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mukataa

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Noun1.mukataa - an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center; "Arafat was holed up in the mukataa of his West Bank compound"
central office, headquarters, main office, home base, home office - (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"
Arabic, Arabic language - the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
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He blockaded Arafat in the Ramallah Mukataa (Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank) and demolished the Fatah infrastructure throughout the occupied territories.
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But his analysis of the timar system and the later mukataa system of tax-farming has the merit of demonstrating that, once beyond the Dinaric range of the Balkans, one is truly outside Europe.
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