Today's words

Courtesy of a word game.  You'll see the theme of it:

burgh - borough; specifically: an incorporated town in Scotland having local jurisdiction of certain services

arrondissement - 1. an administrative district of some large French cities.  2. the largest division of a French department

canton - a small territorial division of a country: as a. one of the states of the Swiss confederation,  b. a division of a French arrondissement

sanjak - a Turkish district or secondary administrative subdivision

parish - 1b. British a subdivision of a county often coinciding with an original ecclesiastical parish and constituting the unit of local government

I was familiar with the other definitions of the last word, particularly the one dealing with the Louisianan equivalent of a county.  I was unaware there was of the similar British usage. Apparently this usage may have roots in the convenience of referring to a section of a British county by the (at one time, Catholic, then Church of England) local church therein?

And I was also expecting something along the lines of the first definition, but expected it to be German, not Scottish.