id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2986 Great king - Wikipedia .html text/html 1480 223 62 In comparison, "high king" was used by ancient rulers in Great Britain and Ireland, as well as Greece. Great kings referred to each other as brothers and often established close relationships by means of marriages and frequent gift exchanges.[1] Letters exchanged between these rulers, several of which has been recovered especially in Amarna and Hittite archives, provide details of this diplomacy.[2] The case of maharaja ("great raja", great king and prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is an example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by "title inflation" as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style. Antiochus III the Great, Hellenistic Greek king and the sixth ruler of the Seleucid Empire, bore the title Basileus Megas Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East. Imperial and Royal Majesty (HI&RM) Imperial and Royal Highness (HI&RH) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2986.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2986.txt