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‖ beglerbeg|ˈbɛgləbɛg|
Also 6 bellerbey, 6–9 beglerbey, 7 beglarbeg.
[a. Turk. beglerbeg bey of beys; cf. beg (of which begler is plural).]
The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, in rank next to the grand vizier.
Hence begler-beglic, -lik, -luc, the district over which a beglerbeg rules, the dignity or office of a beglerbeg. Also beglerbegship.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. 631 Neither doth any other sit there but the twelve bellerbeis. 1602Carew Cornwall 126 a, A Turkish Beglerbey of Greece. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 945 It is now one of the Turkes proud Beglerbegships. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 377 Begler-Beg is Lord of Lords, that is one which hath vnder his gouernment diuers Begs of lesser Prouinces. And Begluc is the Dignitie of the one, Beglarbegluc of the other. 1624Massinger Renegado iii. iv, What places of credit are there?.. There's your beglerbeg. 1813C. Hobhouse Journey 162 Reckoned the eighth under the Beglerbey of Romania. |