Sanjak of Karasi
| Karasi Sanjak Karesi Sancağı | |||||
| sanjak[1] of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Karasi | ||||
| Government | Sanjak of Ottoman Empire | ||||
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| - | Established | 1341 | |||
| - | Treaty of Lausanne | 29 October 1923 | |||
Karasi Sanjak, (Turkish: Karesi Sancağı ; c. 1341 - 1922) was one of the first sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire established around 1341 and disestablished after signing the Treaty of Lausanne.
References
- ↑ Setton, Kenneth; Harry W. Hazard, Norman P. Zacour (1989), A history of the crusades : Volume VI: The impact of the crusades on Europe, Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 229, ISBN 978-0-299-10740-6, OCLC 475548809,
Immediately after the first conquests in Karasi, the area was made into an Ottoman uj (frontier) sanjak with Biga (Pegae) as its center, under the leadership of Suleiman Pasha, an ardent advocate of frontier warfare (ghaza),