Egir Province, Ottoman Empire
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Egir Province (also known as Pashaluk of Egir or Eyalet of Egir; Ottoman Turkish: Eyâlet-i Egir, Modern Turkish: Eğri Eyaleti, Hungarian: Egri vilajet, Serbian: Jegarski vilajet or Јегарски вилајет) was an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire formed in 1596. It included parts of present-day Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. Capital of the Egir Province was Egir (Eger).
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[edit] Administrative divisions
The province included following sanjaks:
- Sanjak of Segedin (Szeged)
- Sanjak of Sonluk (Szolnok)
- Sanjak of Seçen (Szecseny)
- Sanjak of Hatvan
- Sanjak of Kerman
- Sanjak of Novigrad (Nograd)
- Sanjak of Filek (Filakovo)
[edit] Population
Population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Slovaks and Hungarians (living mainly in the north), Serbs (living mainly in the south), Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities) and others (Jews, Roma, etc).
[edit] References
- Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.
