No further source of supply was left but the small independent principalities of Germany.
In the intervening time, the realm had broken up into smaller principalities and domains, with little peace between them.
At the turn of the 7th century the Albanian marzpandom breaks into several small principalities.
In the first half of the sixth century, these several small principalities fought one another.
They had come from a small European principality which no longer existed.
After the battle, most of Serbia broke into smaller principalities.
There are something like 10,000 movie directors in the world, and each is the leader of a small principality, with its own climate, culture, rules.
He wrote an influential work on the administration of small principalities.
The science he envisioned was both theoretical and practical, covering all the needs of a small principality.
His recent visit to one of the smaller German principalities was the perfect example.