A district, province, or administrative jurisdiction ruled by a bey in the Ottoman Empire; the territory or authority of a bey.
From Turkish 'beylik,' derived from 'bey' (a title of rank) with the Turkish suffix '-lik' (meaning 'domain of' or 'state of').
Ottoman Turkish kept 'beylik' as the official term—it's more historically accurate than the English 'beydom,' showing how empires had their own administrative vocabulary.
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