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Tanzimat

Tanzimat proper noun: a period of modernizing reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

Proper noun

the Tanzimat

  1. (historical) A period of modernizing reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

Origin of Tanzimat

From Ottoman Turkish تنظيمات (“reorganization”), from Arabic.

Questions about Tanzimat

What does Tanzimat mean?
Tanzimat means a period of modernizing reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.
What part of speech is Tanzimat?
Tanzimat is a proper noun.

Words near Tanzimat in the dictionary

  1. Tanzi effect
  2. Tanzi effects
  3. tanzib
  4. tanzibs
  5. tanzies
  6. Tanzimat
  7. Tanzini
  8. Tanzis
  9. tanztheater
  10. tanzy
  11. tao

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