Kaymakam
（重定向自Caimacam）
![The kaymakam in Constantinople with his attendants, anonymous Greek painter, ca. 1809](/Images/godic/202501/02/Kaymakam,_or_Governor_of_Istanbul1110.jpg")
![Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sirviendo como kaymakam en 1915.](/Images/godic/202501/02/Ataturk131111.JPG")
Qaim Maqam, Qaimaqam or Kaymakam (also spelled kaimakam and caimacam; Ottoman Turkish:قائم مقام, "sub-governor") is the title used for the governor of a provincial district in the Republic of Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and in Lebanon; additionally, it was a title used for roughly the same official position in the Ottoman Empire.