Eyalât-ı Mümtâze

Eyalât-ı Mümtâze or Eyalât-ı Mümtâze ve Muhtâre (literally in German: privileged provinces or privileged and autonomous provinces , in French-language documents: provinces privilegées ) was a collective term in the late Ottoman Empire for the countries that belonged to the Ottoman Empire under international law, but in which the sultan's power was restricted because they either enjoyed autonomous rights or were under foreign occupation.

According to the Reichsjahrbuch ( sâlname ) of 1906, these included:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austrian occupation
• the Principality of Bulgaria
• the province of Eastern Rumelia
• Tunisia (under the rule of a bey and French protectorate)
• the Principality of Samos
• the island of Cyprus under British occupation
• the khedivat Egypt

An author also adds:

• the island of Thasos as the property of the Egyptian ruler
• the Cretan state

According to other sources, 1908 also included:

• the Mutesarriflik Lebanon Mount

swell

• W. Albrecht: Grundzüge des Staatsrechts der Insel Samos In: Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht und Bundesstaatsrecht Vol. 1, No. 1 (1906), pp. 56–70, 58
• Necati validity: Mührün Gücü Ilk Türk-İslam Devletlerinde ve Osmanlılarda Bürokrasi Ötüken Neşriyat A.Ş, İstanbul 2009, ISBN 978-975-437-733-0 , S 287/288
• Wilhelm Wulsch: The public legal status on the island of Crete presented on the basis of the constitutional document of April 28, 1899 Dissertation, Münster 1908, pp. 11-15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilhelm Wulsch: The public legal status on the island of Crete presented on the basis of the constitutional document of April 28, 1899 dissertation, Münster 1908, p. 12
2. ↑ Wilhelm Wulsch: The public legal status on the island of Crete presented on the basis of the constitutional document of April 28, 1899 dissertation, Münster 1908, p. 12
3. ↑ Necati validity: Mührün Gücü Ilk Türk-İslam Devletlerinde ve Osmanlılarda Bürokrasi Ötüken Neşriyat A.Ş, İstanbul 2009, ISBN 978-975-437-733-0 , p. 287.