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What is a despotate?

What is a despotate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).
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The Ottomans moved through the Morea and conquered virtually the entire Despotate by the summer.
Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih, took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders.
He places his latest novel, Despot i 6rtva, in the despotate of Serbia in the fifteenth century, almost a hundred years after the battle of Kosovo.
The Despotate continued on as an independent state by paying an annual tribute to the Ottomans.

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