Emirate

An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by an emir, a dynastic Arab Monarch.^[1] The word emirate or amirate comes from Arabic: إمارة, Imaarah ; plural: إمارات, Imaraat. The United Arab Emirates is a federal state of seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven elect the federation's President and Prime Minister. Most emirates have either disappeared or become part of a larger modern state, some changed their rulers' title, e.g. to Malik (Arabic for King) or Sultan. Therefore true emirate-states have become rare.

In Arabic 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 of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabian governorates.^[2]

List of independent Emirates

List of former and integrated emirates

The Emirate of Armenia
Emirate of Sicily, Sicily 965-1072
Emirate of Granada, Spain 1228-1492
Emirate of Trarza, modern southwest Mauritania 1640s-1910s
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
Az Zubayr
Bahrain, became a kingdom in 2002

References

↑ "emirate". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
↑ Stig Stenslie, Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession (London; New York: Routledge, 2012), p. 33

Other websites

What Is Life Really Like In Dubai, UAE?; YouTube

[1] "emirate". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

[2] Stig Stenslie, Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession (London; New York: Routledge, 2012), p. 33

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