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sanjak
Sign in to saveAlso known as sandjak, sanjaq, sinjaq, sançak, sanjaks, sanjack, sanjuk, sanajiq
thumb|The Vilayets and Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire around 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- juridical person
- Part of
- vilayet
- Has part
- kaza
- Country
- Seljuk Empire
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire
- Commons category
- Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire
- position held by head of the organization
- sanjakbey
- native label
- sancak
- quantity
- 114
- end time
- 1921-01-20
- repealed by
- Turkish Constitution of 1921
- topic has template
- Template:Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire in Europe
- start time
- 1200-00-00
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- Names
- Ottoman Empire
- History
- Government
- Legacy
- Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
- Mandate of Syria
- Liwas
- Sandžak
- References
thumb|The Vilayets and Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire around 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian
A sanjak or sancak (, , "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans also sometimes called the sanjak a liva (, ) from the name's calque in Arabic and Persian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sanjak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.