Obs. Also 7 -ique, 8 bassalick. [a. Turkish bāshālik, pāshālik jurisdiction of a pāshā: see next.] Earlier form of PASHALIK, the district under the jurisdiction of a pasha.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, III. 238. It … remaineth yet a Bashalique, although of late governed by a Deputy.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1726), 5. A Woody Mountainous Country, which ends the Bashalick of Aleppo.
