Kars Eyalet
| Eyālet-i Ḳarṣ | |||||||||
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the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1580–1875 | |||||||||
.png) The Kars Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Kars[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1580 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1875 | ||||||||
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The Eyalet of Karsromanized: Eyālet-i Ḳarṣ)[3] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 6,212 square miles (16,090 km2).[4]
The town of
Shah Abbas in 1604 and rebuilt by the Turks in 1616.[5]
The size of the Kars garrison in 1640s was 1,002 Janissaries and 301 local recruits. Total 1,303 garrison.[6]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Kars Eyalet in the 17th century:[7]
- Little Erdehan Sanjak (Göle)
- Hujujan Sanjak (Çıldır)
- Zarshad Sanjak (Arpaçay)
- Kechran Sanjak (Tunçkaya (Keçivan))
- Kaghizman Sanjak (Kağızman)
- Kars Sanjak, the seat of the Pasha
References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ The penny cyclopædia, p. 180, at Google Books By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
- ^ "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
- ^ M. Th. Houtsma
- ^ Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700, Rhoads Murphey, 1999, p.226
- ^ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
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