Kadiluk

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Constitutional period
This article is about kadiluks as judicial districts. For treatment of kadiluks as administrative districts, see Kaza.

A kadiluk (Ottoman Turkish: قاضیـلق, kadıluk) was the jurisdiction of a kadi,[1] an Islamic judge under the Ottoman Empire. They typically consisted of a major city and its surrounding villages, although some kadis occupied other positions within the imperial administration.[2]

  1. ^ Katz (2012), p. 264.
  2. ^ Hickok, Michael Robert (1997). Ottoman military administration in eighteenth-century Bosnia. Brill. p. 54. ISBN 978-90-04-10689-5.