Beylik is a Turkish word, meaning "the territory under the jurisdiction of a
Bey
Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg, Begh, or Beg, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and a royal, aristocratic title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in ...
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Duchy
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fiefdom, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or Queen regnant, queen in Western European tradition.
There once existed an important differe ...
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principality
A principality (or sometimes princedom) is a type of monarchy, monarchical state or feudalism, feudal territory ruled by a prince or princess. It can be either a sovereign state or a constituent part of a larger political entity. The term "prin ...
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Beylik of Çubukoğulları
Beylik of Çubukoğulları (, literally "sons of Çubuk") was a small and short-lived principality in East Anatolia, Turkey between 1085 and 1112.
Çubuk was a commander in the Seljuk army. After the battle of Malazgirt in 1071, he fought in Eas ...
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Beylik of Bafra
The Beylik of Bafra was one of the Beyliks of Canik (), a group of small Turkmen principalities in northern Anatolia during the 14th and 15th centuries.
In 1460 the beylik of Bafra became a part of the Ottoman Empire.
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Beylik of Hacıemir
Beylik of Hacıemir (also called ''Beylik of Bayram'') was a beylik (lordship) in the north Anatolia in a part of 14th and 15th centuries. The historical documents about the beylik are scarce. In some documents the beylik was named ''Bayramoğulla ...
, an beylik in the north Anatolia in a part of 14th and 15th centuries
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Beylik of Dulkadir
The Beylik of Dulkadir () was one of the Turkish Anatolian beyliks (principality) established by the Oghuz Turk clans Bayat, Afshar, and Begdili after the decline of Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
Etymology
The meaning of Dulkadir is unclear. ...
, one of the frontier principalities
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Beylik of Erzincan
The Emirate of Erzincan was a state centered around the city of Erzincan that controlled parts of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus in the 14th and early 15th centuries. Its first known ruler, Ahi Ayna (), rose to power as a vassal of the Eretn ...
, a principality in east Anatolia, Turkey in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries
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Beylik, Karacabey
Beylik is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karacabey, Bursa Province
Bursa Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in Turkey along the Sea of Marmar ...
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Beylik of Tacettin
Beylik of Tacettin (Tacettinoğulları, Tacettinids) was a small Turkmen principality in Anatolia in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Tacettin
After Seljuks of Anatolia were defeated by the Mongols in 1243, many small beylik (principalities) emerged ...
, a small Turkmen principality in Anatolia in the 14th and 15th centuries
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Beylik of Tunis
The Beylik of Tunis () was a de facto independent state located in present-day Tunisia, formally part of the Ottoman Empire. It was ruled by the Husainid dynasty from 1705 until the establishment of the French protectorate of Tunisia in 1881. T ...
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Anatolian beyliks
Anatolian beyliks (, Ottoman Turkish: ''Tavâif-i mülûk'', ''Beylik''; ) were Turkish principalities (or petty kingdoms) in Anatolia governed by ''beys'', the first of which were founded at the end of the 11th century. A second and more exte ...
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Beuluk
A janissary (, , ) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops. They were the first modern standing army, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped with firearms, adopted dur ...
, a member of the Ottoman sultan's janissary bodyguard
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Bəylik (disambiguation), places in Azerbaijan
* Beylik, administrative units (historic divisions) of
Crimean Khanate
The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of th ...
in Tatar Crimea
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