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/ˈsandʒak/ · noun
(politics) A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire..
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.
... 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.
Use sanjak when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sanjak means (politics) A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire..
Common synonyms include district, prefecture, county, sanjakship.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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