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1. A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
   1. historicalgovernmentAn Ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of Constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent.

      He desird him to leave a charge with the Chimacham his Deputy.

      1645, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-elianae..., volume iii, page 87

   2. historicalgovernmentAn Ottoman official who acted as beylerbey of Egypt between regular appointments.
   3. historicalgovernmentAn Ottoman official who acted as hospodar of Moldavia or Wallachia during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
   4. historicalgovernmentA lieutenant colonel in the Ottoman or early Turkish army, replaced by the rank of yarbay.
   5. historicalgovernmentSynonym of sanjakbey during the mid-19th century.

      Synonyms: sanjakbey during the mid-19th century

   6. historicalgovernmentAn Ottoman official who oversaw a kaza during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; similar positions in Ottoman successor states.
   7. governmentA local administrator in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Iraq, and Lebanon.