Dulkadir Eyalet

For other meanings, see Dulkadir.
Maraş Eyaleti
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
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 1521–1864 →
Dulkadir Eyalet in 1609
Capital Marash[1]
History
 - Established 1521
 - Disestablished 1864

Dulkadir Eyalet (Turkish: Zulkadriye Eyaleti ) or Marash Eyalet (Turkish: Maraş Eyaleti ) was a eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 77,352 square miles (200,340 km2).[2]

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History

The Dulkadirids were the last of the Anatolian emirates to yield to the Ottomans, managing to remain independent until 1521, and were not fully incorporated into the empire until 1530.[3]

Administrative divisions

Eyalet of Marash was consisted of four sanjaks between 1700 and 1740 as follows:[4]

  1. Sanjak of Marash (Paşa Sancağı , Kahramanmaraş)
  2. Sanjak of Malatya (Malatya)
  3. Sanjak of Aintab (Ayıntab Sansağı, Gaziantep)
  4. Sanjak of Kars-i Maraş (Kadirli)

See also

References

  1. ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor at Google Books
  2. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6 at Google Books
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
  4. ^ Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-09-9, pp. 93-94. (Turkish)
 
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