Noun: palatinate pu'la-ti-nut
- A territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
"The Palatinate was an important region in medieval Germany"
- A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
- Pfalz
Derived forms: palatinates
Type of: district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory
Part of: Deutschland, Federal Republic of Germany, FRG, Germany
Encyclopedia: Palatinate, Rhenish