Temeşvar Province, Ottoman Empire

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Eyalet of Temeşvar
Eyalet of Temeşvar

The Province of Temeşvar or Eyalet-i Temeşvar was a first-level administrative unit (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire located in the Banat region of Central Europe. Besides Banat, the province also included area north of the Mureş River, part of the Crişana region. Its territory is now divided between Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.

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[edit] Name

The name of the province in Ottoman Turkish was Eyâlet-i Temeşvar or Eyâlet-i Tımışvar (Modern Turkish: Temeşvar Eyaleti or Tamışvar Eyaleti), in Romanian was Eialetul Timişoarei or Paşalâcul Timişoara, in Serbian was Темишварски ејалет or Temišvarski ejalet, and in Hungarian was Temesvári ejálet. The province was named after its administrative seat, Temeşvar.

[edit] History

The Eyalet of Temeşvar was formed in 1552, when the region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and existed until 1716, when it was conquered by the Habsburg Monarchy. The Eyalet was led by a vali (governor) or beylerbey (sometimes with position of pasha or vizir ), whose residence was at the former Hunyadi Castle in Temeşvar (Timişoara). In 1718, the Habsburgs formed a new province in this region, named the Banat of Temeswar.

The population of the province was mainly composed of Orthodox Christians (Serbs and Romanians) and its capital was Temeşvar (Timişoara), now in Romania.

[edit] Administrative divisions

[edit] 1552

The province had the greatest borders in 1552 and included following sanjaks:

[edit] 1660

Sanjaks of Varad, Logoş, Kacaş, Beşlek and Yanova were separated from the province and were transformed into Varad Eyalet in 1660.

[edit] Before 1699

Before the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, the province was divided into following sanjaks:

[edit] Beylerbeyleri (governors) of the Eyalet of Temeşvar

  • Kazim-beg (1552-1554).

[edit] References

  • Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.
  • Milan Tutorov, Banatska rapsodija, Novi Sad, 2001.

[edit] See also

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