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- noun Plural form of
mutessarif .
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Examples
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Each vilayet is divided into sanjaks or districts, and these are again subdivided into communal groups and communes, presided over respectively by officers known as mutessarifs, kaimakams, mudirs, and mukhtars.
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Scarcely had the message arrived ere the mutessarifs secretary followed it, lamenting that we must go.
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them
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_mutessarifs_ and _kaimakams_; but the system of municipal government, left untouched by the Turks, descends from primitive times.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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