DESPOTATE

Meaning of DESPOTATE in English

-_pəˌtāt noun

also des·po·tat -tat

( -s )

Etymology: French despotat, from despote + -at -ate

: a state or principality ruled by a despot

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

DESPOTATE — Деспотия
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MOREA, DESPOTATE OF — autonomous Byzantine principality located on the Greek Peloponnese (Morea). It was established in the mid-14th century by the Byzantine emperor …
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EPIRUS, DESPOTATE OF — (12041337), Byzantine principality in the Balkans that was a centre of resistance for Byzantine Greeks during the western European occupation …
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DESPOTATE OF MOREA — Морейский деспотат
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DESPOTAT — noun see despotate
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CRUSADE — any of a series of military expeditions organized by Western Christians against Muslim powers in order to take possession of …
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VLACH — also called Romanian, or Ruman member of a European people constituting the major element in the populations of Romania and …
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SPARTA — Modern Greek Spart, historically Lacedaemon ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, Greece, and capital of the …
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PELOPONNESE — also called Peloponnesus, Modern Greek Pelopnnisos peninsula of 8,278 square miles (21,439 square km), a large, mountainous body of land …
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KASTORA — town, capital of the noms (department) of Kastora, Macedonia, northern Greece. The town stands on a promontory reaching out from …
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JOHN VI CANTACUZENUS — born 1292 died June 15, 1383, Mistra, Byzantine Empire statesman, Byzantine emperor, and historian whose dispute with John V Palaeologus …
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JOHN III DUCAS VATATZES — born 1193, Didymoteichos, Byzantine Empire died Nov. 3, 1254 emperor of Nicaea (122254) who, by acquiring territory, encouraging economic growth, …
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IONIAN ISLANDS — Modern Greek Inioi Nsoi, island group off the west coast of Greece, stretching south from the Albanian coast to the …
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IOANNINA — also spelled Yannina, or Janina city and capital, noms (department) of Ionnina, in the Epirus (piros) region of northwestern Greece. …
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HALICARNASSUS — ancient Greek city of Caria, situated on the Gulf of Cerameicus. According to tradition, it was founded by Dorian Troezen …
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GREECE, HISTORY OF — history of the area from the Byzantine period, beginning about AD 300, to the present. For earlier periods, see Aegean …
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EPIRUS — Modern Greek piros, coastal region of northwestern Greece and southern Albania. It extends from Valona Bay (Gji i Vlors) in …
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DOBRUJA — Romanian Dobrogea, Bulgarian Dobrudzha a region of the Balkan Peninsula, situated between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea. …
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CORFU — Modern Greek Krkira , ancient (Latin) Corcyra island in the Ionian Sea, with adjacent small islands making up the noms …
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CONSTANTINE XI (OR XII) PALAEOLOGUS — born Feb. 9, 1404, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Tur.] died May 29, 1453, Constantinople the last Byzantine emperor (144953), killed in …
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BYZANTINE EMPIRE — the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into …
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МОРЕЙСКИЙ ДЕСПОТАТ — Despotate of Morea
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