Sanjak

Quick meaning: Sanjak is a noun meaning (politics) A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

Meaning

(politics) A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

More Meanings

1. (historical, inexact, obsolete) Synonym of sanjakbey: the officer supervising a sanjak.

Example Sentences

... 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.

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.

Word Forms

• sanjaks
• sanjac
• sancak

Synonyms for sanjak

Depending on context, synonyms include district, prefecture, county, sanjakate, mutasarrifate, sanjakbey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sancak, sangiac, sanjakbey, sanjakbeg, kaza, zanzack.

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