Qaimaqam
| Military ranks of the Ottoman Empire | ||
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| Ottoman ranks |
Western equivalents |
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| Officers | ||
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Müşir مشير |
Field marshal | |
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Birinci Ferik (Serdar) فريق أول |
General | |
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Ferik فريق |
Lieutenant general | |
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Mirliva أمير لواء |
Major general | |
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Miralay أمير آلاي |
Brigadier | |
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Kaymakam قائم مقام |
Colonel | |
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Binbaşı بكباشي |
Lieutenant colonel | |
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Kolağası (Sağ Kolağası / Sol Kolağası) قول أغاسي |
Major | |
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Yüzbaşı يوزباشي |
Captain | |
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Mülâzım-ı Evvel ملازم أول |
First lieutenant | |
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Mülâzım-ı Sani ملازم ثاني |
Second lieutenant | |
| Non-commissioned officers | ||
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Çavuş شاويش |
Sergeant | |
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Onbaşı أونباشي |
Corporal | |
| Soldiers | ||
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Nefer نفر |
Private | |
| Military ranks of Egypt | ||
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Turco-Egyptian ranks (until 1958) |
Modern Egyptian ranks |
Western equivalents |
| Officers | ||
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Mushir |
General of the army/ field marshal |
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Sirdar سردار |
Fariq awwal |
General |
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Fariq |
Lieutenant general | |
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Liwa |
Major general | |
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Amiralay أمير آلاي |
Amid |
Brigadier |
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Qaimaqam قائم مقام |
Aqid |
Colonel |
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Bimbashi |
Muqaddam |
Lieutenant colonel |
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Sagh |
Raid |
Major |
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Yuzbashi يوزباشي |
Naqib |
Captain |
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Mulazim awwal |
First lieutenant | |
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Mulazim thani |
Mulazim |
Second lieutenant |
| Non-commissioned officers | ||
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Shawish شاويش |
Raqib |
Sergeant |
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Ombashi أونباشي |
Arif |
Corporal |
| Soldiers | ||
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Askari عسكري |
Jundi |
Private |
Qaim Maqam, Qaimaqam or Kaymakam (also spelled kaimakam and caimacam; Ottoman Turkish: قائم مقام, "sub-governor") is the title used for the governor of a provincial district in the Republic of Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and in Lebanon; additionally, it was a title used for roughly the same official position in the Ottoman Empire.
The modern Turkish term kaymakam originally comes from two originally Arabic words as used in Ottoman Turkish: kâim (قائم), meaning "standing"; and makâm (مقام), originally used for "place" but, in this context, used with the sense of "office", "position", or "state". Thus, in Ottoman times, a kâim-makâm was a state officer who was considered a representative of, or "standing in place" of the sultan at a local level (similar to the English Lord Lieutenant); today, a kaymakam is a representative of the government or state at a local level.
According to some, the first kaymakam in history was ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who is supposed to have been appointed by the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, as the first rightful caliph. Thus, ‘Alī was considered to be serving "in the place of" Muhammad.
The term Qaim Maqam has a specific meaning in Moldavian and Wallachian history, where it refers to a temporary replacement for a Hospodar ("prince"), in and after Phanariote rule, as well as the delegates of the Oltenian Ban in Craiova after the main office was moved to Bucharest during the same period (1761).
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