Nahiyah

 ( Types Of Administrative Division ) 

A nāḥiyah ( , plural nawāḥī ), 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. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division while in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Xinjiang, and the former Ottoman Empire, where it was also called a bucak, it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a qadaa, mintaqah or other such district-type division and is sometimes translated as "subdistrict".

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Ottoman Empire The nahiye () was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire, smaller than a kaza. The head was a mütesellim (governor) who was appointed by the Pasha.

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.

The term was adopted by the Principality of Serbia (1817–1833) and Principality of Montenegro (1852–1910), as nahija (нахија).

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Examples

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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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Turkic-speaking territories

• Xinjiang: a subdivision of a prefectural.
• Ottoman Empire: subdistrict, commune, parish; a subdivision of a kaza (قضاء).

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Other

• Districts of Tajikistan: a subdivision of a province.
• Donji Milanovac, a town in Serbia

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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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See also

• Nahia (disambiguation page)

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External links

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