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An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Arab Monarch styled emir
Emir

Emir , is a high Nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World and historically in some Turkic peoples states and Afghanistan. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense....
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ologically emirate or amirate (Imaarah ; plural: ??????, Imaraat) is the quality, dignity, office or territorial competence of any emir
Emir

Emir , is a high Nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World and historically in some Turkic peoples states and Afghanistan. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense....
 (prince, governor etc.).

As monarchies
The United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....
 is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college
Electoral college

An electoral college is a set of Votings who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entity, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way....
 for the federation's President and Prime Minister.






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An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Arab Monarch styled emir
Emir

Emir , is a high Nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World and historically in some Turkic peoples states and Afghanistan. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense....
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Etymology

Etymologically emirate or amirate (Imaarah ; plural: ??????, Imaraat) is the quality, dignity, office or territorial competence of any emir
Emir

Emir , is a high Nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World and historically in some Turkic peoples states and Afghanistan. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense....
 (prince, governor etc.).

As monarchies


The United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....
 is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college
Electoral college

An electoral college is a set of Votings who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entity, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way....
 for the federation's President and Prime Minister. As most emirates have either disappeared, been integrated in a larger modern state or changed their rulers' styles, e.g. to Malik
Malik

Malik is an Arabic language word meaning "Monarch". It has been adopted in various other, mainly Languages of Asia for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere; furthermore it is sometimes used in derived meanings....
 (Arabic for King) or Sultan
Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
, such true emirate-states have become rare.

As provinces

Furthermore, in Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 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 (usually styled emir
Emir

Emir , is a high Nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World and historically in some Turkic peoples states and Afghanistan. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense....
) of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
n governorates.

List of independent Emirates

  • Kuwait
    Kuwait

    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
  • Qatar
    Qatar

    Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....
  • United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates

    The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....


List of former and integrated emirates

  • The Emirate of Armenia
  • Emirate of Sicily
    Emirate of Sicily

    The Emirate of Sicily was an Caliphate on the island of Sicily from 965 to 1072....
    , Sicily 965-1072
  • Emirate of Granada
    Emirate of Granada

    The Emirate of Granada was established in 1228, after the Almohad dynasty was defeated by the Christians at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The Almohad prince Idris had left Iberia to take the Almohad leadership, the ambitious Ibn al-Ahmar established the longest lasting Muslim dynasty on the Iberian peninsula - the Nasrids....
    , Spain 1228-1492
  • Caucasian Emirate
  • Emirate of Trarza
    Emirate of Trarza

    The Emirate of Trarza was a precolonial state in what is today southwest Mauritania, which has survived as a traditional confederation of semi-nomadic peoples to the present day....
    , modern southwest Mauritania
    Mauritania

    Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest....
     1640s-1910s
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
    Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

    Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was the name given to the nation of Afghanistan by the Taliban during their rule, from 1996 to 2001. At the peak of their influence the Taliban never controlled the entire area of Afghanistan, as about 10% of the country in the northeast was held by the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan....
  • Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
    Islamic Emirate of Waziristan

    The Islamic Emirate of Waziristan , also known as the Islamic Republic of Waziristan, is a rebel organization, in Waziristan, Pakistan that some commentators claim gained de facto recognition from the Government of Pakistan when it was named as party to the Waziristan Accord, the agreement reached between Islamabad and local tribe...
  • Az Zubayr
    Az Zubayr

    Az Zubayr is a Sunni town in Basra Governorate in Iraq. Some sources say it has a population of 184,900, others say 460,000 The coordinates are 30? 23' 21N, 47? 42' 29E....
  • Bahrain
    Bahrain

    The Kingdom of Bahrain, in , , literally Kingdom of the Two Seas).Bahrain is an Arabic island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa regime....
    , became a kingdom in 2002