demesne

an estate held in fee simple or for life

plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office

land or property held under a lease

a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation

land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

a piece of land held under the feudal system

the estate of a baron

an estate in the country

land that belongs to the Crown

the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)

the estate of a seigneur

a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries

an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas

land received by fee tail

an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome

an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament

an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC

a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire

an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria

one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria

a constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera

a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital

the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess

the domain of a baron

the domain controlled by a duke or duchess

the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess

the domain controlled by an emir

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

the domain controlled by a feudal lord

the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess

the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess

the realm of a khan

the domain ruled by a king or queen

territory ruled by a prince

the domain ruled by a sheik

the domain of a suzerain