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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SANJAK

San "jak, n. Etym: [Turk. sanjag.]

 

Defn: A district or a subvision of a vilayet. [Turkey ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sanjak

sanjak |ˈsandʒak | ▶noun (in the Ottoman Empire ) one of the several administrative districts into which a larger district (vilayet ) was divided. ORIGIN from Turkish sancak, literally ‘banner ’.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sanjak

sanjak |ˈsandʒak | ▶noun (in the Ottoman Empire ) one of the several administrative districts into which a larger district (vilayet ) was divided. ORIGIN from Turkish sancak, literally ‘banner ’.