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Tsarina
Title of a female autocratic ruler of Bulgaria or Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled csarina or csaricsa, tzarina or tzaritza, or czarina or czaricza; Bulgarian: царица, romanized: tsaritsa; Serbian: царица / carica; Russian: царица, romanized: tsaritsa) is the title of a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Bulgaria, Serbia or Russia, or the title of a tsar's wife. The English spelling is derived from the German czarin or zarin, in the same way as the French tsarine / czarine, and the Spanish and Italian czarina / zarina.[1] (A tsar's daughter is a tsarevna.)
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"Tsarina" or "tsaritsa" was the title of the female supreme ruler in the following states: