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n. - The position of a local chieftain; The realm of a local chieftain

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  • A Mongol khanate, ruling Egypt and much of the Near East.
  • The Yuan dynasty was a khanate of the Mughal emperor, Kublai Khan.
  • In 1868 Russia seized Samarcand, and established over the khanate of
  • Mahomet-Mollah, who was a cadi in the aoul of Jarach, in the khanate of
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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