khanate

noun

1. The polity ruled by a khan, comprising one or more tribes or clans; a state or dominion ruled by this polity; its territory.

   “By the middle of the nineteenth century Central Asia was rarely out of the headlines, as one by one the ancient caravan towns and khanates of the former Silk Road fell to Russian arms.”

   “Sviatoslav had his own imperial ambitions, which led him to take an aggressive interest in the Christian khanate of Bulgaria.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of khanate.

   “All towns and villages within the Khanate of Khiva shall henceforward be open to Russian trade.”

   “Russian subjects are accorded the right of possessing real property in the Khanate.”

   “A more important fragment of the Golden Horde is that whose history is told in the seventh chapter, namely, the Khanate of Krim, or the Crimea, which was only crushed and annexed by Russia at the end of the last century.”