mukhtar , n :
In the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, many Arab countries, Cyprus, and other places: the head of a village, town, etc.; or a minor official of a province. (specifically) Alternative spelling of muhtar (“in Turkey, the elected head of a village, or of a neighbourhood in a town or city”) (India, historical) A person acting as an agent; specifically, a lawyer. Today is عيد الإستقلال, the Independence Day of Jordan, which celebrates the end of the Emirate of Transjordan as a British protectorate and the establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on this date 75 years ago in 1946.
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