eyalet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of eyalet
1850–55; < Turkish eyalet < Arabic iyālat
Example Sentences
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“Not a gubernia, an eyalet or a crown land, not a part of foreign empires, not a ‘part of the land,’ not a union republic.
From New York Times
Before the reconstitution of the provinces as vilayets it was the official title of the principal eyalet of Asia Minor, and was also used more generally to include all the peninsular provinces over which the beylerbey of Anadoli, whose seat was at Kutaiah, had the same paramount military jurisdiction which the beylerbey of “Rumili” enjoyed in the peninsular provinces of Europe.
From Project Gutenberg
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