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  • With the map as it had been before the war of 1912, there was one little strip of territory, called the Sanjak of Novibazar, between

    The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe Louis Paul B��n��zet 1919

  • [FN#291] "Sanjak," Turk. = flag, banner, and here used (as in vulg.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • He said that two projects included Matchil and Sanjak are under construction at an estimated cost of Rs 16.44 crore.

    1000 micro Hydel electric projects are being executed by the Army in Kashmir under operation goodwil 2009

  • He created a lesbian character, Sanjak, decades before cartoons like "Doonesbury" and "For Better or for Worse" addressed homosexuality.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • “Projects for the Settlement of Jews in the Sanjak of Acre, 1902 – 1903.”

    Olga Belkind-Hankin. 2009

  • “Sanájik” Plur. of Sanjak (Turk.) = a banner, also applied to the bearer (ensign or cornet) and to a military rank mostly corresponding with Bey or Colonel.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • According to the best authorities (no Christian being allowed to see them) the cloak given to the bard by Mohammed is still preserved together with the Khirkah or Sanjak Sherif

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • You can think "San Jack" if you like; me, I think Sanjak of Novi Pazar scroll down to the section on Lord Blatherard Osmo, and cf. my puckish citation in the last comment here; if you want boring old history, it's summarized here.

    languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS. 2005

  • A NY Times story by Nicholas Wood describes efforts to "restore" the "Bosnian language" to the Serbian region of Novi Pazar (1911 Britannica article), known in Serbo-Croatian (to use the accurate name of the language everyone in the region speaks) as the Sandžak and traditionally in English as the Sanjak (which is how you pronounce the Serbo-Croatian word).

    languagehat.com: "BOSNIAN" IN NOVI PAZAR. 2005

  • Count Alois Aehrenthal (Austrian foreign minister since Oct. 1906) announced the intention of the Austrian government to build a railway through the Sanjak of Novi Bazar toward Saloniki.

    1908, Jan. 27 2001

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