Definition of "khanates" []

• Plural form of khanate. (noun)

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• "Mongol Empire was broken into a variety of "khanates," all of which in course of time dwindled away."
• "The Russian expansion into Central Asia in the middle of the last century, which swallowed up all the independent countries and khanates east of the Caspian as far as China and south to Afghanistan, was con-ducted with considerable brutality."
• "The area of the proposed nomination was part of emerging and collapsing tribal unions, khanates, and the empires of the Scythians, Turks, Uigurs, Yenissey Kirgiz, Kidans, Mongols and Oirats."