Sanjak

Sanjaks (/ˈsændʒæk/; Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق; Modern Turkish: Sancak, pronounced [sanˈdʒak]) were administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak, and the variant spellings sandjak, sanjaq and sinjaq, are English or French transliterations of the Turkish word sancak, meaning "district", "banner" or "flag". Sanjaks were also called by the Arabic word for banner or flag: لواء liwa (Liwā or Liwā’).

This article is about the administrative territorial entity. For the region in Serbia and Montenegro, see Sandžak. For the village in Iran, see Sanjaq, Iran.
Not to be confused with Saint-Jacques (disambiguation).
State organisation of
the Ottoman Empire
Classic period
Constitutional period

Ottoman provinces (eyalets, later vilayets) were divided into sanjaks (also called livas) governed by sanjakbeys (also called Mutesarriff) and were further subdivided into timars (fiefs held by timariots), kadiluks (the area of responsibility of a judge, or Kadı) and zeamets (also ziam; larger timars).

In 1920s sanjaks was renamed to provinces (Turkish: il).

The unofficial, geo-cultural region of Sandžak in Serbia and Montenegro derives its name from the former Ottoman Sanjak of Novi Pazar.

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