Kaza
A kaza (
Former use
Ottoman Empire
In the Ottoman Empire, a kaza was originally equivalent to the
With the first round of
Mandatory Palestine
The
Syria
Syria used kazas, qadas, etc. as its second-level administrative division after independence but later[when?] renamed them mintaqahs.
Turkey
The
Current use
Kaza, qada, etc. is also used to refer to the following:
- Districts of Iraq (second-level, below the governorates)
- Districts of Lebanon (second-level, below the governorates)
- Subdistricts of Israel(second-level, below the districts, in Arabic)
- Subdistricts of Jordan (third-level, below the governorates and the districts)
See also
Notes
- ^ Translations into the languages used by the other ethnicities of the Ottoman Empire,[1] other than those already listed above:
- Ladino: kaza[1]
- Armenian: աւան (awan, a calque meaning "borough")[1]
- Bulgarian: околия (okoliya, a calque meaning "district")[1] and кааза̀ (kaazà)
- French: casa
- Greek: υποδιοίκησις (ypodioíkisis, a calque meaning "subprefecture"), δήμος (dímos, a calque meaning "people" or "district"),[1] and καζάς (kazás)
References
- ^ Martin Luther University) // CITED: p. 41-44 (PDF p. 43-46/338).
- ISBN 9780521666480
- ISBN 9781139445917
- ^ Note, however, that this name is often applied to the nahiye level of the Ottoman administation.
- ^ ISBN 9780521892230
- ^ ISBN 9780810875791
- ^ ISBN 9780203481325
- ISBN 9780810875791