Emirate facts for kids
An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by an emir, a dynastic Arab Monarch. 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.
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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
Images for kids
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Location of Afghanistan (grey), Kuwait (red), Qatar (green), and the emirates of the United Arab Emirates
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Ifriqiya under the Hafsids
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Trarza (upper left)
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Cyrenaica in Libya
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Beihan and Dhala in South Arabia
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Diriyah
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Nejd
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Jabal Shammar
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Asir at its height
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Saudi Arabian emirate divisions
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Bukhara
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Waziristan in Pakistan
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Ottoman emirate in 1300, labeled 'Osman'
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Timurid Emirate under the leadership of Timur
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Soran (at center)
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Transjordan
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Darband, Azerbaijan
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Armenia
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Córdoba
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Crete within modern Greece
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See also
In Spanish: Emirato para niños
