Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An imposition by the (Turkish) government; compulsory tax; government exaction; “aid,” “benevolence” (Marsh); specifically (as applied by Christians), an extortionate exaction or tax levied by the Turks.
- noun An imposition or tax levied by Turkish officials on merchants; as generally considered, an extortionate tax.
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Examples
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I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village.
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I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village.
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I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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