vilayet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vilayet
1865–70; < Turkish < Arabic wilāyah
Example Sentences
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Reports from the Vilayet were confusing and tumultuous.
From The New Yorker
Because his father and uncles, selling tobacco across the region, depended on inter-urban commerce to make a living, they frequently travelled on the Baghdad Railway, commuting between the main cities of the Vilayet of Aleppo, a province of the Ottoman Empire.
From The New Yorker
The Ottoman Empire collapsed; civil war broke out; General Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish National Movement, fought a prolonged war for independence against Armenian and French forces in the countryside of the Vilayet.
From The New Yorker
The IS infrastructure in the kingdom calls itself the Nejd Vilayet of the Caliphate.
From US News
IS claims it has already established an underground infrastructure in what it calls the "vilayet of the Nejd."
From US News
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