exarchate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of exarchate
First recorded in 1555–65, exarchate is from the Medieval Latin word exarchātus domain of an exarch. See exarch 1, -ate 3
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During a period of two hundred years, Italy was unequally divided between the kingdom of the Lombards and the exarchate of Ravenna.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman
Again, when Pepin obliged the Lombard king to cede the exarchate of Ravenna not to the emperor but to Rome, the words employed were: "to the Holy Church and the Roman Republic."
From Rome by Hope Malleson
On the map of Italy, the measure of the exarchate occupies a very inadequate space, but it included an ample proportion of wealth, industry, and population.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman
A thriving maritime community had been established, which about this time had developed into a semi-independent protectorate of the Byzantine or Eastern Empire, attached to the exarchate of Ravenna.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
They were asserting that the exarchate had ceased in political theory as well as in practical fact.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton
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