Sanjak, the Glossary
A sanjak (سنجاق,, "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
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89 relations: Acre Sanjak, Administrative division, Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, Arabic, Armenian language, Baghdad Eyalet, Bandon (Byzantine Empire), Banner (administrative division), Banners of Inner Mongolia, Basra Eyalet, Bey, Bitlis, Bulgarian language, Byzantine Empire, Calque, Childir Eyalet, Damascus Eyalet, Diyarbekir Eyalet, Druze, English language, Eparchy, Eurasian Steppe, Eyalet, Greek language, Hatay Province, Hejaz vilayet, Jerusalem Sanjak, Judaeo-Spanish, Kadi (Ottoman Empire), Kadiluk, Kaymakam, Kaza, Kilis, Kozhuun, Lahsa Eyalet, Languages of the Ottoman Empire, Latakia Sanjak, Liwa (Arabic), Manchu people, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Ministry of home affairs, Mintaqah, Mongols, Montenegro, Morea Eyalet, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Mutasarrif, Nablus Sanjak, Nahiyah, ... Expand index (39 more) »
- Former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire
Acre Sanjak
The Sanjak of Acre (سنجق عكا; Akka Sancağı), often referred as Late Ottoman Galilee, was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day northern Israel.
Administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided. Sanjak and administrative division are types of administrative division.
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Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire
The administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire were administrative divisions of the state organisation of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire are subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.
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Baghdad Eyalet
Baghdad Eyalet (Eyālet-i Baġdād) was an Iraqi eyalet of the Ottoman Empire centered on Baghdad.
Bandon (Byzantine Empire)
The bandon (βάνδον) was the basic military unit and administrative territorial entity of the middle Byzantine Empire. Sanjak and bandon (Byzantine Empire) are types of administrative division.
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Banner is a type of administrative division, and may more specifically refer to. Sanjak and Banner (administrative division) are types of administrative division.
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A banner ("khoshun" in Mongolian) is an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, equivalent to a county-level administrative division.
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Basra Eyalet
Basra Eyalet (إيالة البصرة, Eyālet-i Baṣrâ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Bey
Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg or Beg, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and an honorific title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe. Sanjak and Bey are Turkish words and phrases.
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Bitlis
Bitlis (translit or; script) is a city in southeastern Turkey.
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (bŭlgarski ezik) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
Childir Eyalet
The Eyalet of Childir (translit) or AkhalzikOther variants of this name include Akalzike (from) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire in the Southwestern Caucasus.
Damascus Eyalet
Damascus Eyalet (إيالة دمشق; Eyālet-i Šām) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
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Diyarbekir Eyalet
The Eyalet of Diyarbekir (إيالة ديار بكر; Eyālet-i Diyār-i Bekr) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
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Druze
The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Eparchy
Eparchy (ἐπαρχία eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity.
Eurasian Steppe
The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome.
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Eyalet
Eyalets (ایالت), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were the primary administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and Eyalet are former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire and types of administrative division.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hatay Province
Hatay Province (Hatay ili,, translit) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey.
Hejaz vilayet
The Vilayet of the Hejaz (Wilayat al-Ḥijāz; font Vilâyet-i Hicaz) refers to the Hejaz region of Arabia when it was administered as a first-level province (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire.
Jerusalem Sanjak
The Sanjak of Jerusalem (Sancâk-ı Kudüs; Sanjaq al-Quds) was an Ottoman sanjak that formed part of the Damascus Eyalet for much of its existence.
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Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish.
Kadi (Ottoman Empire)
A kadi (قاضی) was an official in the Ottoman Empire.
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Kadiluk
A kadiluk (قاضیـلق) was the jurisdiction of a kadi, an Islamic judge under the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and kadiluk are former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish words and phrases and types of administrative division.
Kaymakam
Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. Sanjak and Kaymakam are Turkish words and phrases.
Kaza
A kaza (قضا, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and kaza are subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire and types of administrative division.
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Kilis
Kilis is a city in southernmost Turkey, near the border with Syria, and the administrative centre of Kilis Province and Kilis District.
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Kozhuun
Kozhuun (Кожуун) is the Tuvan term of an historical feudal administrative division known as a banner. Sanjak and Kozhuun are types of administrative division.
Lahsa Eyalet
Lahsa Eyalet (إيالة الأحساء; Eyālet-i Laḥsā) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Languages of the Ottoman Empire
The language of the court and government of the Ottoman Empire was Ottoman Turkish, but many other languages were in contemporary use in parts of the empire.
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Latakia Sanjak
The Latakia Sanjak (سنجق اللاذقية) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria.
Liwa (Arabic)
Liwa (لواء,, "ensign" or "banner") has developed various meanings in Arabic. Sanjak and Liwa (Arabic) are types of administrative division.
Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; al-intidāb al-faransīalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; 1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning Syria and Lebanon.
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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg.
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Ministry of home affairs
The ministry of home affairs (also called ministry of internal affairs or ministry of interior) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement.
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Mintaqah
Minṭaqah (plural مَنَاطِق) is a term used for a first-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia and Chad and for a second-level administrative division in several other Arab countries. Sanjak and Mintaqah are types of administrative division.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Montenegro
Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
Morea Eyalet
The Eyalet of the Morea (translit) was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire, centred on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
The Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (1861–1918, translit) was one of the Ottoman Empire's subdivisions following the Tanzimat reform.
