dominion

1. Dominance or power through legal authority (synset 114466399)
   "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"
   is a type of: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance - the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
   subtypes:

   • paramountcy - the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority
   • raj - British dominion over India (1757-1947)
   • reign, sovereignty - royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
   • suzerainty - the position or authority of a suzerain
   same as: rule
2. A region marked off for administrative or other purposes (synset 108569713)
   is a type of: region - a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
   subtypes:

   • administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes
   • border district, borderland, march, marchland - district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
   • city district - a district of a town or city
   • congressional district - a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
   • development - a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
   • enclave - an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
   • palatinate - a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
   • community, residential area, residential district - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
   • goldfield - a district where gold is mined
   • jurisdiction - in law; the territory within which power can be exercised
   • mandate, mandatory - a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
   • associated state, protectorate - a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
   • possession - a territory that is controlled by a ruling state
   • trust territory, trusteeship - a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations
   • british east africa - the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar
   • british west africa - the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast
   specific instances:

   • palatinate, pfalz - a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
   • athos, mount athos - an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
   • attica - the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
   • boeotia - a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens
   • papal states - the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy)
   • acadia - the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces
   • northwest territories - a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut
   • nunavut - an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago
   • yukon, yukon territory - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
   • northern territory - a territory in north central Australia
   • northern mariana islands, northern marianas - a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam
   • acre - a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
   • lake district, lakeland - a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain
   • galloway - a district in southwestern Scotland
   • lothian region - a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh
   • east malaysia - the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo
   • malaya, peninsular malaysia, west malaysia - the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north
   • kwazulu-natal, natal - a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean
   • american samoa, as, eastern samoa - a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
   • aragon - a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I)
   • castile, castilla - a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479
   • catalonia - a region of northeastern Spain
   • darfur - an impoverished region of western Sudan
   • kordofan - a mountainous province of central Sudan
   • louisiana purchase - territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada
   same as: district, territorial dominion, territory
3. One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth (synset 108184148)
   is a type of: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state - a politically organized body of people under a single government

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