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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INTERREGNUM (
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Lat. inter, between, and regnum, reign)
  , strictly a period during which the normal constituted authority is in abeyance, and government is carried on by a temporary authority specially appointed . Though originally and specific-ally confined to the sphere of
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sovereign authority, the
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term is commonly used by analogy in other connexions for any suspension of authority, during which affairs are carried on by specially appointed persons . The term originated in Rome during the
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regal period when an interrex was appointed (traditionally by the senate) to carry on the government between the
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death of one king and the election of his successor (see ROME:
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History, ad init.) . It was subsequently used in Republican times of an officer appointed to hold the
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comitia for the election of the consuls when for some reason the retiring consuls had not done so . In the regal period when the senate, instead of appointing a king, decided to appoint interreges, it divided itself into ten decuries from each of which one senator was selected . Each of these tbu acted as king for five days, and if, at the end of fifty days, no king had been elected, the rotation was renewed . It was their duty to nominate a king, whose appointment was then ratified or refused by the curiae . Under the Republic similarly interreges acted for five days each . When the first consuls were elected (according to Dionysius iv . 84 and Livy i . 6o), Spurius Lucretius held the comitia as interrex, and from that time down to the Second Punic War such
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officers were from time to time appointed . Thenceforward there is no record of the office till 82 B.C., when the senate appointed an interrex to hold the comitia which made If the values of u occurring in (21) or (22) are u°, up, uy, .

. . corresponding to values a, b, c, . . . 1 of x, the

formula may be more symmetrically written u = (x—b) (x—c) . ..(x—l)u +(x—a) (x—c)...(x—l)up + . . (a—b) (a—c) .. .(a—l) ° (b—a) (b—c)...(b—l) (x—a) (x—b) (x—c) ... Sulla dictator (Appian, Bell. civ . 98) . In 55, 53 and 52 interreges are again found, the last-mentioned being on the occasion when
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Pompey was elected
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sole consul . The most noteworthy use of the term " Interregnum " in
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post-classical times is that of the
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Great Interregnum in German history between the death of Conrad IV . (1254) and the election of Rudolf of Habsburg (1273) .

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GERMANY: History .

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