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Palatinate

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Noun

1. palatinate, pfalz

a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine

2. palatinate

a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Palatinate

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noun
a territory ruled by a palatine prince or noble or count palatine
noun
1.  the Palatinate
2. 
a native or inhabitant of the Palatinate

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Palatinate

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noun
1.  [p-]
the territory ruled by a palatine
2. 
a person born or living in the Palatinate
historical region now part of Germany: in two parts: Lower Palatinate or Rhine Palatinate (on the Rhine east of Saarland) and the Upper Palatinate (in E Bavaria on the Danube)
see also Rhineland-Palatinate

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Palatinate

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n.
The office, powers, or territory of a palatine.
Either of two historical districts and former states of southern Germany. The Lower Palatinate is in southwest Germany between Luxembourg and the Rhine River; the Upper Palatinate is to the east in eastern Bavaria. They were once under the jurisdiction of the counts palatine, who became electors of the Holy Roman Empire in 1356 and were then known as electors palatine.

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