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
- The Emirate of Armenia
- Emirate of Sicily, Sicily 965-1072
- Emirate of Granada, Spain 1228-1492
- Emirate of Trarza, modern southwest Mauritania 1640s-1910s
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
- Az Zubayr
- Bahrain, became a kingdom in 2002
Emirate Media
Location of Afghanistan (grey), Kuwait (red), Qatar (green), and the emirates of the United Arab Emirates
The Emir of Kano on his throne
Ifriqiya under the Hafsids
Carte des peuplades du Sénégal de l'abbé David Boilat (1853).
The Ottoman Turks conquered the country in the mid-16th century, and the three States or "Wilayat" of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan (which make
Beihan and Dhala in South Arabia
Second Saudi State ( 1850 )
The Al-Rashid rule at its height.*source from wikicommons: Image:Alrasheed_hail.jpg. I removed the Arabic script and added Latin script.
Mapa de Asir 1915-1916 *Véase también: es:Wikipedia:Autorizaciones/Banderas de Jaume Ollé es:Categoría:Mapas de Asia (imagen)
