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Definition of sultan:

(n) : originally, a secular office, formally subordinate to -, but de facto the power behind the throne of the (theoretically universal) caliph; a hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire
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Definition of sultan:

(n) : originally, a secular office, formally subordinate to -, but de facto the power behind the throne of the (theoretically universal) caliph; a hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire

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