Trebizond Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طربزون, romanized: Eyālet-i Ṭrabzōn)[2] or Trabzon Beylerbeyliği was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
| Trebizond Eyalet | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1598–1867 | |||||||||
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.png) The Trebizond Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Trebizond[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1598 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1867 | ||||||||
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Established in 1598,[3] it remained a primarily Christian region into the 17th century, well after the rest of Anatolia had been converted to Islam.[3] Its reported area in the 19th century was 10,507 square miles (27,210 km2).[4]
Administrative divisions
edit| Sanjaks of Trebizond Eyalet in the 17th century:[5] | Sanjaks in the early 19th century:[6] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 146, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
- ^ System of universal geography founded on the works of Malte-Brun and Balbi — Open Library (p. 646)
Bibliography
edit- Lowry, Heath W. (2003). The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780791456361.
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