sanjak

  1. Noun.  An administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) The governor of a sanjak; a sanjakbeg. (defdate, 16th-19th c.) .

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