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despotate

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from δεσπότης
  2. derived from despota
  3. derived from despote
  4. borrowed from despote
  5. formed as despotate — “despot + -ate”

Definitions

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

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

    • 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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