"despotate" meaning in English

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          "text": "Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih (the Conqueror), took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders.",
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        "(historical) An area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)."
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