Tripoli Eyalet

Coordinates: 34°26′N 35°51′E / 34.433°N 35.850°E / 34.433; 35.850
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For the Ottoman province in Libya sharing the same name, see Ottoman Tripolitania.
Tripoli Eyalet
Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām
طرابلس الشام
the Ottoman Empire
1579–1864
Flag of Tripoli Eyalet
Flag

The Tripoli Eyalet in 1609
CapitalTripoli[1]
Area
 • Coordinates34°26′N 35°51′E / 34.433°N 35.850°E / 34.433; 35.850
History 
• Established
1579
• Disestablished
1864
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Damascus Eyalet
Aleppo Eyalet
Beirut Vilayet
Syria Vilayet
Today part ofLebanon
Syria

Tripoli Eyalet (

Arabic: طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli, Lebanon. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1,629 square miles (4,220 km2).[3]

It extended along the coast, from the southern limits of the

Maameltein to the south, which separated it from the territory of the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut.[4]

Along with the chiefly Sunni Muslim and Maronite Christian coastal towns of

Maronite Christians.[4]

History

Ottoman rule in the region began in 1516,

Aleppo.[6] Previously, it had been an eyalet for a few months in 1521.[4]

From the time of the Ottoman conquest in 1516 until 1579, the affairs of the sanjak were under the control of the

Turkoman ‘Assaf emirs of Ghazir in Kisrawan.[4] When the eyalet was reconstituted in 1579, a new Turkoman family was put in charge, the Sayfas, and they held power until the death of the family's patriarch, Yusuf, in 1625.[4] The Sayfas were frequently dismissed as governors, mainly for failing to meet their financial obligations to the state, rather than for being rebellious.[4]

From 1800 to 1808, 1810–20 and 1821–35 the governor of the eyalet was Mustafa Agha Barbar.

Administrative divisions

Eyalet consisted of five sanjaks between 1700 and 1740 as follows:[7]

  1. Tripoli Sanjak (Trablus-Şam : Paşa Sancağı, Tripoli)
  2. Hama Sanjak (Hama Sancağı, Hama
    )
  3. Homs Sanjak (Hums Sancağı, Homs)
  4. Salamieh Sanjak (Selemiyye Sancağı, Salamiyah)
  5. Jebella Sanjak or Jebellieh Sanjak (Cebeliyye Sancağı, Jableh)

References

  1. ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
  2. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-1-86064-856-4
    . Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7
    . Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  6. ^ The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788, p. 38, at Google Books By Stefan Winter
  7. ISBN 975-6782-09-9
    , p. 95. (in Turkish)
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