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principality

[ US /ˌpɹɪnsɪˈpæɫɪti/ ]
[ UK /pɹˌɪnsɪpˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. territory ruled by a prince

How To Use principality In A Sentence

  • Except for a brief period of French rule under Napoleon, the principality has been independent since 1912.
  • The king's tower in the castle, seat of government in the principality, was decorated with imperial eagles.
  • Hilti has its headquarters in Liechtenstein, a principality in Europe, near Switzerland and Austria.
  • When peace was finally made between England and France, after the wars described in the last chapter were over, one of the results of the treaty which was made was that certain provinces in the southwestern part of France were ceded to England, and formed into a principality called Aquitaine, and this principality was placed under the dominion of the Black Prince. Richard II Makers of History
  • Perched on a rock, the palace overlooks the principality that Rainier ruled for 56 years.
  • He was also the second leader, or nawab, of Awadh, a breakaway principality from the Mughal empire. New Delhi
  • Silver is described as a principality (or series of principalities?), so is it logical that our intrepid heroes can ride through one "district" in a day? Now available in one document!
  • Monaco still remains a principality that follows primogeniture, meaning that males take precedence over females in the line of succession.
  • 106 † Antioch, 107 whose situation had been less exposed to the calamities of the holy war, was finally occupied and ruined by Bondocdar, or Bibars, sultan of Egypt and Syria; the Latin principality was extinguished; and the first seat of the Christian name was dispeopled by the slaughter of seventeen, and the captivity of one hundred, thousand of her inhabitants. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Thereafter Wales was divided between the Principality, royal lands, and virtually independent marcher lordships.
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