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Appanage

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, appanage means: Land or revenue assigned to a member of a ruling family, often a younger child, for support.

In Turkish: apanaj, hanedan mensubuna ayrılan gelir veya toprak

How it is used

Explain whether the grant conveyed income, jurisdiction or both in the particular case.

Example sentences

  1. The younger prince received an appanage rather than the crown.

    The grant supports a dynastic member outside the main succession.

  2. Revenue accounts reveal how the appanage funded the princess's household.

    An appanage can be studied as an income arrangement.

Common collocations

  • grant an appanage
  • an appanage estate
  • dynastyA series of rulers who come from the same family and pass power from one generation to the next, or the period during which such a family rules.
  • successionThe process by which a new ruler takes the place of the previous one, and the rules or customs that decide who has the right to the throne.

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