Khanate

Khanate (plural Khanates)

1. Alternative form of khanate.
   • 1874, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 76, page 5:

     All towns and villages within the Khanate of Khiva shall henceforward be open to Russian trade.

   • 1875, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, England and Russia in the East, page 396:

     Russian subjects are accorded the right of possessing real property in the Khanate.

   • 1880, Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, page x:

     A more important fragment of the Golden Horde is that whose history is told in the seventh chapter, namely, the Khanate of Krim, or the Crimea, which was only crushed and annexed by Russia at the end of the last century.