Silistra Eyalet

Coordinates: 44°7′N 27°16′E / 44.117°N 27.267°E / 44.117; 27.267
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Province of Ochakiv
Eyalet-i Silistra
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1593–1864
Flag of Silistra Eyalet
Flag
Özi
Area
 • Coordinates44°7′N 27°16′E / 44.117°N 27.267°E / 44.117; 27.267
 
• 1856[2]
94,858 km2 (36,625 sq mi)
History 
• Established
1593
• Disestablished
1864
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Rumelia Eyalet
Kefe Eyalet
Danube Vilayet
Edirne Eyalet

The Eyalet of Silistra or Silistria

Ottoman Turkish: ایالت اوزی; Eyālet-i Özi)[4] meaning Province of Ochakiv was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire along the Black Sea littoral and south bank of the Danube River in southeastern Europe. The fortress of Akkerman was under the eyalet's jurisdiction.[5] Its reported area in the 19th century was 71,140 square kilometres (27,469 sq mi).[6]

History

Silistra Eyalet, 1683

The Eyalet of Silistra was formed in 1593 as

Principality of Karvuna, later Dobruja, Silistra was originally the Silistra Sanjak of Rumelia Eyalet
.

It was named after Silistra, since its governor often resided in this Danubian fortress. Around 1599, it was expanded and raised to the level of an eyalet likely as a benefit to its first governor-general (beylerbeyi), the khan of Crimea.[citation needed] It was centered on the regions of Dobruja, Budjak (Ottoman Bessarabia), and Yedisan and included the towns of Varna, Kustendja (Constanța), Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi), and Khadjibey (Odesa) with its capital at the fortresses of Silistra (now in Bulgaria) or Özi (now Ochakiv in Ukraine).

In the 17th century, Silistra Eyalet was expanded to the south and west to include most of modern

Russo-Turkish Wars truncated the eyalet in the east with Russia eventually annexing all of Yedisan and Budjak to the Danube
by 1812.

Danube Vilayet
.

Administrative division

Evliya Çelebi mentioned in his book (Seyahatnâme) that the Silistra or Özi Eyalet had ten sanjaks:[8]

  1. Niğbolu Sanjak (Nikopol)
  2. Çirmen Sanjak (Ormenio)
  3. Vize Sanjak (Vize)
  4. Kırk Kilise Sanjak (Kırklareli)
  5. Bender Sanjak (Bender)
  6. Akkerman Sanjak (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi)
  7. Özi-Kale Sanjak (Ochakiv)
  8. Kılburun Sanjak (Kinburn)
  9. Doğan Sanjak (Beryslav)
  10. Silistre Sanjak (Silistra)

According to Sancak Tevcih Defteri, eyalet consisted of eight sanjaks between 1700 and 1730 as follows:[9]

  1. Sanjak of Özi (Paşa Sancağı, Dnieper), centered at Özi-Kale (Ochakiv)
  2. Sanjak of Silistre (Silistra)
  3. Sanjak of Vidin (Vidin)
  4. Sanjak of Niğbolu (Nikopol)
  5. Sanjak of Kırk Kilise (Kırklareli)
  6. Sanjak of Çirmen (Ormenio)
  7. Sanjak of Vize (Vize)
  8. Sanjak of Tağan Geçidi (Beryslav) (until 1699)

Sanjaks in the early 19th century:[10]

  1. Sanjak of Niğbolu
  2. Sanjak of Çirmen (after 1829, its capital was Edirne)
  3. Sanjak of Vize
  4. Sanjak of Kırk Kilise
  5. Sanjak of
    Akkerman, which was only a military command in Bilhorod (Akkerman) in the Budzhak
  6. Sanjak of Vidin

Beylerbeys

References

  1. ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial legislation, customs tariffs, of all nations. Including all British commercial treaties with foreign states. Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  2. ^ Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) (1856). Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World ... J.B. Lippincott. p. 1968. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  3. ^ Charles Knight (1867). The English Cyclopaedia: Geography. Bradbury, Evans. p. 111. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  4. ^ a b "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  5. ^ Conrad Malte-Brun; Adriano Balbi (1842). System of universal geography, founded on the works of Malte-Burn and Balbi... Adam and Charles Black. p. 607. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  6. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  7. ISBN 975-6782-09-9
    , p. 78. (in Turkish)
  8. ^ Evliya Çelebi; Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1834). Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century. Oriental Translation Fund. p. 92. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  9. ISBN 975-6782-09-9
    , pp. 92-93. (in Turkish)
  10. ^ George Long (1843). The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: v. 1-27. C. Knight. p. 393. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  11. ^ a b Kołodziejczyk 2011, p. 141.
  12. ^ Kołodziejczyk 2011, p. 171.

Bibliography

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