Eyalet ( Turkish eyalet , from Arabic Ayyala - management) is an administrative-territorial unit , a province in the Ottoman Empire from the end of the 16th century to the 1860s and in the Safavid state from the beginning of the 16th century to 1722 . At the head of the eyalet was a balerbay . At the beginning of the XVII century, the Ottoman Empire was divided into 32 eylets, the Safavid state - into 13 eylets. In the Ottoman Empire, the system of eyelids was reorganized in 1864, and in 1866 it was replaced by a system of Vilayats [1] .
- The most important provinces
- Egypt is a province of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867.
- Baghdad ( Baghdad Eyalet ) - in the years 1535-1864.
- Abyssinia ( Habesh Eyalet ) - in 1554-1802 and 1813-1872,
- Buda - in the years 1541-1686.
- Anatolia - in the years 1393-1841.
- Rumelia ( Rumelia Eyalet ) - approx. 1365-1867 years.
See also
- The administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Balerbey
- Vilayat
Notes
Literature
- Eyale // Elokventsiya - Yaya. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1957. - P. 294. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 49).
- Colin Imber. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power . (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.)
- Halil Inalcik . The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 . Trans. Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973.)
- Paul Robert Magocsi. Historical Atlas of Central Europe . (2nd ed.) Seattle, WA, USA: Univ. of Washington Press, 2002)
- Nouveau Larousse illustré , undated (early 20th century), passim (in French)
- Donald Edgar Pitcher. An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire . (Leiden, Netherlands: EJBrill, 1972.) (Includes 36 color maps)
- Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte