vizirate

vizirate

(vɪˈzərət)
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an archaic variant of vizierate
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In individual sub-chapters devoted to Ottoman institutions such as the Grand Vizirate, the Dual Beylerbeylik, the Kadiaskerlik, the Defterdarlik, etc., Koprulu showed that whatever his adversaries attributed to a direct borrowing from the Byzantine Empire, had also existed in pre-Ottoman Turkic civilizations, such as the Seljuks or Danishmendids, or in the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates.