millet

name

1. A surname.
2. A town in Alberta, Canada.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

1. A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

   “The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]”

   “[…] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.”