Eyalet of the Archipelago
Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea ایالت جزایر بحر سفید ( Ottoman Turkish) Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||
1533–1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||
The Eyalet of the Archipelago in 1609 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Gallipoli[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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• Established | 1533 | ||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Today part of |
The Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea (
History
During the early period of the
In 1533/4, the corsair captain
After Hayreddin's death in 1546, the sanjak of
By the early 19th century, the eyalet was reduced to the sanjaks of Biga (now the pasha-sanjak, its centre was moved to
Including Crete, its reported area in the 19th century was 9,829 square miles (25,460 km2) and its population around 700,000.[8]
Other names
The eyalet's English names are the Province of the Islands
Dejezayr-Bahr-i-Rum
The Ottoman 'Vilâyet Djezayr Bahr-i-Sefid' for the islands was derived from an old Arabic name 'Djezayr-Bahr-i-Rum' (جزائر بحر الروم), Province of Djezayrs[1] or Dschesair,[8] the Province of the Islands of the Archipelago,[8] the Province of the Islands of the White Sea,[11] and the Eyalet of the Mediterranean Islands.[12]
Administrative divisions
See also
- List of Kapudan Pashas
- List of Ottoman admirals
- The Eyalet of the Western Archipelago(Algiers), also held by the Kapudan Pashas
- The Samos
Sources
- ^ a b c Macgregor, John. Commercial Statistics: A Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs Tariffs, Navigation, Port, and Quarantine Laws, and Charges, Shipping, Imports and Exports, and the Monies, Weights, and Measures of All Nations. Including All British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States 2 ed., Vol. II, p. 12. Whittaker and Co. (London), 1850. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- Ottoman Turkishname for the Mediterranean.
- ^ ISBN 90-04-07026-5.
- ^ ISBN 90-04-05745-5.
- ^ ISBN 9783920153568.
- ^ https://www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/varliklar/dosyalar/eskisiteden/yayinlar/genel-mudurluk-yayinlar/osmanli_yer_adlari.pdf Ottoman place names (Page: 293)
- ^ https://www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/varliklar/dosyalar/eskisiteden/yayinlar/genel-mudurluk-yayinlar/osmanli_yer_adlari.pdf Ottoman place names (Pages of 128 and 180
- ^ a b c The Popular Encyclopedia; or, Conversations Lexicon. Revised ed. Vol. VI, pp. 698 & 701. Blackie & Son (London), 1862. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- ^ MacKay, Pierre. "Acrocorinth in 1668, a Turkish Account." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 37(4), 386–397. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- ^ a b Çelebi, Evliya. Trans. by von Hammer, Joseph. Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the seventeenth century, Vol. 1, p. 91. Parbury, Allen, & Co. (London), 1834. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- ^ Süssheim, K. "AĶ DEŇIZ." Encyclopaedia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography, and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples. E.J. Brill and Luzac & Co. (Leiden), 1938. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- ^ Greene, Molly. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean, p. 22. Princeton University Press (Princeton), 2002. Accessed 10 September 2011.
- ^ Emecen, Feridun (1998). "Osmanlı Taşra Teşkilâtının Kaynaklarından 957-958 (1550-1551) Tarihli Sancak Tevcîh Defteri (42 sayfa belge ile birlikte)". Belgeler. XIX: 53–98 – via Türk Tarih Kurumu.
- ^ ISBN 975-6782-09-9. (in Turkish)
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