margravate
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margravate (plural margravates)
- The status or rank of margrave.
- A territory governed by a margrave or margravine. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: marquisate, mark, march
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 174:
- From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy.
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territory governed by a margrave
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