Definition of Commanderies. Meaning of Commanderies. Synonyms of Commanderies

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Definition of Commanderies

Commanderies
Commandery Com*mand"er*y, n.; pl. Commanderies. [F. commanderie.] 1. The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.] 2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory. 3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [U. S.] 4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [R.] --Brougham.

Meaning of Commanderies from wikipedia

- priories), subdivided into bailiwicks, which in turn were divided into commanderies or commendæ; these were placed in charge of a commendator or commander...
- period, the commanderies at the borders flourished. This gave rise to a two-tier administrative system, with counties subordinate to commanderies. Each of...
- until Goguryeo conquered it in 313. The Lelang Commandery extended the rule of the Four Commanderies of Han as far south as the Han River in present-day...
- The Four Commanderies of Han (Chinese: 漢四郡; pinyin: Hàn-sìjùn; Korean: 한사군; Hanja: 漢四郡; RR: Han-sagun) were Chinese commanderies located in the north...
- The Daifang Commandery was an administrative division established by the Chinese Han dynasty on the Korean Peninsula between 204 and 220. It was conquered...
- or zhou), commanderies (jun) and counties (xian). The early Han dynasty inherited a two-tiered system of government composed of commanderies and counties...
- Wuxing commanderies were later formed between the Yangtze and the north s**** of Hangzhou Bay; the administration of the remainder of Kuaiji Commandery was...
- such as raising militias across the commanderies under his jurisdiction to suppress a rebellion. A commandery consisted of a group of counties, and...
- Shanyang Commandery (Chinese: 山陽郡) was a historical commandery in China, located in present-day southern Shandong province. In the early Han dynasty,...
- Han dynasty, the commandery administered 37 counties and had a po****tion of 2,100,788, in 404,448 households. Two new commanderies, Yiyang and Ruyin...