- Vilayet - Wikipedia
The Ottoman Turkish vilayet (ولایت) was a loanword borrowed from Arabic wilāya (وِلَايَة), an abstract noun formed from the verb waliya (وَلِيَ, "to administer")
- VILAYET Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of VILAYET is one of the chief administrative divisions of Turkey having as head a vali who represents the government and is assisted by an elective council and being subdivided into cazas
- VILAYET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
The Mosul Vilayet was part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of World War I, when it was occupied by Britain Previously Kuwait had come under the administration of the Ottoman vilayet, or administrative province, of Basra
- Vilayet: Definition, Examples Quiz | UltimateLexicon. com
The term vilayet is still in use today in some Turkish-speaking regions to refer to provinces Vilayets varied significantly in size and population, often encompassing a diverse collection of ethnic and religious communities
- VILAYET definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
vilayet in American English (ˌvilɑːˈjet) noun a province or main administrative division of Turkey
- VILAYET Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
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
- Vilayet - Wikiwand
For other administrative divisions in Muslim countries using variants of the word, see wilayah A vilayet (Ottoman Turkish: ولایت, "province"; [vi laː jet]), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire
- Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia
In English, Ottoman subdivisions are seldom known by myriad Turkish terms (vilayet, eyalet, beylerbeylik, sancak, nahiye, kaza, etc ) which are often eschewed in favour of the English-language denomination (e g "province", "county", or "district") that is perceived to be the closest to the Turkish original [7]
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