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Definition of SANJAK

Sanjak
Sanjak San"jak, n. [Turk. sanj[=a]g.] A district or a subvision of a vilayet. [Turkey]

Meaning of SANJAK from wikipedia

- A sanjak (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق, sancak, "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans also sometimes called the...
- The Sanjak of Alexandretta (Arabic: لواء الإسكندرونة, romanized: Liwa' Al-Iskandarūna; Turkish: İskenderun Sancağı; French: Sandjak d'Alexandrette) was...
- Latakia Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق اللاذقية) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria. The city of Latakia was the Sanjak's capital...
- the Sanjak's capital. It was bordered by the Hauran Sanjak to the south, Hama Sanjak to the north, and Beirut Vilayet to the west. Damascus Sanjak had...
- Sanjak-bey, sanjaq-bey or -beg (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق بك, lit. 'lord of the standard') was the title given in the Ottoman Empire to a bey (a high-ranking...
- sanjaks: Sanjak of Viçitrina, Sanjak of Kruševac and Sanjak of Smederevo. At the beginning of the First Balkan War in 1912, the territory of Sanjak of...
- The Hauran Sanjak (Turkish: Havrân Sancağı, Arabic: سنجق حوران) was a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire, spanning the southern areas of Ottoman Syria, located...
- the Sanjak of Alexandretta was occupied by France at the end of the First World War and constituted part of the French Mandate of Syria. The Sanjak of...
- Sanjak of Shahrizor (Kurdish: سەنجەقی شارەزوور, Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق شهرزور), previously the Sanjak of Baban, later briefly renamed to the Sanjak of...
- Vilayet of Herzegovina: sanjaks of Mostar, Gacko. Salonica Vilayet: sanjaks of Salonica, Serres, Drama. Janina Vilayet: sanjaks of Ioannina, Tirhala, Ohrid...