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

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

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

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-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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Karasi Sanjak, (Turkish: Karesi Sancağı; c. 1341–1922) was one of the first sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire established around 1341 and disestablished after...

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

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...

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

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

The Sanjak of Suğla was a second-level Ottoman province (sanjak or liva) encompassing the region around Smyrna (modern Izmir) and to its south, around...

of the Treaty of Berlin (1878), the Sanjak of İslimye, most of the Sanjak of Filibe and a small part of the Sanjak of Edirne (the Kızılağaç kaza and Monastır...

The Sanjak of Herzegovina (Turkish: Hersek Sancağı; Serbo-Croatian: Hercegovački sandžak) was an Ottoman administrative unit established in 1470. The seat...

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 Bosnia (central province), Sanjak of Herzegovina, Sanjak of Viçitrina, Sanjak of Prizren, Sanjak of Klis, Sanjak of Krka, and Sanjak of Pakrac...

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...

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...

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

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 Alexandretta was occupied by France at the end of the First World War and constituted part of the French Mandate of Syria. The Sanjak of...

formed part of the sanjaks of Gallipoli or Mytilene under the Eyalet of the Archipelago, but was constituted as a separate sanjak in the reforms of the...