Emirate

An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by an emir, a dynastic Arab Monarch.[1] The word emirate or amirate comes from Arabic: إمارة, Imaarah ; plural: إمارات, Imaraat. The United Arab Emirates is a federal state of seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven elect the federation's President and Prime Minister. Most emirates have either disappeared or become part of a larger modern state, some changed their rulers' title, e.g. to Malik (Arabic for King) or Sultan. Therefore true emirate-states have become rare.

In Arabic the term can be generalized to mean any province of a country that is administered by a member of the ruling class, especially of a member of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabian governorates.[2]

List of independent Emirates

List of former and integrated emirates

Emirate Media

References

  1. "emirate". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. Stig Stenslie, Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession (London; New York: Routledge, 2012), p. 33

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