Herrschaftsbildung

07:42 Mar 5, 2015 

My new profile photo and my working languages ;-)

01:11 Mar 5, 2015 

Clue 1: We're talking about (the country) which is much wider than the area XXY where this principality was, but it now exists as a country covering an area where there was in general a lot of variation in who had power over which region and what form of government that was, sometimes subject to external powers that had invaded etc. etc.
Clue 2: This principality existed in one period of the past history of one part of the country, which now has a different form of government.

18:25 Mar 4, 2015 

Thanks Horst - That is a very useful comment.

Wendy: My somewhat 'coy' context doesn't make it clear that this principality existed in one period of the past history of one part of the country, which now has a different form of government.

18:17 Mar 4, 2015 

Maybe you could change it completely? Along the lines of "To this very day the Principality of XXY plays a dominating/significant role in the power structure of (the country)."

15:19 Mar 4, 2015 

"Herrschaftsbildung" denotes the form that rule, rulership or lordship takes, the way it is institutionalised. A "ruling entity" is one that predominates over other "entities", which is probably not intended here.

15:15 Mar 4, 2015 

Hi phil

I'm sorry, but that's my decision and I, too, often complain about lack of context, so sorry if you think my extensive explanation paragraph is too little.

The sentence is actually the opening sentence of an academic article on "The Rise of the Principality of XXY":

And the "most famous" here is me "reading between the spaces" of the author་ since I'm familiar with the subject matter and know that "one of the most famous" is also true in this case.

15:03 Mar 4, 2015 

It doesn't mean "most famous" -that's "berühmtesten". Trouble is, you've given us so little context it's hard to know how to translate it. It would be useful to know what it says before and after this, and I don't see any point in concealing the name.

13:39 Mar 4, 2015 

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13:11 Mar 4, 2015 

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12:07 Mar 4, 2015 

Hehe, I think I've just come up with a suggestion myself: ruling entities

Here's a link where is is used in a very similiar context:
https://books.google.de/books?id=pZS4L6hMGUUC&lpg=PA81&ots=V...

12:05 Mar 4, 2015 

Thanks Elisabeth. There is another instance of the same term in the text where the emphasis is on the 'emerging'. And even in this sentence I like your phrasing.

Regards 'ruling establishment' I think the author is using '-bildung' here more in the sense of 'Gebilde' - the 'entity' that is formed to rule. See my comment below to the 'domain' answer.

11:58 Mar 4, 2015 

It's an unpublished paper so I don't like to post anything that identifies my client.

11:23 Mar 4, 2015 

But hard to say without knowing which country or principality. Why so coy?

11:15 Mar 4, 2015 

to amend your own translation to read something like: ...one of the most famous ruling establishment to emerge (out of this country)...
I think that brings out the sense of "-bildung".
Linguee has a reference that includes "emerging power structures" for Herrschaftsbildung. Maybe that would be another approach or an idea you could somehow incorporate?