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Etymologically an '''emirate''' or '''amirate''' ({{lang-ar|'''إمارة'''}}, ''Imaarah'' ; plural: إمارات, ''Imaraat'') is the quality, dignity, office or territorial competence of any [[Emir]] (prince, governor etc.).
==As monarchies==
Generally speaking, an emirate designates a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Arab Monarch styled [[emir]].
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.
An example of this use persists in the [[United Arab Emirates]], a federal nation that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the [[electoral college]] for the federation's President and PM.
==As provinces==
Furthermore, in [[Arabic language|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 Arabia]]n governorates.
==List of independent Emirates==
*[[Kuwait]]
*[[Qatar]]
*[[United Arab Emirates]]
==List of former and integrated emirates==
*[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]
*[[The Emirate of Armenia]]
*[[Islamic Emirate of Waziristan]]
*[[Az Zubayr]]
*[[Bahrain]], became a kingdom in 2002
*[[Emirate of Trarza]], modern southwest [[Mauritania]] 1640s-1910s
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