principality

noun

1. (countable)A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.

   “At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities, which were frequently at war with one another.”

   “The principality of Freedonia (www.freedonia.org), an earnest collective of secessionist superlibertarians based in Boston, falls into the first category.”

2. (countable)A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the third lowest level of angels, ranked above archangels and below powers.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.
4. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The state of being principal; pre-eminence.

name

1. Wales

   “The first information I have of a sermon at an association, in the Principality, is in the letter of 1703, which appoints one to be preached the following year.”

   “During the last decade or so Wales has attracted about 10 per cent of British holiday-makers. According to a sample survey carried out in 1961, the Principality accommodated 4 million people in that year who spent a total of 28-million holiday nights.”

   “Welshmen from throughout the Principality, as well as well-known international players, came to Cardiff to don the famous balck-and-blue jersey.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of principality; any of the actual extant principalities.

   “The affair led to a crisis in relations between France and the Principality, with the French Government overruling Prince Rainier by refusing to extend the mandate of Monaco's Chief Prosecutor”