Sanjak of Vize

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Sanjak of Vize
Ottoman Turkish: Liva-i Vize
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
ca. 1470–ca. 1920
Coat of arms of Vize
Coat of arms
Capital
Tekfürtaği
History 
• Ottoman conquest
ca. 1470
• Disestablished
ca. 1920
Today part ofTurkey

The Sanjak of Vize (

Tekfürtaği
, and until its end ca. 1920 the province was known as the Sanjak of Tekfürtaği.

History

The town of Vize (Greek Bizye) was part of the remnants of the Byzantine Empire, which fell with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

The town became the seat of a

Republic of Turkey
.

References

  1. ^ Birken (1976), p. 59
  2. ^ Birken (1976), pp. 59, 85, 88
  3. ^ Birken (1976), p. 85
  4. ^ a b Birken (1976), p. 100

Sources

  • Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German). Vol. 13. Reichert.
    ISBN 9783920153568
    .

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