atabegate

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Etymology

From atabeg +‎ -ate.

Noun

atabegate (plural atabegates)

  1. (historical) The realm administered by an atabeg.
    • 1970, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1A, Pt. II, §2: "Egypt and Syria", p. 200:
      Zangī's southward advance threatened both the atabegate of Damascus and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and was met by an informal alliance between the two.
    • 1998, Kamal S. Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan, page 23:
      The Transjordanian highlands north of Bilad al-Sharat—the Balqa and the Sawad—remained part of the Burid atabegate of Damascus.
  2. (historical) The office of atabeg, in his role as tutor to a crown prince or as warlord.
    • 1954, Ann K.S. Lambton, Theory and Practice in Medieval Persian Government, page 243:
      While the sultan thus hoped to retain the nominal allegiance of the great amīrs through the atabegate, they, on the other hand, saw in it a means to establish their virtual independence.
    • 1993, Leslie P. Peirce, The Imperial Harem, page 54:
      A closer parallel was the atabegate in the powerful medieval Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks, centered in Iran. The atabeg (Turkish for "father-governor") was the Seljuk possessor of the lala; in fact, the Ottomans sometimes used the two terms interchangeably.

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