mar·gra·vi·ate

(mär-grā′vē-ĭt, -āt′) also mar·gra·vate (mär′grə-vāt′)

The territory governed by a margrave.

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margravate

(ˈmɑːɡrəvɪt) or

margraviate

1. (Historical Terms) the domain of a margrave

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the domain of a margrave

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mar•gra•vate

(ˈmɑr grəˌveɪt)

also mar•gra•vi•ate

(mɑrˈgreɪ viˌeɪt)

n.

the province or territory of a margrave.

[1695–1705]

Translations

markrabství

References in periodicals archive

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The third quartering has been preserved very poorly, but on the basis of the identification of the first two quarterings, the figure could be a lion for the landgravate of Thuringia or for the margravate of Meissen.

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Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 2001), 377-402, and in their essay "Eighteenth-Century Anabaptists in the Margravate of Baden and Neighboring Territories/' Mennonite Quarterly Revieio 75 (July 2001), 471-492.

Middle-class formation in rural society: Mennonite peasant merchants in the palatinate, Rhine Hesse, and the northern Rhine valley, 1740-1880

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