Baghdad Eyalet
| Eyalet of Baghdad Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بغداد | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire Under Safavid occupation (1624–1638) | |||||||||||
| 1535–1864 | |||||||||||
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.png) The Baghdad Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Baghdad[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1535 | |||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Iraq | ||||||||||
Baghdad Eyalet (
romanized: Eyālet-i Baġdād)[2] was an Iraqi eyalet of the Ottoman Empire centered on Baghdad. Its reported area in the 19th century was 62,208 square miles (161,120 km2).[3]
History
Hanafi school of law which the Ottomans adopted as their official legal guide.[4]
In 1534, Baghdad was captured by the Ottoman Empire,[4] and the eyalet was established in 1535.[5] Between 1623 and 1638, it was once again in Iranian hands. It was decisively recaptured by the Ottomans in 1638,[4] whose possession over Iraq was agreed upon in the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab.
For a time, Baghdad had been the largest city in the Middle East. The city saw relative revival in the latter part of the 18th century under a largely autonomous
Ali Ridha Pasha in 1831. From 1851 to 1852 and from 1861 to 1867, Baghdad was governed, under the Ottoman Empire by Mehmed Namık Pasha
. The Nuttall Encyclopedia reports the 1907 population of Baghdad as 185,000.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Baghdad Eyalet in the 17th century:[6]
Seven of the eighteen Sanjaks of this eyalet were divided into ziamets and Timars:
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The other eleven sanjaks had no ziamets or Timars and were entirely in the power of their possessors:
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References
- ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ Donald Edgar Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire. Brill Archive. p. 126. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ Evliya Çelebi; Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1834). Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century. Oriental Translation Fund. p. 90. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
See also