palatinate

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noun a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
noun a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine

From palatine + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

The letter bore the postmark of a city in the Rhenish Palatinate. — The Goose Man, Jakob Wassermann
The king now determined to conquer the Palatinate, which was held by a Spanish army. — The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
[153] This people inhabited that part of Lower Hungary now called the Palatinate of Pilis. — The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus

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