# Agaluk

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{{Short description|Ottoman feudal unit governed by an aga, or lord}}
{{State organisation of Ottoman Empire}}
An '''agaluk''' ({{Langx|ota|آغالق|translit=Ağalık}}) was a feudal unit of the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)<ref>{{cite book|last=Dyneley Prince|first=John| authorlink =John Dyneley Prince|title=Surviving Turkish Elements In Serbo-Croatian|year=1931|publisher=[American Oriental Society](/source/American_Oriental_Society)}}</ref> governed by an [''agha''](/source/Agha_(Ottoman_Empire)) (tax collector landlord).<ref>{{cite book|last=Frucht|first=Richard C.|title=Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture|year=2005|publisher=[ABC-CLIO](/source/ABC-CLIO)|isbn=978-1-57607-800-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/easterneuropeint0000unse/page/636 636]|url=https://archive.org/details/easterneuropeint0000unse/page/636}}</ref>

In [Bosnian history](/source/History_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina), the word ''agaluk'' often refers to land ''owned'' by an ''aga''.<ref name="bosnia">{{cite book|last=Malcolm |first=Noel| authorlink = Noel Malcolm|title=Bosnia: A Short History|year=1994|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0-330-41244-2|pages=317}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire](/source/Subdivisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire)
*[Kadiluk](/source/Kadiluk)
*[Pashaluk](/source/Pashaluk)
*[Sanjak](/source/Sanjak)
* [Timar](/source/Timar), land granted by the Ottoman sultans between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries

==References==
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Category:Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire
Category:Types of administrative division
Category:Feudalism in the Ottoman Empire

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