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The title grand prince or great prince (Latin: Magnus Princeps)
ranked in honour below emperor and tsar and above a sovereign
prince (or Fürst).  Grand duke is the usual and established,
though not literal, translation of these terms in English and
Romance languages, which do not normally use separate words for
a "prince" who reigns as a monarch (e.g. Albert II, Prince of
Monaco) and a "prince" who does not reign, but belongs to a
monarch's family (e.g. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge).
German, Dutch, Slavic and Scandinavian languages do use separate
words to express this concept, and in those languages grand
prince is understood as a distinct title (for a cadet of a
dynasty) from grand duke (hereditary ruler ranking below a
king).  The title of grand prince was once used for the
sovereign of a "grand principality". The last titular grand
principalities vanished in 1917 and 1918, the territori