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‖ mutessarif|muːtəˈsariːf|
Also mutasarrif, mutassarif, mutasserif, mutesarrif, mutussarif.
[Turk., ad. Arab. mutaṣarrif governor of a sanjak.]
In the Ottoman Empire and Iraq, a governor of a province.
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 446/2 Batum..is now the seat of a mutessarif, or deputy-governor. 1900G. Bell Let. 2 May (1927) I. 87 There has come a telegram from Damascus to bid me say the Mutussarif fears for the safety of your presence. 1914T. E. Lawrence Let. June (1938) 174 All the Consuls & Valis & Kaims & Mutasarrifs & Commandants came out also. 1919R. Webb Let. 28 June in M. Llewellyn Smith Ionian Vision (1973) vi. 106 We were gradually getting the bad Valis, Mutessarifs, &c, removed. 1921Blackw. Mag. June 705/2 A few of the political officers remain in the new capacity of Adviser to an Arab Mutassarif. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 760/2 It was in Jerusalem that he was able to watch the simple methods of Rauf Pasha, then Mutessarif of El Kuds. 1969D. Walder Chanak xi. 199 The Mutessarif of Chanak (a combination of English mayor and French prefect) had taken over the Sanjak. 1972D. Dakin Unification of Greece viii. 116 The mutessarifs (provincial governors) were, if Christian, to have Moslem assessors, and, if Moslems, then Christian assessors. |