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

- meaning 'a trust or charge', originally one held in commendam. Originally, commanderies were benefices, particularly in the Church, held in commendam. Mediaeval...
- period, the commanderies at the borders flourished. This gave rise to a two-tier administrative system, with counties subordinate to commanderies. Each of...
- 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...
- 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 Commandery is a historic building open to visitors and located in the city of Worcester, England. It opened as a museum in 1977 and was for a while...
- seat of Nanhai Commandery was Panyu (番禺, in modern Guangzhou). In 214 BC, Qin dynasty conquered Lingnan and established three commanderies, Nanhai, Guilin...
- or zhou), commanderies (jun) and counties (xian). The early Han dynasty inherited a two-tiered system of government composed of commanderies and counties...
- ****an. Four Commanderies of Han with Jin in 106 BC Four Commanderies of Han in 3 AD Four Commanderies of Han Lelang Commandery Lintun Commandery Zhenfan Commandery...
- Youbeiping Commandery (Chinese: 右北平郡), or Beiping Commandery (Chinese: 北平郡) was a commandery in imperial China from the Warring States period to Tang...
- territory was reduced as new commanderies were formed and counties were transferred to other commanderies. The commandery was abolished in early Sui dynasty...