margravate

American  

[mahr-gruh-veyt] / ˈmɑr grəˌveɪt /

Also margraviate

noun

1. the province or territory of a margrave.

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margravate British  

/ mɑːˈɡreɪvɪɪt, ˈmɑːɡrəvɪt /

noun

1. the domain of a margrave

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Etymology

Origin of margravate

First recorded in 1695–1705; margrave + -ate ³

Example Sentences

Brandenburg was a district formerly inhabited by the Wends, a Slavic people, from whom it was taken in 926 by Henry the Fowler, King of Germany, of which kingdom it afterward became a margravate.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

Few historical developments are more distinctly traceable or of greater importance than that of the margravate of Brandenburg into the kingdom of Prussia, the principal state of the present German empire.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John

Henry the Fowler conquers the Slavonians; he establishes the margravate of Brandenburg.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The secular principalities, Bohemia, the Palatinate, the duchy of Saxony, and the margravate of Brandenburg, are declared indivisible and entire, descendible in the male line.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

Under Charlemagne it constituted a margravate, which in 843 passed into the hands of Louis the German, whose grandson Arnulf was the first to bear the title of duke of Carinthia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various