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The word Czar (or Tsar) is a form of the name Caesar, the title the Roman and Byzantine emperors took for their titles. It all started when Ivan IV started using it because he married a niece of the last of the Byzantine emperors. In his mind that made him a "Caesar" or Czar (also spelled Tsar). The title did not become official until Ivan IV took it upon his coronation.

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Both words are derived from the Roman name Caesar, more specifically, Julius Caesar.

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