Croatian vilayet
| Croatian Vilayet Vilayet-i Hırvat | |||||||||||
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Borderland of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1520s–1537 | |||||||||||
.svg) Coat of arms
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| Capital | Sinj | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Ottoman conquest of parts of Dalmatia | 1520s | ||||||||||
• Annexation to the Sanjak of Klis | 1537 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Croatia | ||||||||||
The Croatian Vilayet.
Establishment and territory
Immediately after the Ottoman capture of the
Krka.[5] This territory was administratively governed as the Croatian vilayet which belonged to the Sanjak of Bosnia and listed as such in its 1530 defter (tax registry).[6]
Administration
The capital of the vilayet was Sinj. Its territory was under the jurisdiction of the Skradin kadiluk. Aličić claimed that territories of the Croatian vilayet and Skradin kadiluk were the same and that the official Ottoman administrative unit, Croatian vilayet, was under administrative-judicial jurisdiction of Skradin.[7][8]
In 1528 the Croatian vilayet and kadiluk of Skradin had the following
The first governor of the Croatian vilayet was
Islamization of the newly conquered population was much faster than earlier assumed.[7]
The Croatian vilayet was disestablished when it was annexed by the newly established Sanjak of Klis in 1537.[12][13]
Annotations
References
- ^ a b c Moačanin 2006, p. 148.
- ISBN 978-88-8334-334-6.
... the Ottomans immediately imposed their administrative system on the conquered territory in the Dalmatian hinterland organising the whole territory of the Dalmatian hinterland and Lika as vilajet Hrvati.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-85667-624-6.
- ISBN 978-953-7534-02-8.
- ^ Šime Pilić, God. Titius, god.1, br. 1 (2008.), p 107
- ^ Različite refleksije osmanskog osvajanja srednjodalmatinskog zaleđa, Zašto su osmanski popisni defteri nezaobilazni izvori, Anali: Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke;2013, Vol. 34, p. 103 "Areas that are examined in this paper were conquered before the formation of the Klis Sanjak and were administratively regulated within the Vilayet Croats, which belonged to the Bosnian Sandžak, and was so listed in the extensive census of the Bosnian Sanjak in 1530.
- ^ a b c d Fine 2010, p. 215.
- ISBN 978-86-401-0102-8.
- ^ a b Šabanović 1959, p. 176.
- ISBN 978-9958-39-010-4.
- ^ Prilozi. Institut. 1978. p. 120.
- ^ Mogućnosti. Matica hrvatska, Split. 2000. p. 75.
- ^ ISBN 978-88-6129-300-7.
Concerning the bordering Croat vilayet (in the Klis sandzak from 1537) ...
- ^ Radovi: Razdio povijesnih znanosti. Vol. 21. Fakultet. 1995. p. 170.
There is a solid basis for this theorv because the territorial gains in this Dalmatian territorv were called initially vilayet Croats.
Sources
- Fine, John V. A. (2010). When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02560-2.
- Moačanin, Nenad (2006). Town and Country on the Middle Danube: 1526-1690. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-14758-6.
Further reading
- Šabanović, Hazim (1959). "Vilajet Hrvati i Kadiluk Skradin". Bosanski pašaluk: postanak i upravna podjela. Oslobodenje. p. 176.
- Anali: Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke . 2013, Vol. 34, pp. 103–115. 13p.