Masyaf District ( Arabic : مصياف Maṣyāf ) is a district ( mantiqah ) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate , Syria . At the 2004 Census it had a population of 169,341. Its administrative centre is the city of Masyaf .
4-580: The district of Masyaf is divided into five sub-districts or nahiyahs (population according to 2004 official census): 35°03′55″N 36°20′32″E / 35.0653°N 36.3422°E / 35.0653; 36.3422 This article about a location in Hama Governorate , Syria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( Arabic : نَاحِيَة [ˈnaːħijah] , plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي [naˈwaːħiː] ), also nahiyeh , nahiya or nahia ,
8-504: A müdür ) and villages ( karye , each governed by a muhtar ). 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 ( Serbian Cyrillic : нахија ). This article about geography terminology
12-494: 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
16-550: Is sometimes translated as " subdistrict ". The nahiye ( Ottoman Turkish : ناحیه ) 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 sanjak and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages. Kaza s, in turn, were divided into nahiye s (each governed by
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