vakif

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To fill the void, more than 35,000 private foundations, known as vakif in Turkish, funded public-works projects and municipal services, from water systems and schools to hospitals, bridges and roads.

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Bayezid ended some of his father's unpopular modes of raising revenue, restoring the private and vakif (endowed) property he had confiscated.

c. 1481 2001