| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| HRE | Charlemagne ruled it: Abbr. |
| HOLYROMANEMPIRE | By many accounts, it began with Charlemagne |
| LORDED | .. it over: ruled |
| ZAIRE | Mobutu ruled it |
| KINGED | Ruled (with "it"). |
| USSR | Stalin ruled it |
| PERSIA | Xerxes ruled it |
| ROOST | It may be ruled |
| HAITI | Papa Doc ruled it |
| PORTUGAL | It once ruled Mozambique |
| PRUSSIA | Wilhelm I ruled it |
| LIBYA | Gadhafi ruled it, once |
| QATAR | The Ottoman Turks ruled it from 1872-1915 |
| RUTH | It begins "In the days when the judges ruled ..." |
| GUAM | Spain ruled it before it became a US territory |
| RUTH | It begins "In the days when the judges ruled..." |
