Sanjak of Rhodes
| Sanjak of Rhodes Liva-i Rodos ( Ottoman Turkish) | |||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1522–1912 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Rhodes | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Ottoman conquest of Rhodes | 1522 | ||||||||
| 1912 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||
The Sanjak of Rodos or Rhodes (
History
After the Ottoman conquest of Rhodes from the Knights Hospitaller in 1522,[1] the island initially became the seat of a beylerbey, and was not subordinated to the Eyalet of the Archipelago as a sub-province (sanjak) until 1546.[2] However, for most of the duration of Ottoman rule, apart from Rhodes itself, the other Southern Sporades islands (the remainder of the Dodecanese including Samos) were practically autonomous, and were not subject to a centralized administration until the introduction of the uniform vilayet-based administrative system in the 1860s.[2] Rhodes itself did not enjoy this autonomy, and declined during the early Ottoman period both as a commercial centre and as a site of military importance, since the Eastern Mediterranean became an Ottoman lake. Only from the 18th century on is there evidence for an economic upturn in the island.[1][3]
During the
Rhodes apparently became the seat of the
In 1912, the year the province was occupied by the
References
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.
- ^ ISBN 3-920153-56-1.
- ^ a b Eleni Bazini (23 March 2007). "Rhodes, Chapter 2.4: Ottoman rule". Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago. Foundation of the Hellenic World. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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