Word: vilayet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague handed down a decision to the effect that the Council of the League of Nations has authority to determine the final disposition of the Vilayet of Mosul, and that the disposition of the Council shall be binding upon the chiefly interested Powers, Turkey and Britain...
...council of the vilayet*; of Constantinople appointed a commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name. In each case a Turkish equivalent must be found; in the case of San Stefano (on the Sea of Marmora near Constantinople), however, a new name must be found as it "savors of an alien faith...