sanjak

Updated: June 29, 2025

At the moment when this happened he was holding a council of war in the trenches with Piali, a Sanjak, and the principal Turkish engineer. The same shot which wounded Dragut killed the Sanjak on the spot.

E. Hamilton Currey - Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean

"Brink of Suicide" writes: Can you, will you, tell me what is the Sanjak of Novi Bazar? Answer. The Sanjak of Novi Bazar is bounded on the north by its northern frontier, cold and cheerless, and covered during the winter with deep snow. The east of the Sanjak occupies a more easterly position. Here the sun rises at first slowly, but gathering speed as it goes.

Stephen Leacock - Frenzied Fiction

Nikola Pavlovitch started yarning almost at once, and we never had a dull moment. He was a comitaj once, in the old days when Turkey owned Macedonia and the Sanjak. He said that nearly all comitaj were men of education and intelligence.

Cora Gordon - The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

The people here who foretell the future in sheep's bladebones and fowls' breastbones have foretold nothing but blood for weeks. ... It is said that by the end of four months Austria will occupy the Sanjak as far as Mitrovitza." "To save us," say the Albanians, "if the Serbs are allowed to have it, it will at once be Russian. We should be lost, and our religion crushed.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

And soon we were in the outskirts of Novi Bazar, the most ordinary town of the Sanjak, combining the dull parts of Plevlie with the dull parts of Ipek. There was a stream down the middle of the road, in which some of the inhabitants were washing, while one sat on his haunches holding up a small looking-glass with one hand and shaving himself. We bustled off to the mayor's office.

Cora Gordon - The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

"The Albanians are numerically far superior to the Serbians, who are not numerous in Kosovopolje and the Sanjak of Novibazar.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

They had been promised assistance, and had expected this fight to be followed at once by war. The whole district was strongly anti-Petrovitch, and in close touch with Serbia. Veshovitch, the frontier commandant, even said when I suggested that a declaration of war might be followed by the re-occupation of the Sanjak by Austria, and a possible attack on Montenegro: "What then?

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

This is not the black mountain where the last dregs of old Serbian aristocracy defied the Turk, this is still the Sanjak, three years ago Turkish, and with pleasant pasturages spreading on either hand. At last we came up over Plevlie.

Cora Gordon - The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

Austria was already withdrawing the officers' families from the Sanjak, and complete evacuation would follow. She dropped also the Uvatz-Mitrovitza railway scheme which the Young Turks seemed not over-willing to permit.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Especially a number of schoolmasters assembled, all of whom ran propaganda schools in the district; I thus learnt much of what was going on. The schoolmasters were nearly all Montenegrins and regarded the Sanjak as "their claim."

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle