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An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Islamic monarch styled emir. It also means principality.[1]
Etymologically emirate or amirate (Arabic: إمارة imārah, plural: إمارات imārāt) is the quality, dignity, office or territorial competence of any emir (prince, commander, governor etc.).
The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college for the federation's President and Prime Minister. 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.
Furthermore, in 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 Arabian governorates.
A list of emirates that have either ceased to exist, are not recognized and hold no real power, or were integrated into another country and preserved as "traditional states" arranged by location and in order of the date of the first leader styled "emir."
Córdoba
Badajoz
Granada
Crete within modern Greece
Sicily (at bottom)
Armenia
Ottoman emirate in 1300, labeled 'Osman'
Timurid Emirate under the leadership of Timur
Soran (at center)
Transjordan
Beihan and Dhala in South Arabia
Diriyah
Nejd
Jabal Shammar
Asir at its height
Bahrain
Saudi Arabian emirate divisions
Bukhara
Emirate of Afghanistan
Khotan in modern China
Waziristan in Pakistan
Ifriqiya under the Hafsids
Trarza (upper left)
Cyrenaica in Libya
Lagos, Yoruba people, Kano, Port Harcourt, Abuja
Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen, Arabic language, Kuwait
Madrid, Andalusia, Portugal, European Union, Barcelona
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, United Kingdom, Syria
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Asia, Chechnya, Russia
United Arab Emirates, Oman, Ras al-Khaimah, Emirates of the United Arab Emirates, Umm al-Quwain
Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Vatican City, Andorra, Qatar
Fujairah, Oman, Ajman, Persian Gulf, Mombasa
United Arab Emirates, Emirate of Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ajman
Ajman, Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah, Emirates of the United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates