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A nāḥiyah ( , plural نَوَاحِي, ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. The Ottoman nahiye, also called a bucak, was a third-level or lower administrative division, and remains as such in some such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, with the Balkans states of Serbia and Montenegro having preserved the term for a while after liberation for the highest administrative unit as nahija. In Tajikistan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang, both from the Turco-Persian or Turkic peoples regions of Asia, it is a second- and third-level division, respectively. A nahiyah can constitute a division of a qadaa, mintaqah or other such district-type division and is sometimes translated as "subdistrict".
The kaza was a subdivision of a sanjakSelçuk Akşin Somel. "Kazâ". The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Volume 152 of A to Z Guides. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 151. and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages. Kazas, in turn, were divided into nahiyes (each governed by a müdür) and villages (karye, each governed by a muhtar).Gökhan Çetinsaya. The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890–1908. SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East. Routledge, 2006. p. 8-9. Revisions of 1871 to the administrative law established the nahiye (still governed by a müdür) as an intermediate level between the kaza and the village.
Successor states in the Balkans
After achieving national liberation, the Principality of Serbia (1817–1833) and Principality of Montenegro (1852–1910) preserved the term as nahija (нахија).
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Arabic-speaking countries
Syria mintaqah (formerly qadaa) district Palestine Liwa' governorates Districts of Palestine Iraq Qadaa district Subdistricts of Iraq Lebanon Jordan Liwa' governorate Nahias of Jordan
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Persian language
Persian has borrowed the Arabic word with the spelling ناحیه. Encyclopædia Iranica transliterates it mostly as nahia or, with diacritics, nāḥia/nāḥīa. "Jamkarān", Encyclopædia Iranica - online version. Quote: "... Jamkarān was the first village founded in the Qom district ( nāḥia) by Jam. " Retrieved 15 Dec 2024. In modern contexts it may be used with the meaning of anything between 'census region', "Census: i. In Iran", Encyclopædia Iranica - online version. Quote: "The country was divided into 25 census regions ( nāḥīa)..." Retrieved 15 Dec 2024. and 'section' as in "Section ( nāḥia) 2 of eleven local fishing stations". "Āstāna", Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 8, p. 837 - online version. Retrieved 15 Dec 2024.
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