<P> Tsar (/ zɑːr / or / tsɑːr /) (Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь (usually written thus with a title) or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe . As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism . The term is derived from the Latin word Caesar, which was intended to mean "Emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term--a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch)--but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in between a royal and imperial rank . </P> <P> Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other secular supreme rulers . In Asia and Russia the imperial connotations of the term became blurred with time due to medieval translations of the Bible, and by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King . </P>

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