Emirate

An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by an emir, a dynastic Arab Monarch. The word emirate or amirate comes from , Imaarah ; plural: إمارات, Imaraat.  The United Arab Emirates is a federal state of seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven elect the federation's President and Prime Minister. Most emirates have either disappeared or become part of a larger modern state, some changed their rulers' title, e.g. to Malik (Arabic for King) or Sultan. Therefore true emirate-states have become rare. 

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 of the royal family, as in Saudi Arabian governorates.Stig Stenslie, Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession (London; New York: Routledge, 2012), p. 33

 List of independent Emirates 
 Kuwait
 Qatar
 United Arab Emirates

 List of former and integrated emirates 
 The Emirate of Armenia
 Emirate of Sicily, Sicily 965-1072
 Emirate of Granada, Spain 1228-1492
 Emirate of Trarza, modern southwest Mauritania 1640s-1910s
 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
 Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
 Az Zubayr
 Bahrain, became a kingdom in 2002

 References 

 Other websites 
 What Is Life Really Like In Dubai, UAE?; YouTube

Category:Feudalism
Category:Forms of government