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Mutasarrif
Mutasarrif, mutesarrif, mutasarriff, or mutesarriff (متصرّف) was the title used in the Ottoman Empire and places like post-Ottoman Iraq for the governor of an administrative district in place of the usual sanjakbey. Sanjak and mutasarrif are subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish words and phrases.
Nablus Sanjak
The Nablus Sanjak (سنجق نابلس; Nablus Sancağı) was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917).
Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. Sanjak and nahiyah are former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire and types of administrative division.
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) was a joint British, French and Arab military administration over Levantine provinceswhich had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuriesbetween 1917 and 1920, set up on 23 October 1917 following the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and Arab Revolt of World War I.
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Okrug
An okrug is a type of administrative division in some Slavic-speaking states. Sanjak and okrug are former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and types of administrative division.
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Orhan
Orhan Ghazi (اورخان غازی; Orhan Gazi, also spelled Orkhan; died 1362) was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1323/4 to 1362.
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Orient-Institut Istanbul
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is a research institute of the Max Weber Foundation based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Ottoman Egypt
Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Ottoman Tunisia
Ottoman Tunisia, also known as the Regency of Tunis, refers to the Ottoman presence in Ifriqiya from the 16th to 19th centuries, when Tunis was officially integrated into the Ottoman Empire as the Eyalet of Tunis.
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Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish (Lisân-ı Osmânî,; Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE).
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Turkic language
Proto-Turkic is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Turkic languages that was spoken by the Proto-Turks before their divergence into the various Turkic peoples.
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Provinces of Turkey
Turkiye is divided into 81 provinces (il).
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Qadi
A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.
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Ramadanid Emirate
The Ramadanid Emirate (Modern Turkish: Ramazanoğulları Beyliği) was an autonomous administration and a de facto independent emirate that existed from 1352 to 1608 in Cilicia, taking over the rule of the region from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
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Regency of Algiers
The Regency of Algiers (lit, Eyalet-i Cezâyir-i Garp) was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1516 and 1830 established by the corsair brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din.
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Rumelia Eyalet
The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia (Eyālet-i Rūm-ėli), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591, was a first-level province (beylerbeylik or eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire encompassing most of the Balkans ("Rumelia").
Sandžak
Sandžak (Санџак) is a historical geo-political region located in the southwestern part of Serbia and the eastern part of Montenegro.
Sanjak of Alexandretta
The Sanjak of Alexandretta (Liwa' Al-Iskandarūna; İskenderun Sancağı; Sandjak d'Alexandrette) was a sanjak of the Mandate of Syria composed of two qadaas of the former Aleppo Vilayet (Alexandretta and Antioch, now İskenderun and Antakya).
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Sanjak of Novi Pazar
The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Новопазарски санџак; Sanxhaku i Pazarit të Ri; Yeni Pazar sancağı) was an Ottoman sanjak (second-level administrative unit) that was created in 1865.
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Sanjak-bey
Sanjak-bey, sanjaq-bey or -beg (سنجاق بك) was the title given in the Ottoman Empire to a bey (a high-ranking officer, but usually not a pasha) appointed to the military and administrative command of a district (sanjak, in Arabic liwa’), hence the equivalent Arabic title of amir liwa (أمير لواء) He was answerable to a superior wāli or another provincial governor.
Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Sipahi
The sipahi were professional cavalrymen deployed by the Seljuk Turks and later by the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and sipahi are Turkish words and phrases.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Syria vilayet
The Vilayet of Syria (ولاية سوريا.; Vilâyet-i Sûriye), also known as Vilayet of Damascus,.
Tanzimat
The (lit, see nizam) was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.
Timar
A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. Sanjak and timar are Turkish words and phrases and types of administrative division.
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Timariots
Timariot (or tımar holder; tımarlı in Turkish) was the name given to a Sipahi cavalryman in the Ottoman army.
Tripoli Eyalet
Tripoli Eyalet (Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām; طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
Van Eyalet
The Van Eyalet (Eyālet-i Vān) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Vilayet
A vilayet (lang, "province"), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. Sanjak and vilayet are former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire and types of administrative division.
Wali (administrative title)
Wāli, Wā'lī or vali (from والي Wālī) is an administrative title that was used in the Muslim world (including the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and the Ottoman Empire) to designate governors of administrative divisions.
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Würzburg
Würzburg (Main-Franconian: Wörtzburch) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the third-largest city in Franconia located in the north of Bavaria.
Webster's New World Dictionary
Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language is an American dictionary published first in 1951 and since 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Yemen Eyalet
The Yemen Eyalet (إيالة اليمن; Eyālet-i Yemen) was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire.
See also
Former types of subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire
- Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire
- Agaluk
- Arpalik
- Bajrak
- Bucak (administrative unit)
- Eyalet
- Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire
- Kadiluk
- Kaza
- Millet (Ottoman Empire)
- Mutasarrif
- Nahiyah
- Occupation of Western Armenia
- Ottoman Ukraine
- Raya (country subdivision)
- Rumelia
- Sanjak
- Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire
- Vagenetia
- Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire
- Vilayet
- Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire
- Voivodeship
- Yedisan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak
Also known as Liva (sanjak), Liwa', Sanajiq, Sandjak, Sanjack, Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire, Sanjaks, Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire, Sanjaq, Sanjuk, Sançak, Sinjaq.
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