Emirate

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For the United Arab Emirates airline, see Emirates Airline.

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

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Etymology

Etymologically emirate or amirate (Arabic: إمارة‎, Imaarah ; plural: إمارات, Imaraat) is the quality, dignity, office or territorial competence of any Emir (prince, governor etc.).

As monarchies

The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college 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 (Arabic for King) or Sultan, such true emirate-states have become rare.

As provinces

Furthermore, 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 (usually styled emir) of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabian governorates.

List of independent Emirates

List of former and integrated emirates

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Arabic terms for country subdivisions
First-level

Muhafazah (governorate, محافظة) · Shabiyah (شعبية‎) · Imarah (emirate, إمارة) · Wilayah (province, ولاية) · Qadaa (قضاء) · Mintaqah (area, often region, منطقة) · Mudiriya (directorate, مديرية‎) · Baladiyah (بلدية)
Second-level

Comona (كومونة) · Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi (مؤتمر شعبي أساسي) · Ḥai (حي) · Mahalla (محلة) · Markaz  · Mutamadiyah  · Nahiya (subdistrict, ناحية) · Sheyakha (subdistrict neighborhood) · Daïra (circle, دائرة‎)
Third-level

Baladiyah (بلدية)
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