Despotate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries). historical

    "Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih (the Conqueror), took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders."

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"Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih (the Conqueror), took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders."

Etymology

From despot + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it). Compare despotat.

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