2) Hatay. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hatay, (hati´) (KEY) , formerly sanjak of Alexandretta, province (1990 pop. 1,002,252), 2,141 sq mi (5,545 sq km), S Turkey, including the cities of Antioch (now...

3) Sanjaksherif. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The flag of the prophet. (Turkish, sanjak, a standard.) 1...

4) 1908, Jan. 27. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1906) announced the intention of the Austrian government to build a railway through the Sanjak of Novi Bazar toward Saloniki. The purpose of this was to drive a wedge...

5) Novi Pazar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...captured by the Turks in 1456 and became an important trade center and the seat of the Turkish sanjak [district] of Novibazar (an older spelling). The sanjak of Novibazar...

6) Pasha of Three Tails (A). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...officers that we mean when we speak of a pasha in a general way. A pasha of one tail is a sanjak or lowest of provincial governors. (The word pasha is the Persian...

7) Iskenderun. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...was transferred (1920) to the French Syria League of Nations mandate as part of the sanjak of Alexandretta, but was returned to Turkey in 1939 (see Hatay)....

8) Izmayil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...First known in the 16th cent., the city was a Turkish fortress and capital of a Turkish sanjak. Russian forces took the city twice (1770, 1790) during the Russo-Turkish...

9) Banat. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...occupation of Serbia (1459), many Serbs emigrated to the Banat, which itself became a Turkish sanjak (province) around 1552. By the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718),...

10) Standards. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...wings displayed, and bearing in one of its talons a thunderbolt. 23 Turkish Standards. 24 (1) Sanjak Cherif (Standard of the Prophet), green silk. This is preserved...