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When I read on Chinese, Korean and Japanese history pre-European contact, I find people styled with European titles like Duke, Count, Marquis, etc. What are the native words for this titles and to what extent can they be compared with their European counterparts?

by /u/masiakasaurus in /r/AskHistorians

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