Atabegate

Quick meaning: Atabegate is a noun meaning (historical) The realm administered by an atabeg.

Meaning

(historical) The realm administered by an atabeg.

More Meanings

1. (historical) The office of atabeg, in his role as tutor to a crown prince or as warlord.

Example Sentences

The Transjordanian highlands north of Bilad al-Sharat—the Balqa and the Sawad—remained part of the Burid atabegate of Damascus.

Zangī's southward advance threatened both the atabegate of Damascus and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and was met by an informal alliance between the two.

While the sultan thus hoped to retain the nominal allegiance of the great amīrs through the atabegate, they, on the other hand, saw in it a means to establish their virtual independence.

A closer parallel was the atabegate in the powerful medieval Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks, centered in Iran. The atabeg (Turkish for "father-governor") was the Seljuk possessor of the lala; in fact, the Ottomans sometimes used the two terms interchangeably.

Word Forms

• atabegates

Synonyms for atabegate

Depending on context, synonyms include governorate, province, emirate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include atabek, atabey, batab, zabti, beegum, zabt.

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