Rakka Eyalet
| Eyalet-i Rakka | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1586–1864 | |||||||||
_Eyalet,_Ottoman_Empire_(1609)_Kopie.png) Rakka Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Urfa[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1586 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Syria Turkey | ||||||||
The eyalet of Rakka or Urfa[2] (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت رقه; Eyālet-i Raqqa)[3] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 24,062 square miles (62,320 km2).[2]
The eyalet was created in 1586 on territory previously under the jurisdiction of Diyarbekir.[4] In the 16th century, the town of ar-Raqqah again entered the historical record as an Ottoman customs post on the Euphrates. However, the capital of this eyalet and seat of the vali was not ar-Raqqah but ar-Ruha about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of ar-Raqqah.[5]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Rakka Eyalet in the 17th century:[6]
- Sanjak of Jemasa
- Sanjak of Kharpud
- Sanjak of Deir Rahba
- Sanjak of Beni Rebia (Rabi`ah?)
- Sanjak of Saruj
- Sanjak of Harran
- Sanjak of Rika (Rakka)
- Sanjak of Roha or Urfa, the seat of the Pasha
See also
References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ a b The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788, p. 38, at Google Books By Stefan Winter
- ^ Stefan Winter, "The Province of Raqqa under Ottoman Rule, 1535-1800" in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68 (2009), 253-67.
- ^ 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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