The entire monarchy of the Turk is governed by one lord, the others are his servants; and, dividing his kingdom into
sanjaks, he sends there different administrators, and shifts and changes them as he chooses.
Although the annexation has divided communities and detached many from their extended kin, sanjaks residents have maintained religious, linguistic, business, and family ties with people in Syria, often through frequent and reciprocated visits across the border.
Formerly called the Sanjak of Alexandretta, the province was annexed to Turkey from French Mandate Syria in 1939, following a plebiscite that was state-managed from Turkeys capital, Ankara.
(27) Berna Pekesen, "The Exodus of Armenians from the Sanjak of Alexandratta in the 1930s," in Turkey beyond Nationalism: Towards Post-Nationalist Identities, ed.
During the entire span of this competition, according to Ozoglu, "The beys of frontier regions enjoyed greater autonomy than the beys who ruled sanjaks closer to the Ottoman center.
The Kurds' relationship with the Ottoman state, which was structured on the very idea of autonomy, was being threatened as Ottoman centralization attempts began to disturb the existing sanjak (canton) structure.
The Empire was based on military principles, and it was divided to states with their governors called "Beylerbeyi", and to districts "
Sanjaks" with their chiefs called "Sanjakbey" (KOPRULU, 1948) Through the accomplishment of their duties, these civilian authorities made use of "dirlik" lands which were given to military administrative class under their disposal by Sultan.
In order to support it, Akcam approvingly quotes from Talat Pasha's telegram of August 29, 1915, sent to various provinces and sanjaks (pp.
The telegram sent from the sanjak of Nigde, for example, actually states that "an Armenian population of 221 persons, consisting of Catholics and Protestants," remained within the sanjak, (25) while the telegram sent from the sanjak of Eskisehir states that "the number of Armenians required to be removed [from the sanjak] amounted to 7,000" and that all of these were dispatched.
The new reformation was established in a form of a pyramid structure extending from Istanbul--center to Ottoman bureaucracy, to the provinces and
sanjaks, and from these locations back to the capital.
Palestine, under late Ottoman rule, known as "Southern Syria" was not one administrative unit, but rather was divided between two or three administrative units (
sanjaks).
sanjak) of the province of Damascus, have been published in Bakhit 1982b; Bakhit and Hamud 1989 and 1991.