桑賈克貝伊

Also known as Sanjak-bey, sanjaq-bey, -beg

thumb|Asafi Pasha was a Sanjak-bey for [[Shirvan and Dagestan from 1588.]] '''Sanjak-bey, sanjaq-bey or -beg' () was the title given in the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and the Ottoman Empire to a bey (a high-ranking officer, but usually not a pasha) appointed to the military and administrative command of a district (sanjak, in Arabic liwa’), hence the equivalent Arabic title of amir liwa ( ) He was answerable to a superior wāli or another provincial governor. In a few cases the sanjak-bey'' was himself directly answerable to the sultan in Constantinople.