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n. The lord or military governor of a medieval German border province.

n. Used as a hereditary title for certain princes in the Holy Roman Empire.

n. A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.

n. A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.

n. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

n. The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.

n. A German title (markgraf), ‘count or earl of a mark’ or border province: equivalent to marquis.

n. a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)

n. the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany

"Charlemagne had established a strong body of troops under a commander who was called a margrave; and for some centuries this city, commanding the Danube, had been deemed one of the strongest defenses of the empire against Mohammedan invasion."

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