A sanjak (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق, sancak, "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans also sometimes called the...

Sanjak-bey, sanjaq-bey or -beg (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق بك) (lit. 'lord of the standard') was the title given in the Ottoman Empire to a bey (a high-ranking...

sanjaks: Sanjak of Viçitrina, Sanjak of Kruševac and Sanjak of Smederevo. At the beginning of the First Balkan War in 1912, the territory of Sanjak of...

Sanjak of Bosnia (Turkish: Bosna Sancağı, Serbo-Croatian: Bosanski sandžak / Босански санџак) was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire established...

The Sanjak of Alexandretta (Arabic: لواء الإسكندرونة, romanized: Liwa' Al-Iskandarūna; Turkish: İskenderun Sancağı; French: Sandjak d'Alexandrette) was...

The Urfa Sanjak (Turkish: Urfa Sancağı), previously known as Sanjak of Birejik, was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day...

The Tripoli Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق طرابلس الشام) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Lebanon and Syria. The city of Tripoli...

The Sanjak of Smederevo (Turkish: Semendire Sancağı; Serbian: Смедеревски санџак, romanized: Smederevski sandžak), also known in historiography as the...

Vilayet of Herzegovina: sanjaks of Mostar, Gacko. Salonica Vilayet: sanjaks of Salonica, Serres, Drama. Janina Vilayet: sanjaks of Ioannina, Tirhala, Ohrid...

The Sanjak of Acre (Arabic: سنجق عكا; Turkish: Akka Sancağı), often referred as Late Ottoman Galilee, was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire,...

Sanjak of Shahrizor (Kurdish: سەنجەقی شارەزوور, Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق شهرزور), previously the Sanjak of Baban, later briefly renamed to the Sanjak of...

The sanjak of Najd (Arabic: لواء نجد) was a sanjak (second-level province) of the Ottoman Empire. The name is considered misleading, as it covered the...

Sanjak of Damascus (دمشق) The Sanjak of Tripoli (طرابلس) The Sanjak of Acre (عكا) The Sanjak of Safad (صفد) The Sanjak of Nablus (نابلس) The Sanjak of...

Latakia Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق اللاذقية) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria. The city of Latakia was the Sanjak's capital...

the Sanjak's capital. It was bordered by the Hauran Sanjak to the south, Hama Sanjak to the north, and Beirut Vilayet to the west. Damascus Sanjak had...

The Aleppo Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق حلب) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria and Turkey. The city of Aleppo was the...

Homs was the Sanjak's capital. It had a population of 200,410 in 1914. The Sanjak of Homs shared same region with Sanjak of Hama and Sanjak of Salamiyah...

The Sanjak of Albania (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق آرونید, romanized: Sancâk-ı Arvanid, or آرونید سنجاغی, Arvanid sancâğı; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Arbërisë or...

Safed Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق صفد; Turkish: Safed Sancağı) was a sanjak (district) of Damascus Eyalet (Ottoman province of Damascus) in 1517–1660, after which...

The Sanjak of Mosul or Mosul Sanjak (Ottoman Turkish: موصل سنجاغى Musul Sancağı) was a sanjak in the Ottoman Empire with the city of Mosul, in present-day...

The Sanjak of Jerusalem (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق قدس, romanized: Sancâk-ı Kudüs; Arabic: سنجق القدس, romanized: Sanjaq al-Quds) was an Ottoman sanjak that...

Lajjun Sanjak was a sanjak of Damascus Eyalet from 1559 to the mid-18th century when it and the neighboring Ajlun Sanjak were combined to form the Jenin...

The Sanjak of Niš (Turkish: Niş Sancağı; Serbian: Нишки санџак, romanized: Niški Sandžak; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Nishit; Bulgarian: Нишки санджак, romanized:...

Hama Sanjak (Arabic: سنجق حماة) was a prefecture (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Syria. The city of Hama was the Sanjak's capital...

Mutasarrifate of Karak (Turkish: Kerek Mutasarrıflığı), also known as the Sanjak of Karak, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status established...

each province was appointed by the central government. Sanjaks (banners) were governed by sanjak-beys, selected from the high military ranks by the central...

The Sanjak of Ioannina (variously also Janina or Yanina, Ottoman Turkish: Sanjak-i Yanya) was a sanjak (second-level province) of the Ottoman Empire whose...

The Sanjak of Hamid (also Hamideli) was a second-level province (sanjak) of the Ottoman Empire. The sanjak comprised the region around the town of Isparta...

Sanjak of Bolu (Turkish: Liva-i Bolu, Bolu Sancağı) was a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire. In the 1864 Ottoman Empire administrative reorganization, Bolu...

The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Albanian: Sanxhaku i Pazarit të Ri; Serbo-Croatian: Novopazarski sandžak, Новопазарски санџак; Turkish: Yeni Pazar sancağı) was...