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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. Often within one family.
'Palatinate' can refer to the following:

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Germany

United Kingdom

Poland

Germany

★ Electoral Palatinate or County Palatine of the Rhine (German: ''Kurpfalz''), a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, including

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★ County Palatine of Lotharingia 915–1085

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★ County Palatine of the Rhine 1085–1356

★ Rhineland-Palatinate (''Rheinland-Pfalz''), federal state in western Germany

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★ Palatinate (region) (''Pfalz'' or ''Rheinpfalz''), in Rhineland-Palatinate

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★ Palatinate (wine region), in Rhineland-Palatinate

★ Upper Palatinate (''Oberpfalz''), administrative region in Bavaria

★ Several historic states of the Holy Roman Empire, subdivisions of the Palatinate:

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★ Palatinate-Simmern, based in Simmern

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★ Palatinate-Neumarkt, based in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

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★ Palatinate-Mosbach, based in Mosbach

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★ Palatinate-Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken

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★ Palatinate-Neuburg, based in Neuburg an der Donau

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★ Palatinate-Sulzbach, based in Sulzbach

★ 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

There were also several Palatinates in Poland. The status would be given to ancient Principalities when they were reunited in the Kingdom of Poland as the princely title would return to the King and the land would be infeudated to a Palatine, called ''Palatinus'' in Latin or ''Wojewoda'' in Polish (the Polish rendition of ''Dux Exercituum'' / ''Herzog'', as he would be the chief commander and next in rank to the King when there was only one royal Palatine). Later, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, new Palatinates would be created. For reasons explained above the term ''Palatinatus'' was merged with the Polish ''Województwo'' but remained ''Palatinatus'' in the official Latin documents of the state. Some authors claim that only the pre-XIX cent. Województwa should be translated as Palatinates. To them the word ''Province'' seems much better for the current administrative units also called ''Województwa'' as the current Wojewoda (Governor) can hardly be compared to the title and rank of his/her pre-XIX cent. namesake. But in church documents the word ''Palatinate'' is still used in early XX-th century when it clearly refers to a Województwo.
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