khanate
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English
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Etymology
From khan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Pronunciation
Noun
khanate (plural khanates)
- A region or place ruled by a khan.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, pages 5–6:
- By the middle of the nineteenth century Central Asia was rarely out of the headlines, as one by one the ancient caravan towns and khanates of the former Silk Road fell to Russian arms.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 505:
- Sviatoslav had his own imperial ambitions, which led him to take an aggressive interest in the Christian khanate of Bulgaria.
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Translations
place ruled by a khan
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