vassal state — noun : a state with varying degrees of independence in its internal affairs but dominated by another state in its foreign affairs and potentially wholly subject to the dominating state … Useful english dictionary
State organisation of the Ottoman Empire — House of Osman (Ottoman Dynasty) … Wikipedia
Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire — Vassal States were a number of tributary or vassal states, usually on the periphery of the Ottoman Empire under suzerainty of the Porte, over which direct control was not established, for various reasons. FunctionsSome of these states served as… … Wikipedia
Vassal — For other uses, see Vassal (disambiguation). English Feudalism … Wikipedia
vassal — vas|sal [ˈvæsəl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus servant ] 1.) a man in the Middle Ages who was given land to live on by a lord in return for promising to work or fight for him 2.) formal a country… … Dictionary of contemporary English
vassal — noun (C) 1 a man in the middle ages who was given land to live on by a lord in return for promising to work or fight for him 2 formal a country that is controlled by another country: a vassal state … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Chu (state) — State of Chu 楚国/楚國 Kingdom ← … Wikipedia
Zheng (state) — State of Zhèng 鄭國/郑国 806 BC–375 BC … Wikipedia
State (polity) — This article is about the general concept of the state. For the subjects of international law, see Sovereign state. For other uses, see State (disambiguation). The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan A state is an organised political… … Wikipedia
vassal — /vsesal/ A feudal tenant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal tenure, and by the obligation of performing feudal services. The correlative term was lord. The vassal himself might have been lord of some other vassal. In later… … Black's law dictionary
