Suzerainty - Wikipedia Suzerainty differs from sovereignty in that the dominant power does not exercise centralized governance over the vassals, allowing tributary states to be technically self-ruling but enjoy only limited independence
What is Suzerainty? - WorldAtlas Suzerainty means ‘an upper sovereign’ The difference between suzerainty and sovereignty is that the tributary state or person has all the benefits of independence and self-rule albeit limited to some extent One nation or state has an upper sovereignty (suzerain) over the other (tributary state)
suzerainty - Wiktionary, the free dictionary suzerainty (countable and uncountable, plural suzerainties) A relation between states in which a subservient nation has its own government, but is unable to take international action independent of the superior state