despot

  1. Noun.  A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  2. Noun.  A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).

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