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Eğri Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت اگیر; Eyālet-i Egīr,[1] Hungarian: Egri vilajet, Serbian: Jegarski ejalet or Јегарски ејалет) or Pashaluk of Eğri was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire formed in 1596 with its capital at Eğri (Hungarian: Eger). It included parts of present-day Hungary and Slovakia.
| Eyālet-i Egīr Egri ejálet Jegarski ejalet | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1596–1687 | |||||||||||
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.png) The Eğri Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Eğri (Hungarian: Eger) | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 47°53′N 20°22′E / 47.883°N 20.367°E | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1596 | |||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1687 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Hungary, Slovakia | ||||||||||
The population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Slovaks and Hungarians (living mainly in the north), Serbs (living mainly in the south), and Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities). Other ethnic communities included Jews and Romani.
Administrative divisions
editThe province included the following sanjaks:[2]
- Sanjak of Eğri (Eger)
- Sanjak of Segedin (Szeged)
- Sanjak of Sonluk (Szolnok)
- Sanjak of Seçen (Szécsény)
- Sanjak of Hatvan (Hatvan)
- Sanjak of Novigrad (Nógrád)
- Sanjak of Filek (Filakovo) (Its center was Rim Sonbat)
References
edit- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/1267/14566.pdf Macaristan'da Osmanlı Hakimiyetinin ve İdari Teşkilatının Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi, Sadık Müfit Bilge
- Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.