Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Turkish administrative district of the second grade; a subdivision of a vilayet or eyalet, governed by an officer formerly styled sanjak-bey (or -beg): now often styled mutessariflik, the governor being styled mutessarif or kaimakam.
- noun A sanjak-bey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Turkey A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
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Examples
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Beyond Novi-bazar the sanjak is practically solid Serb, Moslem, and Christian – no other race has any justifiable claim to it.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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A more specific look is then taken at the Ottoman 'sanjaks' or district provinces, with the Jerusalem sanjak "as a separate entity from the other regions of Syria [being] of tremendous importance for the emergence of Palestine about fifty years later."
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I can't post about Novi Pazar without quoting one of my favorite bits from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
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This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The first reduction in size occurred in 1857, when some of the western portion of the vilayet was added to the newly created sanjak of Zor.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The sanjak is rich in mineral wealth; silver mines are worked at Balia and boracite mines at
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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BULDUR, or BURDUR, chief town of a sanjak of the Konia vilayet in Asia
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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BALIKISRI (_Balukiser_), a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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May 1876, was mainly confined to the sanjak of Philippopolis.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Turkey, Austria sent troops into the sanjak of Novibazar.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word sanjak
–noun
(in Turkey) one of the administrative districts into which a vilayet is divided.
Origin:
1530–40; < Turk sancak district (lit., flag, standard)
May 20, 2009