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Beylik Of The West
Beylik is a Turkish word, meaning "the territory under the jurisdiction of a Bey", and may refer to: * Duchy or principality, typically in the Middle East * Beylik of Çubukoğulları * Beylik of Bafra * Beylik of Hacıemir, an beylik in the north Anatolia in a part of 14th and 15th centuries * Beylik of Dulkadir, one of the frontier principalities * Beylik of Erzincan, a principality in east Anatolia, Turkey in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries * Beylik, Karacabey * Beylik of Tacettin, a small Turkmen principality in Anatolia in the 14th and 15th centuries * Beylik of Tunis * Anatolian beyliks * Beuluk, a member of the Ottoman sultan's janissary bodyguard * Bəylik (other), places in Azerbaijan * Beylik, administrative units (historic divisions) of Crimean Khanate in Tatar Crimea {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Duchy
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fiefdom, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or Queen regnant, queen in Western European tradition. There once existed an important difference between "sovereign dukes" and dukes who were ordinary noblemen throughout Europe. Some historic duchies were sovereign in areas that would become part of nation-states only during the modern era, such as happened in Germany (once a federal empire) and Italy (previously a unified kingdom). In contrast, others were subordinate districts of those Kingdom (politics), kingdoms that had unified either partially or completely during the medieval era, such as France, Spain, Sicily, Naples, and the Papal States. Examples In France, several duchies existed in the medieval period, including Duchy of Normandy, Normandy, Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy, Brittany, and Aquitaine. The medieval German Stem duchy, stem duchies (, literally "tribal duchy," ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |