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Example sentences for "vilayet"

Lexicographically close words:
viij; viis; viking; vil; vilain; vilayets; vild; vilde; vile; vilely
  1. Ancyra) in Asia, capital of the vilayet of the same name, situated upon a steep, rocky hill, which rises 500 ft.

  2. A Turkish vilayet in north-central Asia Minor, which includes most of the ancient Galatia.

  3. Laodicea), the chief town of a sanjak in the Beirut vilayet of Syria, situated on the coast, opposite the island of Cyprus.

  4. Till 1881 it was the seat of a pasha in the vilayet of Jannina; it is now the capital of the Greek province and the seat of a nomarch.

  5. KARS, a fortified town of Russian Transcaucasia, in the province of Kars, formerly at the head of a sanjak in the Turkish vilayet of Erzerum.

  6. A vilayet of Asia Minor which includes Paphlagonia and parts of Pontus and Galatia.

  7. Laranda, a name still used by the Christian inhabitants), a town in the Konia vilayet of Asia Minor, situated in the plain north of Mount Taurus.

  8. The vilayet is now traversed by the Anatolian railway, and contains the railhead of the Ottoman line from Smyrna.

  9. In the middle ages the vilayet formed part of the Servian Empire, its northern districts are still known to the Serbs as Old Servia (Stara Srbiya).

  10. Orders were then immediately sent to different parts of the vilayet for enlisting irregulars or Bashi‐bazouks.

  11. At the end of a month, Midhat Pasha received a telegram from the Palace, which nominated him Governor‐General of the vilayet of Syria.

  12. A petroleum spring discovered in the vilayet was immediately utilised for public purposes.

  13. Abdul Hamid then informed Midhat that he declined to accept his resignation, that he wished to see him continue his services to the State, and that he appointed him Governor‐General of the vilayet of Smyrna.

  14. Ever since my arrival, I have done all in my power to bring some order into the affairs of the vilayet and to avoid the dangers I have detailed above.

  15. These conditions were accepted by the people of Koweit, and their territory became a sandjak of the vilayet of Bagdad.

  16. The success which has attended Your Highness in the vilayet of Syria has been reported to His Majesty by Sir Henry Layard, who has just returned from his travels in Syria.

  17. In 1863, Midhat Pasha, Governor of the Danubian Vilayet (i.

  18. In 1867 they were introduced in the Vilayet of the Danube by the then Governor-General, Midhat Pasha.

  19. In July an order came to deport to the interior all the Armenians in the Vilayet of Trebizond.

  20. They had been unable even yet to learn their destination, but it is probable that they are being sent to the Vilayet of Konia.

  21. Those who have passed through our town were going to the Vilayet of Konia; there too there are deserts.

  22. Storms are rare on Vilayet at this time of year.

  23. But there is no horse west of Vilayet that can distance Irem for long.

  24. According to the French Yellow Book, the total population of the vilayet included 78·05 per cent.

  25. Before the war a French company of the same type as the one above mentioned, the Syndicate of Ak-Dagh, had obtained the right to explore the layers of zinc and argentiferous lead in the vilayet of Angora.

  26. Similar incidents—such as mutinous soldiers, attacks against the Turks, threats to families of mobilised Ottomans—occurred in the vilayet of Angora.

  27. In the vilayet of Van, when the Russians, reinforced by Armenian volunteers, started an offensive, some Armenian peasants gathered together and prepared to attack the Ottoman officials and the gendarmerie.

  28. The vilayet of Van, the town of Hassankaleh, and numerous other places were deluged with blood, and polluted with unbridled lust.

  29. In the vilayet of Koniah, in Asia Minor, is a breed of goats producing a brownish colored mohair.

  30. Present history traces the Angora goat to the vilayet of Angora, in Asia Minor, and to the country immediately surrounding this vilayet.

  31. Since that date it has formed the vilayet of Adana (q.

  32. Every vilayet had been bought with money at Constantinople, and the purchasing Valy was making what fortune he could during his term of office out of those he was given to administer.

  33. My father, as you know, was missionary in the Vilayet of Trebizond many years ago.

  34. Troubles threaten in the Vilayet of Trebizond, where is an American Mission.

  35. His fleets of purple-sailed war galleys had made Vilayet an Hyrkanian lake.

  36. The fisherman was typical of his race, that strange people whose origin is lost in the gray dawn of the past, and who have dwelt in their rude fishing huts along the southern shore of the Sea of Vilayet since time immemorial.

  37. Besides, the buccaneers who roamed Vilayet ceaselessly would have learned of any work going on on such a stupendous scale, and would have informed the kozaks.

  38. Odrin), the capital of the vilayet of Adrianople, Turkey in Europe; 137 m.

  39. Black Sea and the vilayet of Constantinople, S.

  40. The vilayet suffered severely during the Russian occupation of 1878, when, apart from the natural dislocation of commerce, many of the Moslem cultivators emigrated to Asia Minor, to be free from their alien rulers.

  41. Lycum), chief town of a sanjak of the Aidin vilayet of Asia Minor, altitude 1167 ft.

  42. Goods destined for this Vilayet usually come via Samsun, which is about 372 miles from Harput.

  43. There are nearly 3,000 villages in the Vilayet but no large cities.

  44. In the portion of the Kossovo vilayet included in Macedonia are Kalkandelen (Slav.

  45. In modern Macedonia are included the vilayet of Salonica (Turk.

  46. Selanik), the eastern and greater portion of the vilayet of Monastir (sanjaks of Monastir, Servia [Turk.

  47. The wealthiest and most influential personage in the capital and the vilayet is the nakib, or marshal of the nobility (i.

  48. An officer told me that in the Vilayet of Bitlis the authorities collected the Armenians in barns full of straw (or chaff), piling up straw in front of the door and setting it on fire, so that the Armenians inside perished in the smoke.

  49. These two telegraphed to the Vilayet that their consciences would not permit them to do such work, and that they resigned their posts.

  50. Whilst I was Kaimakâm of the district of Kiakhta, in the Vilayet of Kharpout, I was acquainted with an Armenian Notable of that place, named Barsoum Agha.

  51. The vilayet Kharput was founded in 1888, being the result of a provincial rearrangement, designed to ensure better control over the disturbed districts of Kurdistan.

  52. The chief city of the vilayet is its capital, Bagdad.

  53. The first reduction in size occurred in 1857, when some of the western portion of the vilayet was added to the newly created sanjak of Zor.

  54. It is one of the four great shrines of the Shi`ite Moslems in the vilayet of Bagdad.

  55. The original vilayet extended from Mardin on the N.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vilayet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.