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Definition of Despotats
1. despotat [n] - See also: despotat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despotats
Literary usage of Despotats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography, with Accounts of the by Adolphus Louis Koeppen (1856)
"... with the city of Saloniki, Cassandria, and the promontory of Athos, inhabited
by monks. III. PELOPONNESUS, divided into the two despotats of ..."
2. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"... which he considers dependent upon q diminution in the quantity of the oxygen
necessary for the animal economy. despotats, (F.) Infirm soldiers, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Though unsuccessful in a siege of Constantinople, which he undertook in concert
with the Bulgarians (1235), he obtained supremacy over the despotats of ..."
4. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction by American Institute of Instruction, Meeting (1861)
"... Frankish Princes, of Principalities, Dukedoms, and despotats, which have left
their footprints among the classical ruins of the ancient civilization. ..."
5. History of the German Emperors and Their Contemporaries by Elizabeth Peake (1874)
"... the peninsula of Cassandra, and the promontory of Athos, inhabited by monks;
and the Peloponnesus, divided into the two despotats of Sparta and Patras, ..."