despotate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From despot + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it). Compare despotat.
Noun
[edit]despotate (plural despotates)
- (historical) An area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).
- Synonym: despotat
- 1974, Vladimir Dedijer, History of Yugoslavia, page 129:
- 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.