Palatinate n. : The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.

Palatinate v. t. : To make a palatinate of.

Example:
What are the natural resources in the Rhineland Palatinate region of Germany?

Taxonomy
Palatinate, Bavaria, Rhenish Palatinate, Electoral Palatinate, the Rhine, the French, free encyclopedia, separatist movement, Palatinate German, Upper Palatinate, German federal state, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Bavarian government, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhein pfalz, Speyer, Kingdom of Bavaria, south-western Germany.

Defination from the web:
Palatinate wine region. Most of the cities of the Palatinate (Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Landau, Frankenthal, Neustadt) lie in the plain rhine rift in the east of the region, ...