Mutessarifat

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mutessarifat \Mu*tes`sa*ri*fat"\, n. [Turk. & Ar. mute[,c]arifah
     office of a mutessarif.]
     In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Mutic