vilayet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vilayet
1865–70; < Turkish < Arabic wilāyah
Example Sentences
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The council of the vilayet*; of Constantinople appointed a commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is included in the vilayet of Van, in which, according to the latest estimates, there are 80,000 Syrian Christians.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
In the vilayet of Van it is estimated by Colonel Severs Bell that the Christians outnumber the Moslems by 80,000, the entire population being estimated at 340,000.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
GUMULJINA, or Gumurdjina, a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The closing of the medical fields threw our entire force into the general relief of the vilayet of Harpoot, which the relieving missionaries had well named their "bottomless pit."
From A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work by Barton, Clara
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