Eğri Eyalet
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| Eyālet-i Egīr Egri ejálet Jegarski ejalet | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1596–1687 | |||||||||||
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.png) The Eğri Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Eğri (Hungarian: Eger) | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 47°53′N 20°22′E / 47.883°N 20.367°E | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1596 | |||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1687 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Hungary, Slovakia | ||||||||||
Eğri Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت اگیر; Eyālet-i Egīr,[1] Hungarian: Egri vilajet, Serbian: Jegarski ejalet or Јегарски ејалет) or Pashaluk of Eğri was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire formed in 1596 with its capital at Eğri (Hungarian: Eger). It included parts of present-day Hungary and Slovakia.
The population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Slovaks and Hungarians (living mainly in the north), Serbs (living mainly in the south), and Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities). Other ethnic communities included Jews and Romani.
Administrative divisions
[edit]The province included the following sanjaks:[2]
- Sanjak of Eğri (Eger)
- Sanjak of Segedin (Szeged)
- Sanjak of Sonluk (Szolnok)
- Sanjak of Seçen (Szécsény)
- Sanjak of Hatvan (Hatvan)
- Sanjak of Novigrad (Nógrád)
- Sanjak of Filek (Filakovo) (Its center was Rim Sonbat)
References
[edit]- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/19/1267/14566.pdf Macaristan'da Osmanlı Hakimiyetinin ve İdari Teşkilatının Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi, Sadık Müfit Bilge
- Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.
See also
[edit]Categories:
- States and territories established in 1596
- States and territories disestablished in 1687
- Ottoman period in Hungary
- Ottoman period in Slovakia
- Ottoman Serbia
- Ottoman history of Vojvodina
- Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in Europe
- 1596 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
- 1687 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire