In HistoryMarche's videos on Michael the Brave, they say the principality of Moldavia was a vassal of Poland, under suzerainty of Transylvania and paying tribute to the Ottoman empire, all at the same time. They call this joint dominion "condominium". Were condominiums common? Other examples?

by odysseusnostos

I was watching this video of HistoryMarche:
Battle of Selimbar, The Unification, Story of Micheal the Brave (Part 3/5)
https://youtu.be/MzSFTytjvTc?t=140

I had never heard of joint dominion, or "condominium", over a principality or a territory. I am curious to know how, in practice, these territories were administered, and how they could owe loyalty to different overlords at the same time. Wouldn't it cause confusion, or at least tensions, between these different overlords?

Are there other interesting examples of condominiums in history? Did they exist outside of Europe's feudal system?

Any insight into these "condominiums" would be appreciated. A Google search on the subject only gives me apartment buildings.

Thank you!

khowaga

In the modern era, late 19th/early 20th century Sudan was an Anglo-Egyptian condominium. It had originally been conquered by Egypt (when it was autonomous but still part of the Ottoman Empire) in the early 19th century. The Sudanese revolted in the 1880s, after the British occupation of Egypt in 1882. Control wasn’t fully reestablished until 1899, but Sudan was “jointly administered” by both Egypt and Britain between then and its independence in 1956. The arrangement outlasted both Egypt’s nominal independence in 1923, and the revolution of 1952 which overthrew the Egyptian monarchy.