mukhtar
Sign in to saveThe mukhtar (; ; ) was a civilian administrator, a type of lesser mayor, in villages and neighbourhoods in the Ottoman Empire. The office was retained in the local administration of the Republic of Turkey as a village or neighbourhood mayor. It also exists in modern Lebanon as an elected local official, and in Gaza as a honorific for clan elders.
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The mukhtar (; ; ) was a civilian administrator, a type of lesser mayor, in villages and neighbourhoods in the Ottoman Empire. The office was retained in the local administration of the Republic of Turkey as a village or neighbourhood mayor. It also exists in modern Lebanon as an elected local official, and in Gaza as a honorific for clan elders.
==Ottoman Empire==
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