sanjak

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Englisch - Türkisch
sancak
mutasarrıflık
governor of a sanjak
sancakbeyi
Englisch - Englisch
The governor of a sanjak; a sanjakbeg

the Duke enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe, with the losse of five or six thousand, with the Bashaw of Buda, and foure or five Zanzacks, with divers other great Commanders, two hundred Prisoners, and nine peeces of Ordnance.

An administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet

This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novy 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.

A district or a subvision of a vilayet
sanjak

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    Etymologie

    () From Turkish sancak, literally ‘banner’. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
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