khanate

plural khanates · alternative obsolete Khanate · alternative obsolete chanate

1. The polity ruled by a khan, comprising one or more tribes or clans; a state or dominion ruled by this polity; its territory.

   Sviatoslav had his own imperial ambitions, which led him to take an aggressive interest in the Christian khanate of Bulgaria.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 505

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   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.

   1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, pages 5–6

plural Khanates

1. alternativeAlternative form of khanate.

   Russian subjects are accorded the right of possessing real property in the Khanate.

   1875, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, England and Russia in the East, page 396

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   All towns and villages within the Khanate of Khiva shall henceforward be open to Russian trade.

   1874, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 76, page 5

   A more important fragment of the Golden Horde is that whose history is told in the seventh chapter, namely, the Khanate of Krim, or the Crimea, which was only crushed and annexed by Russia at the end of the last century.

   1880, Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, page x