Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (Arabic: نَاحِيَة [ˈnaːħijah], plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي [naˈwaːħiː]), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division while in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Xinjiang, and the former Ottoman Empire, where it was also called a bucak, it is a third-level or lower division.The kaza was a subdivision of a sanjak[1] and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages.[2] Revisions of 1871 to the administrative law established the nahiye (still governed by a müdür) as an intermediate level between the kaza and the village.[3] In modern contexts it may be used with the meaning of anything between 'census region',[4] and 'section' as in "Section (nāḥia) 2 of eleven local fishing stations".