Damascus Eyalet
| Damascus Eyalet the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
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| 1516–1865 | |||||||||||
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.png) The Damascus Eyalet in 1795 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Damascus[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Battle of Marj Dabiq | 1516 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1865 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Palestine Israel Jordan Syria | ||||||||||
Damascus Eyalet (
Syria Vilayet.[6]
Territorial jurisdiction
The
Safad and Karak.[8] The mamlaka of Aleppo, which covered much of northern Syria, became the Aleppo Eyalet.[8] For a few months in 1521, Tripoli and its district were separated from Damascus Eyalet, but after 1579, the Tripoli Eyalet permanently became its own province.[8]
At the close of the 16th century, the Damascus Eyalet was administratively divided into the Ajlun, Nablus, Jerusalem,[dubious ] Gaza and Karak, in addition to the city of Damascus and its district.[9] There was also the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut, though throughout the late 16th century, it frequently switched hands between the eyalets of Damascus and Tripoli.[10] Briefly in 1614, and then permanently after 1660, the Sidon-Beirut and Safad sanjaks were separated from Damascus to form the Sidon Eyalet.[8] These administrative divisions largely held place with relatively minor changes until the mid-19th century.[11]
Governors
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Damascus Eyalet in the 17th century:[12]
- Khass sanjaks (i.e. yielded a land revenue):
- Sanjak of Damascus
- Sanjak of Jerusalem[dubious]
- Sanjak of Gaza
- Sanjak of Karak
- Sanjak of Safad
- Sanjak of Nablus
- Sanjak of Ajlun
- Sanjak of Lajjun
- Sanjak of Beqaa
- Salyane sanjaks (i.e. had an annual allowance from government):
See also
References
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6 , p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 169, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
- ^ D. E. Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. p. 105. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. J. Perthes. 1867. pp. 827–829. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
- ^ Ze'evi, pp. 1–2.
- ^ a b c d Abu Husayn, p. 11.
- ^ Bakhit 1982, p. 91.
- ^ Abu Husayn, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Salibi, pp. 63–64.
- ^ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
Bibliography
- Abu Husayn, Abdul Rahim (2004). The View from Istanbul: Ottoman Lebanon and the Druze Emirate. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781860648564.
- Bakhit, Muhammad Adnan (1982). The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century. Librairie du Liban. ISBN 9780866853224.
- Salibi, Kamal S. (1988). A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520071964.
- Ze'evi, Dror (1996). An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-2915-6.
