be linked to the eastern ('German') kingdom. The Holy Roman Emperors ( 962 - 1806 ) (the "First German Reich ", becoming an Elective Monarchy ) called themselves ''Kaiser'', while combining this imperial title with that of Roman King (assumed by the designated heir before the imperial coronation); they saw their rule as a continuation of that of the Roman Emperor s and so used the name "Caesar" to reflect their supposed heritage. The rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( 1806 - 1918 ), from the Habsburg dynasty that had provided all Holy Roman Emperors (though formally still elected) since 1440 , again used the title ''Kaiser''. In English and most other foreign usage, however, the untranslated title is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire ( 1871 - 1918 ) (the "Second Reich") which chancellor Bismarck had welded skilfully from two federations covering most of the many principalities (mainly petty, known as ''Kleinstaaterei'') that had constituted Germany, the core of the former Holy Roman Empire . The term is particularly associated in English with the last Kaiser, Wilhelm II. There were three Kaisers of the German Empire. All belonged to the Hohenzollern dynasty, which had already ruled much of Germany ruled as kings of (originally 'in') Prussia , militarily the only great power among the German principalities, before ascending the brand new "German" imperial throne. These three Prussian Kaisers were:
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