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A '''regent''' is a person who acts in place of a [[monarch]] while the monarch is too young to reign in his or her owen right, or is incapacitated by illness, injury or captivity. It ahs also been the case that regents have served during an interregnum - that is, while a nation is formally a [[monarchy]] but no monarch has been appointed. This was the case in [[Hungary]] between 1919 and 1945, when the regent was [[Admiral Horthy]]; Finland was also officially ruled by a regent between 1917 and 1918, when it was established as a republic.