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unusual facts about Sanjak


Music of Montenegro

In traditional music, different styles can be noticed in the Gulf of Kotor area, Old Montenegro and Sanjak regions.


Aidin Vilayet

# The Sanjak of Sarukhan, subdivided into the kazas of Manisa, Alashehir, Kula, Ak Hissar, Salykhly (Salihli), Gordiz, Demirji, Eshme, Kyrkaghach, Soma, and Kassaba.

Akhisar

This high level of economical activity made Akhisar the most important subdistrict within the sanjak of Saruhan.

Al-Khasawneh

At the time of the Ottoman Empire, Northern Jordan was a sanjak (administrative division) of the town of Ajloun.

Ammuqa

In 1517, Ammuqa was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and by 1596 it was under the administration of the nahiyah ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Sanjak Safad, with a population of 391.

Cüneyt Bey of Aydın

But his beylik was incorporated into Ottoman realm, and he was appointed as the sanjak bey (governor) of Nikopol, today in Bulgaria.

Morea Eyalet

Upon its conquest, the peninsula was made a sanjak of the Rumelia Eyalet, with its capital first at Corinth (Turk. Kordos or Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Mezistre or Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Nova Kasaba

The first mention of this town can be traced back to the year of 1641, when a Kara Musa Pasha, Turkish Grand Vizier, asked for a permission to build a mosque and Han (Caravanserai) in the Bosnian Sanjak Municipality, Birač district in the vicinity of the Gojković village.

Piyale Pasha

He graduated from the Enderun with the title of Kapıcıbaşı and was appointed Sanjak Bey (Province Governor) of Gallipoli.

Sanjak of Gelibolu

The Sanjak of Gelibolu or Gallipoli (Ottoman Turkish: Sancak-i/Liva-i Gelibolu) was a second-level Ottoman province (sanjak or liva) encompassing the Gallipoli Peninsula and a portion of southern Thrace.

Sanjak of Niš

The largest part of Sanjak of Niš was annexed by the Principality of Serbia after Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), while smaller part and the whole Sanjak of Sofia were annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria.

Sanjak of Prizren

The majority of the territory that once belonged to the Sanjak of Prizren now belongs to Kosovo or Serbia (Prizren, Hoča, and Žežna (20 km south-east of Novi Pazar) and smaller parts now belong to Montenegro (Bihor, and Trgovište (a settlement near Rožaje)).

Sanjak of Sakız

A possession of the Genoese Maona company since 1346, Chios (and its attendant islets of Psara and Oinousses) was conquered without resistance by the Ottoman Empire in 1566, as a recompense for the failure to capture Malta the previous year, and annexed as a sanjak of the Eyalet of the Archipelago.

Sanjak of Sofia

After adoption of the decisions of Berlin Congress on 1 July 1878 the Sanjak of Sofia was merged with Northern Bulgaria into Principality of Bulgaria, a de facto independent vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

Şehzade Ahmet

Although he was initially refused on the ground that Rumeli sanjaks were not offered to princes, with the support of the vassal Crimean khan Meñli I Giray (who was his father-in-law), he was able to receive the sanjak of Semendire (modern Smederevo in Serbia), which, although it was technically in Rumeli, was quite far from Istanbul nevertheless.

Sliven

Known as "İslimye" by the Turks, during Ottoman rule it was a sanjak centre in first Rumelia eyalet, then Silistre (Özi) eyalet, Edirne vilayet, finally being for a short period a centre of a department in the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia before its inclusion in the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885.


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