Palatinate

It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just because I was out dancing around on the Brighton Pier doesn't mean that kate_schaeffer, huboffline, and palatinate will go unscathed or unspanked into another year! ❋ Kate_schaeffer (2010)

And today, palatinate, you are on the business end of the Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness! ❋ Palatinate (2009)

Disney World is close to being an extraconstitutional entity, a business palatinate within a soi-disant democracy. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

Outside the city, though, in the new settlements, Protestants were becoming the majority The Brouard lands lay in Nassau, a region in the top right-hand corner of Florida named by the British for the ancestral palatinate of the anti-Papist William III. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

Chatted with palatinate on star glamour whom I hadn't seen all weekend --it's hard to bump into people here: Pyr has wisely monopolised the Hilton bar, lounge lizards that we are and Tim and Serena Powers on the big balcony on the merry joys of Disneyland. ❋ Palatinate (2006)

Frederick II convinced Charles Augustus Christian, duke ofthe palatinate of Zweibrücken, to contest Austrian claims. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Charles Augustus Christian, duke of the palatinate of Zweibrücken ❋ Unknown (2001)

Between 1594 and 1603, Hugh O'Neill, the renegade earl of Tyrone, led a rebellion to secure his palatinate rule over Ulster. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Then it was held, subordinately, by the Monthault, or Montalt, family, the stewards of the palatinate of Chester. ❋ Cook, Richard B (1989)

Warmia, and the palatinates of Marienberg and Culm, with the complete command of the lower part of the Vistula; and to Austria the country along the left bank of the Vistula, from Vielicza down to the confluence of the river Viroz, the whole of the country called Red Russia, the palatinate of Belz, and a portion of the province of Volhynia. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)

Casimir, part of the palatinate of Lublin, and some lands lying on the right bank of the Bog. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)

In the palatinate of Durham also, the bishop had his barons, among whom the ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1522 he was pastor at Landstuhl in the palatinate, and travelled hither and thither propagating the reformed doctrine. ❋ Various (N/A)

But if it was, he appears to have changed his views; for not long afterwards he granted large fiefs with palatinate jurisdiction to various Normans who had made their way over to Ireland independently. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He afterwards became the tool of the Russian policy, and was rewarded with the first palatinate of the kingdom. ❋ Various (N/A)

Ultimately, to reward his many services, Edward III. created him, about 1348, duke of Lancaster, and the county of Lancaster was formed into a palatinate or principality. ❋ Various (N/A)

Wakefield and its vicinity appear to possess facilities for the accomplishment of such a project, inferior to no district within this great palatinate, indeed, little inferior to any in the kingdom. ❋ Samuel Felton (N/A)