Sanjak-bey

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Sanjak-bey, Sanjaq-bey or -beg was the Ottoman Turkish title of the Bey (high officer, but usually not a Pasha) in military and administrative command of a sanjak (usually a district, answerable to a Vali or other provincial governor; in a few cases himself a governor, directly answering to Istanbul) of the Ottoman empire.