Mecca and Medina also acknowledged the suzerainty of the Fatimids.

In 1170 they acknowledged the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire, leading to Germanisation and assimilation over the following centuries.

Later on they acknowledged the suzerainty of the later Chalukya for some time.

Therefore, Gévaudan was the first Occitan-speaking area to acknowledge the nominal suzerainty of the king of France.

Tetzlav and his co-regent brother, Jaromar, had to acknowledge the suzerainty of their conquerors each time.

(In this respect, it was significant that the nominally-independent Republic acknowledged the suzerainty of China.)

Their mission was successful as far as Samarcand, the various places visited acknowledging the suzerainty of China.

However, in 1291 Shishman too was forced to acknowledge the suzerainty of Nogai in order to counter the increasing Serbian pressure from the west.

The city acknowledged the suzerainty of the Republic of Venice in 1420.

They nominally acknowledged the suzerainty of the Abbasid caliphs.