Sanjak of Kyustendil
| Sanjak of Kyustendil | |||||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1395–1878 | |||||||||||
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 The Sanjak of Ghiustendil (Kyustendil) in 1829. | |||||||||||
| Capital | Kyustendil | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1395 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1878 | ||||||||||
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The Sanjak of Kyustendil was an Ottoman administrative-territorial unit that existed from 1395 to 1878. It included the former lands of
Province of the Dejanović family.[citation needed
]
The Kyustendil Sanjak provided the largest number of
Ottoman army of all European Sanjaks, except Rumelia.[citation needed] In its lands is the Rila Monastery and the town of Veles, North Macedonia.[citation needed
]
A very interesting fact is that there is a preserved document according to which in Kyustendil in 1570 there was a professional chess player.[1]
The Kyustendil
Russian tsar (Ivan the Terrible).[2]
See also
- Grandfather Ivan
References
- ^ THE KYUSTENDIL SANJAK IN THE XV-XVI CENTURY, p. 148
- ^ Енциклопедичен речник Кюстендил, стр. 337. БАН. 1988.