Damascus Eyalet
| Eyalet-i Şam إيالة العرب | |||||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1517–1865 | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Damascus[1] | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Battle of Marj Dabiq | 1517 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1865 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Syria Lebanon Jordan Palestine Israel | ||||||||||||||
Damascus Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام; Eyālet-i Šām)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 51,900 square kilometres (20,020 sq mi).[3]
It became an eyalet after the Ottomans conquered it from the Mamluks in 1516.[4] Canbirdi Gazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus.[5]
The Damascus Eyalet was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Syria Vilayet.[6]
Governors
- Janbirdi al-Ghazali (1518–1521)
- Ahmad ibn Ridwan (1601–1607)
- Sulayman Pasha al-Azm (1733–1737; 1741–1743)
- As'ad Pasha al-Azm (1743–1757)
- Uthman Pasha al-Kurji (1760-1771)
- Abdullah Pasha al-Azm (1795-1798; 1799-1803; 1804–1807)
- Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha (October 1828 - July 1831)
- Mehmed Selim Pasha (1830–1831)
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Damascus Eyalet in the 17th century:[7]
- Khas sanjaks (i.e. yielded a land revenue):
- Sanjak of Jerusalem
- Sanjak of Gaza
- Sanjak of Karak
- Sanjak of Safet
- Sanjak of Nablus
- Sanjak of Ajloun
- Sanjak of Lejun
- Sanjak of Bokoa
- Salyane sanjaks (i.e. had an annual allowance from government):
References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 169, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
- ^ D. E. Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. p. 105. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. J. Perthes. 1867. pp. 827–829. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
- ^ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
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