Kaymakam

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Binbashi Ismet Pasha, who later became a Kaymakam, after returning from Yemen.

Kaymakam, also known by

Republic of Turkey, Kuwait, Iraq, and Lebanon
.

Names

The title has been

Arabic
qāʾim maqām (قَائِم مَقَام‎‎), meaning "stand in" or "deputy".

History

Ottoman Empire

The kaymakam in Constantinople with his attendants, anonymous Greek painter, ca. 1809

In the

Shaykh al-Islam.[2]

The modernization and Westernization reforms instituted in the 19th century added new meanings to the term. With the establishment of the regular

Tanzimat reforms soon after saw the use of kaymakam for the governor of a sanjak (second-level province), while after the establishment of the vilayet system in 1864, a kaymakam became the governor of a kaza (third-level province). The system was retained by modern Turkey, where a sub-province (ilçe after the 1920s) is still headed by a kaymakam.[2]

Moldavian and Wallachian (Romanian) history

The term Caimacam has a specific meaning in

Phanariote rule, as well as the delegates of the Oltenia Ban in Craiova after the main office was moved to Bucharest
during the same period (1761).

In this context, the word may be spelled caimacam, while the Romanian term for the office is căimăcămie.

Persian Gulf history

Qatar history

In the Persian Gulf, four

Bahrein
).

Kuwait history

Similarly, three ruling native hakims of the later emirate of Kuwait, were also Kaymakam of a

kazas
in the same province, 1871 till a British protectorate, also on 3 November 1914.

Egyptian history

In

nahiye, with particular responsibility for the maintenance of the irrigation system.[2]

Kaymakams as a military rank

The rank is attested in use with a British officer commanding the Equatorial Battalion in East Africa, 1918: Kaimakam R F White DSO who was an officer of the Essex Regiment.[3] In the 1947 Birthday Honours, a recipient of an MBE, Diran Bodossian, is referred to as "Assistant Paymaster Kaimakam" of the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force. [4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "kaimakam, n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  2. ^
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  3. ^ WO 100/410 folio 283 - medal roll for "East Africa 1918" clasp to Africa General Service Medal, The National Archives, Kew
  4. ^ "Supplement" (PDF). The London Gazette. 12 June 1947. Retrieved 25 December 2022.

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