Palatinate
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A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of a sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown's overlordship. In Poland the Palatines remained non-hereditary or semi-hereditary, appointed for a lifetime by the King and are often within one family.
Palatinate can refer to the following:
[edit] Germany
- Electoral Palatinate or County Palatine of the Rhine (German: Kurpfalz), a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, including
- County Palatine of Lotharingia 915–1085
- County Palatine of the Rhine 1085–1356
- Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), federal state in western Germany
- Palatinate (region) (Pfalz, former Rheinpfalz), in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Palatinate (wine region), in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Palatinate Forest
- Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), administrative region in Bavaria
- Several historic states of the Holy Roman Empire, subdivisions of the Palatinate:
- Palatinate-Simmern, based in Simmern
- Palatinate-Neumarkt, based in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
- Palatinate-Mosbach, based in Mosbach
- Palatinate-Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken
- Palatinate-Neuburg, based in Neuburg an der Donau
- Palatinate-Sulzbach, based in Sulzbach
- for other objects named Pfalz in German see Pfalz
[edit] United Kingdom
- County palatine in England
- Palatinate, student newspaper of Durham University
- Palatinate (colour), a shade of purple used in the colours of the County of Durham.
[edit] Poland
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