Palatinate

A palatinate is a territory administered by a Count palatine, originally the direct representative of a sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown's overlordship. In Poland the Palatines remained non-hereditary or semi-hereditary, appointed for a lifetime by the King and are often within one family.

Palatinate can refer to the following:

Germany

Electoral Palatinate or County Palatine of the Rhine (German: Kurpfalz), a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, including
County Palatine of Lotharingia 915–1085
County Palatine of the Rhine 1085–1356
Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), federal state in western Germany
Palatinate (region) (Pfalz, former Rheinpfalz), in Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate (wine region), in Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate Forest
Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), administrative region in Bavaria
Several branches of the Palatine branch of the House of Wittelsbach:
Palatinate-Birkenfeld, based in Birkenfeld
Palatinate-Mosbach, based in Mosbach
Palatinate-Neuburg, based in Neuburg an der Donau
Palatinate-Neumarkt, based in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Palatinate-Simmern, based in Simmern
Palatinate-Sulzbach, based in Sulzbach
Palatinate-Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken
for other objects named Pfalz in German see Pfalz

United Kingdom

County palatine in England
Palatinate, student newspaper of Durham University
Palatinate (colour), a shade of purple used in the colours of the County of Durham.

Poland

see voivodeships of Poland

Translation of "Palatinate"

German: Pfalz, French: Palatinat, Dutch: Palts, Portuguese: Palatinado, Ripuarian: Pallz (Watt ėßß datt?), Romanian: Palatinat (dezambiguizare), Russian: Пфальц (значения).