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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.

Etymologies

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From Turkish sancak, literally ‘banner’.

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  • –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