sultanate
noun
Examples of sultanate in a Sentence
Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, embassies, sultanate palaces, and colonial villas have been steadily restored, including Perdicaris Villa in Rmilat, a 70-hectare urban forest, and the new Museum of Contemporary Art in the former casbah prison, dedicated to the north Moroccan postwar canon of abstract painters.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
The Sulu sultanate ruled the islands in the Sulu Archipelago, which are part of Mindanao in today’s Philippines.
—Jenny Che, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
The couple, who per Tatler are first cousins, began their wedding festivities in the independent sultanate on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia on Jan. 8.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
The images correspond to known landmarks around Sohar, the first major city people enter in the sultanate after crossing the border from neighboring United Arab Emirates.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
Once a sultanate, Ilisu features quaint stone houses and thermal springs that are said to have healing properties.
—Nell Lewis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
In the 1950s, as Africans across the continent began agitating for independence, Zanzibar witnessed an increasingly bloody struggle for democratic rule that would put an end to a sultanate that — backed by British colonial administrators — had ruled for 100 years.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
Omani state television broadcast images of flooded roadways and valleys as the storm churned deeper into the sultanate, its outer edges reaching the neighboring United Arab Emirates.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
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1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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