Crossword-Solution: EYALET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eyalet | n. | Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Now called {/vilayet/}. | 1 answer |
| province of Ottoman Empire | 1 answer |
| TURKISH province | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EYALET (4)
Haidar Shehab, third of the line, inflicted a notable defeat on the pasha of Saida (capital of an Ottoman eyalet since 1688) and the Yemenite Druses at Ain Dara, near Zahleh, in 1711, and proceeded to consolidate Shehab power, breaking up the old feudal society and substituting for the sheikhs _mukatajis_ (tax-contractors), who had penal jurisdiction.
Before the reconstitution of the provinces as _vilayets_ it was the official title of the principal _eyalet_ of Asia Minor, and was also used more generally to include all the peninsular provinces over which the beylerbey of Anadoli, whose seat was at Kutaiah, had the same paramount military jurisdiction which the beylerbey of "Rumili" enjoyed in the peninsular provinces of Europe.
EYALET ([=i]´a-let), a former administrative division of the Turkish Empire, subdivided into sanjaks or provinces, and kazas or districts.
Before the present provincial division was made (1864), Karamania was the eyalet of which Konia was the capital, and it did not extend to the sea, the whole littoral from Adalia eastward being under the pasha of Adana.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).