Palatinate

Palatinate or county palatine may refer to:

• the territory or jurisdiction of a count palatine

United Kingdom and Ireland

• County palatine in England and Ireland
• Palatinate (colour), a shade of purple used by the City of Durham and Durham University
• Palatinate (newspaper), student newspaper of Durham University

Germany

• Electoral Palatinate (1085–1803), or County Palatine of the Rhine (1085–1803; German: Kurpfalz), a historical state of the Holy Roman Empire
• Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), federal state in western Germany
  • Palatinate (region) (Pfalz, former Rheinpfalz), in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • The Bavarian Circle of the Rhine, a detached part of Bavaria from 1816 until 1946 which was renamed Palatinate (Pfalz) in 1837 (sometimes called the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz)). Became part of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 and is the predecessor and namesake of the modern region.
  • Palatinate (wine region), in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Palatinate Forest
• Palatinate of Saxony (Pfalzgrafschaft Sachsen), a historical palatinate in the Saale-Unstrut region
• Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), administrative region in Bavaria
• Several sub-branches of the Palatine branch of the House of Wittelsbach:
  • House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld, based in Birkenfeld
  • Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, based in Bischwiller
  • Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen, based in Gelnhausen
  • Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken
  • Palatinate-Kleeburg, based in Kleeburg
  • Palatinate-Landsberg, based at Landsberg Castle in Heiligenstein
  • Palatinate-Lautern, based in Kaiserslautern and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • Palatinate-Mosbach, based in Mosbach
  • Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt, based in Mosbach
  • Palatinate-Neuburg, based in Neuburg an der Donau
  • House of Palatinate-Neumarkt, based in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
  • House of Palatinate-Simmern, based in Simmern
  • Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken
  • Palatinate-Simmern-Kaiserslautern, based in Simmern
  • Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim, based in Simmern
  • Palatinate-Sulzbach, based in Sulzbach
  • Palatinate-Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein, based in Hilpoltstein
  • Palatine Zweibrücken, based in Zweibrücken
  • Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, based in Birkenfeld
  • Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein, based in Vohenstrauss

Greece

• County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos

Hungary

• Palatine of Hungary
• List of palatines of Hungary

Poland

• Voivodeships of Poland

Ukraine

• Subdivisions of Zaporozhian Sich and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (also known as voivodeships)

See also

• Palatine (disambiguation)
• Pfalz (disambiguation)
• Pfaltz (disambiguation)