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  1. vilayetnoun

    One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

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  1. Vilayet

    A vilayet (Ottoman Turkish: ولایت, "province"), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated by the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856. The Danube Vilayet had been specially formed in 1864 as an experiment under the leading reformer Midhat Pasha. The Vilayet Law expanded its use, but it was not until 1884 that it was applied to all of the empire's provinces. Writing for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1911, Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard claimed that the reform had intended to provide the provinces with greater amounts of local self-government but in fact had the effect of centralizing more power with the sultan and local Muslims at the expense of other communities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vilayetnoun

    one of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet

  2. Etymology: [Turk., from Ar. wilyah.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vilayet

    vil-a-yet′, n. the name given to the great provinces into which the Ottoman empire is divided.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vilayet in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vilayet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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