There are currently four reigning kings in Europe;- King Harald V of Norway King Carl Gustav of Sweden King Albert of Belgium King Juan Carlos of Spain There are two reigning princes (Liechtenstein and Monaco) There is one reigning Grand Duke (Luxembourg) There are three reigning Queens (UK, Netherlands and Denmark)
12 countries in Europe have monarchies (they are constitutional monarchies, not absolute monarchies)
If you mean: how many are ruled by princes (in Europe), the answer is two: Monaco and Liechtenstein. If you mean: how many know that title as part of its recognized nobility, the answer is: all kingdoms in Europe (7) plus a number of countries where this is still a recognized rank, mostly former kingdoms such as France and Italy.
Europe became a patchwork of little areas of mini-kingdoms.
kingdoms
North West Europe
The greatest threat to the kingdoms was from defeat in war. Most of the early kingdoms did not survive, as those that did survive destroyed the others.
The peoples that formed new kingdoms in eastern and central Europe were the Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Moravians, Croats, Serbs, and the Bulgarians.
how did centralized monarchies develop in Europe
After the fall of Rome what two things caused Western Europe to divide into multiple kingdoms
Western European kingdoms increasingly fought wars over religious differences.
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When the western Roman empire collapsed in 476 AD, the unifying force for most of Europe was gone. Along with the loss of the government, much of the engineering abilities and modern amenities were also lost. The Barbarians of Europe did not, for the most part, have the abilities or knowledge to build roads, aqueducts or the other marvels of the Roman Empire, which is why the period immediately after Rome's collapse is often referred to as the "Dark Ages".
Roman Empire fell, and divided among weak kingdoms.