Banner (country subdivision)
Banner is a type of administrative division, and may more specifically refer to:- A Banner is an administrative division of an Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China, equivalent to a Chinese county in the rest of China. Qosighuns or qoshuns, sometimes transcribed by hoshuns or khoshuns, were the battalion level of administrative/military subdivision in the Mongol army.
- Qosighuns or khoshuns, former division of Outer Mongolia grouped in aimag.
- An Autonomous banner is an area associated with one or more ethnic minorities designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China.
- The Eight Banners are former administrative divisions of China into which all Manchu households were placed, primarily for military purposes.
- Kozhuun, subdivisions of former Tannu Uriankhai and now Russian Tuva.
Anatolia
- A Bandon was the lowest Byzantine administrative-cum-military unit. "Bandon" means "banner".
- Sanjak, literally "a banner, flag", was the original first level subdivision of the Ottoman Empire.
- Liwa, an Arabic term meaning "banner" as a type of administrative division.
