vilayet
/vee-lah-yet/US // ˌvi lɑˈyɛt //UK // (vɪˈlɑːjɛt) //
维拉耶特,维拉伊特,维拉叶
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a province or main administrative division of Turkey.
Examples
His fleets of purple-sailed war galleys had made Vilayet an Hyrkanian lake.
There are nearly 3,000 villages in the Vilayet but no large cities.
The capital of the vilayet, also called Basra, is situated in 47 34′ E. long.
Another curious provisional is one for Gumuldjina (Fig. 337) in the vilayet of Adrianople.
Sanjak, san′jak, n. an administrative subdivision of a Turkish vilayet or eyalet.
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