List of rulers of Bhutan
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'''[[Bhutan]]''' was founded and unified as a country by [[Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal]] in the mid-1600s. After his death the country nominally followed his recommended "dual system of government" which split control between an administrative leader (the [[Druk Desi]]), and a religious leader, the ([[Je Khenpo]]). In practice, regional ''[[penlop]]s'', or governors, often administered their districts in defiance of the power of the Desi Druks, until the rise of the unified monarchy at the beginning of the 20th cent ury.
==Druk desis (administrative leaders, 1680-1905)==
*[[Tenzin Rabgye]] (1638-1696) 1680-1694)
*[[Gedun Chomphel]] (-1701) 1695-1701
*[[Ngawang Tshering]] 1701-1704
*[[Umdze Peljor]] 1704-1707
*[[Druk Rabgye]] (-1729) 1707-1719
*[[Ngawang Gyamtsho]] (-1729) 1719-1729
*[[Mipham Wangpo]] 1729-1736
*[[Khuwo Peljor]] 1736-1739
*[[Ngawang Gyaltshen]] 1739-1744
*[[Sherab Wangchuck]] 1744-1763
*[[Druk Phuntsho]] 1763-1765
*[[Druk Tendzin I]] 1765-1768
*[[Donam Lhundub]] (-1773) 1768-1773
*[[Kunga Rinchen]] 1773-1776
*[[Jigme Singye]] (1742-1789) 1776-1788
*[[Druk Tendzin II]] 1788-1792
*[[Tashi Namgyal of Bhutan|Tashi Namgyal]] 1792-1799
*[[Druk Namgyal]] 1799-1803
*[[Tashi Namgyal of Bhutan|Tashi Namgyal]] (2. Mal) 1803-1805
*[[Sangye Tendzin]] 1805-1806
*[[Umdze Parpop]] 1806-1808
*[[Bop Choda]] 1807-1808
*[[Tsulthrim Drayga]] (1790-1820) 1809-1810
*[[Jigme Dragpa II]] 1810-1811
*[[Yeshey Gyaltshen]] (1781-1830) 1811-1815
*[[Tshaphu Dorji]] 1815
*[[Sonam Drugyal]] 1815-1819
*[[Tendzin Drugdra]] 1819-1823
*[[Choki Gyaltshen]] 1823-1831
*[[Dorji Namgyal]] 1831-1832
*[[Adap Thrinley]] 1832-1835
*[[Choki Gyaltshen]] (2. Mal) 1835-1838
*[[Dorji Norbu]] 1838-1847
*[[Tashi Dorji]] 1847-1850
*[[Wangchuk Gyalpo]] 1850
*[[Jigme Norbu]] (in Thimphu) 1850-1852
*[[Chagpa Sangye]] (in Punakha) 1851-1852
*[[Damcho Lhundrup]] 1852-1856
*[[Kunga Palden]] (in [[Punakha]]) 1856-1861
*[[Sherab Tharchin]] (in Thimphu) 1856-1861
*[[Phuntsho Namgyal]] 1861-1864
*[[Tshewang Sithub]] 1864
*[[Tsulthrim Yonten]] 1864
*[[Kagyu Wangchuk]] 1864
*[[Tshewang Sithub]] (2. Mal) 1864-1866
*[[Tsondru Pekar]] 1866-1870
*[[Jigme Namgyal]] (1825-1881) 1870-1873
*[[Kitsep Dorji Namgyal]] 1873-1877
*[[Jigme Namgyal]] (2. Mal) 1877-1878
*[[Kitsep Dorji Namgyal]] (2. Mal) 1878-1879
*[[Chogyal Zangpo]] (-1880) 03.1879-06.1880
*[[Jigme Namgyal]] (3. Mal) 1880-07.1881
*[[Lam Tshewang]] (1836-1883) 1881-05.1883
*[[Gawa Zangpo]] 16.05.1883-23.08.1885
*[[Sangye Dorji]] (-1901) 1885-1901
*[[Choley Yeshe Ngodub]] (1851-1917) 1903-1905
== Kings of Bhutan (1907-Present) ==
The monarchy was established in [[1907]], unifying the country under the control of the [[House of Wangchuk|Wangchuk family]], the traditional ''[[penlop]]s'' of [[Trongsa]] district. The king of Bhutan is formally known as the "[[Druk Gyalpo]]", the "Dragon King".
*[[Ugyen Wangchuck]] (1861-1926) "First King" ([[17 December]] [[1907]] - [[21 August]] [[1926]])
*[[Jigme Wangchuck]] (1902/1906-1952) "Second King" ([[21 August]][[1926]] - [[24 March]] [[1952]])
*[[Jigme Dorji Wangchuck]] (1929-1972) "Third King" ([[24 March]][[1952]] - [[24 July]] [[1972]])
*[[Jigme Singye Wangchuck]] (1955) "Fourth King" ([[24 July]] [[1972]] - [[14 December]] [[2006]])
*[[Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck]] (1980) "Fifth King" ([[14 December]] [[2006]] - Present)
Bhutan observed 100 years of the Wangchuk dynasty in [[2007]].
==External links==
*[http://bhutan2008.blogspot.com/2007/04/kings-of-bhutan.html Kings of Bhutan - Bhutan Monarchy]
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