Trebizond Eyalet

Eyalet-i Trabzon
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
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Trebizond Eyalet in 1609
Capital Trebizond[1]
History
 • Established 1598
 • Disestablished 1867

Trebizond Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طربزون; Eyālet-i Ṭrabzōn‎)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.

Established in 1598,[3] it remained a primarily Christian region into the 17th century, well after the rest of Anatolia had been converted to Islam.[3] Its reported area in the 19th century was 10,507 square miles (27,210 km2).[4]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of Trebizond Eyalet in the 17th century:[5]
  1. Sanjak of Gümüşhane
  2. Sanjak of Jankha (Canik?)
  3. Sanjak of Wiza
  4. Sanjak of Gunia
  5. Sanjak of Batumi
 Sanjaks in the early 19th century:[6]
  1. Sanjak of Trebizond
  2. Sanjak of Kerasun
  3. Sanjak of Lazistan

See also

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. 1 2 Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 146, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
  4. ↑ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
  6. ↑ System of universal geography founded on the works of Malte-Brun and Balbi — Open Library (p. 646)


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