sanjak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sanjak
First recorded in 1530–40, sanjak is from the Turkish word sancak district (literally, flag, standard)
Example Sentences
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It is not connected by a chaussee with any point outside its immediate province, but it has considerable importance as the administrative capital of a rich and isolated sanjak.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
I have confided my box of data, photographs, and plans, to the Reverend Wilbour Carew, an American missionary in the Trebizond sanjak.
From The Dark Star by William Dodge Stevens
It includes the great marshy districts of the lower Euphrates and Tigris, and of their joint stream, the Shatt el-Arab, and a sanjak on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
BASHKALA, the chief town of a sanjak of the vilayet of Van in Asiatic Turkey.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Novibazar, capital of the sanjak of the same name, was taken by the Servians on October 23rd.
From A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict by Logan Marshall
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