Eyâlet Anatolia

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The Eyâlet Anatolia early 17th century.

The Eyâlet Anatolia ( Ottoman ایالت آناطولی Eyālet-i Anaṭolı ) was one of the core provinces of the Ottoman Empire , along with Eyâlet Rumelia . It was founded in 1393. It extended over an area of ​​170,430 km² over the area of ​​what is now Western Anatolia, the capital being Kütahya .

history

The province was founded in 1393, when Sultan Bayezid I. Kara Timurtasch to Beylerbey and appointed viceroy of Anatolia, while in Europe against Mircea I of Wallachia fought. The province was called Beylik or Vilâyet at that time and only from 1591 as Eyâlet . It was the second province after Rumelia. The province's first capital was Ankara , then Kütahya from the late 15th century.

As part of the Tanzima reforms, the Eyâlet was dissolved in the middle of the 19th century and divided into smaller provinces. The exact date of the dissolution is not known; information from scientists fluctuates between 1832 and 1864.

Administrative units

In 1530 the Eyâlet consisted of 17 sandjaks :
  1. Sanjak Saruhan
  2. Sanjak Kutahya
  3. Sanjak Aydın
  4. Sanjak Menteşe
  5. Sandschak Teke
  6. Sanjak Hamid-ili
  7. Sanjak Karahisar-ı Sahib
  8. Sanjak Sultan-Oni
  9. Sanjak Hüdavendigar
  10. Sanjak Kocaeli
  11. Sanjak Bolu
  12. Sanjak Kastamonu
  13. Sanjak Kankırı
  14. Sanjak Ankara
  15. Sanjak Alaiyye
  16. Sanjak Karesi
  17. Sanjak Biga
 In 1609 there were still 15 sanjaks:
  1. SandschakKütahya (Liva-i Kütahya, Paşa Sanjakı )
  2. Sanjak Saruhan (Liva-i Saruhan Hass-ı Mîr Liva)
  3. Sanjak Aydin (Liva-i Aydın)
  4. Sandschak Hüdavendigâr (Liva-i Hüdavendigâr)
  5. Sanjak Kastamonu (Liva-i Kastamonu)
  6. Sandschak Menteşe (Liva-i Menteşe)
  7. Sanjak Bolu (Liva-i Bolu)
  8. Sanjak Ankara (Liva-i Bankara)
  9. Sanjak Karahisar-i Sahib (Liva-i Karahisar-ı Sahib)
  10. Sandschak Teke (Liva-i Teke)
  11. Sanjak Kangırı (Liva-i Kangırı)
  12. Sanjak Hamid (Liva-i Hamid)
  13. Sanjak Sultanönü (Liva-i Sultanönü)
  14. Sanjak Karasi (Liva-i Karasi)
 The following sanjaks existed in 1700 and 1740:
  1. Sanjak Kütahya ( Paşa Sanjakı , Kütahya )
  2. Sanjak Hüdavendigâr ( Bursa )
  3. Sanjak Bolu ( Bolu )
  4. Sanjak Kastamonu ( Kastamonu )
  5. Sanjak Karasi ( Balıkesir )
  6. Sanjak Sultanönü ( Eskişehir )
  7. Sanjak Saruhan ( Manisa )
  8. Sanjak Karahisar-i Sahib ( Afyonkarahisar )
  9. Sanjak Hamid ( Isparta )
  10. Sanjak Ankara ( Ankara )
  11. Sanjak Kânkırı ( Çankırı )
  12. Sanjak Aydin ( Aydın )
  13. Sandschak Teke ( Antalya )
  14. Sanjak Menteşe ( Muğla )
  15. Sanjak Beybazarı ( Beypazarı )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters: Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1438110257 , p. 14.
  2. ^ The Popular Encyclopedia: Or, Conversations Lexicon . Volume 6, Blackie & Son, Glasgow / Edinborough 1862, p. 698.
  3. ^ VL Ménage: Beglerbegī . In: The Encyclopedia of Islam. Volume I: A-B. BRILL, Leiden / New York 1986, ISBN 90-04-08114-3 , pp. 1159-1160.
  4. ↑ a b Halil İnalcık: Eyālet. In: The Encyclopedia of Islam. Volume II: C-G. BRILL, Leiden / New York 1991, ISBN 90-04-07026-5 , pp. 721-724.
  5. ↑ a b c Andreas Birken: The provinces of the Ottoman Empire . (= Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East , Volume 13), Reichert, 1976, ISBN 978-3920153568 , p. 115.
  6. ↑ Rumeli Eyaleti . Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı, Ankara 2013, p. 11
  7. ↑ Çetin Varlık: Anadolu Eyaleti Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi . Osmanlı. Volume 6: Teşkilât , Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-09-9 , p. 125
  8. ↑ Orhan Kılıç: XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması . Osmanlı. Volume 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-09-9 , p. 93