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Definition of Kaimakams
1. kaimakam [n] - See also: kaimakam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaimakams
Literary usage of Kaimakams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1891)
"... to the kaimakams the execution of all affairs which come within the limit of
the powers confided to them. As regards questions which pass this limit, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"The sub- governors, or governors of sub-districts, kaimakams, should by law be
chosen from Mussulmans or Christians, "selon le besoin;" as a fact, ..."
3. History of Zionism, 1600-1918 by Nahum Sokolow (1919)
"Under the Governor were seven kaimakams, all Christians except a Druse in Shuf,
... on the kaimakams, except one, in the home district of Dier-al- Ka mar. ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1862)
"... receive a salary of $3000 per month, and the kaimakams or governors of ...
and kaimakams are appointed by the tanzimat on the nomination of the sultan, ..."
5. DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1858)
"For such as they select, the kaimakams pay of course whatever they please, and
the trader dare not remonstrate. We have never seen in Egypt or on the ..."
6. The Balkan Question: The Present Condition of the Balkans and of European by Luigi Villari (1905)
"... and kaimakams were all alike appointed by the Sultan. On the Administrative
Councils the elective element of six members, three Musulmans, ..."
7. Annals of British Legislation: Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of edited by Leone Levi (1865)
"His Excellency had already given orders for the two kaimakams of the Mountain
... In pursuance of that mandate, the two kaimakams, and the others, came in, ..."
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