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{{Infobox Former Subdivision
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|conventional_long_name = Sanjak of Inebahti<br>[[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]: ''Liva-i Inebahti''
|common_name            = Inebahti
|subdivision            = [[Sanjak]]
|nation                 = the [[Ottoman Empire]]
|year_start             = 1499
|event_start            = 
|event_end              = [[Greek War of Independence]]
|year_end               = 1821/1829
|date_end               = 
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|image_map              = SDUK - Turkey II. Containing the Northern Part of Greece.jpg
|image_map_caption  = Central Greece in the early 19th century, showing the sanjak of Inebahti ("Lepanto") in the lower image
|capital                = [[Naupaktos]] (Inebahti/Aynabahti, Lepanto)
|p1                     = Republic of Venice
|flag_p1                = Flag of Most Serene Republic of Venice.svg
|p2                     = Sanjak of Tirhala
|flag_p2                = Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1453-1844).svg
|s1                     = First Hellenic Republic
|flag_s1                = Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg
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|today                  = [[Greece]]
|footnotes              = 
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The '''Sanjak of Inebahti''' or '''Aynabahti''' ([[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]: ''Sancak-i/Liva-i İnebahtı/Aynabahtı''; {{langx|el|λιβάς/σαντζάκι Ναυπάκτου}}) was a second-level [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] province (''[[sanjak]]'' or ''[[Liwa (Arabic)|liva]]'') encompassing the central parts of [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Continental Greece]]. Its name derives from its capital, Inebahti/Aynabahti, the Turkish name for [[Naupaktos]], better known in English with its Italian name, '''Lepanto'''.<ref name="EI2">{{EI2 | volume=1 | title = Aynabakhti̊ | first = Franz | last = Babinger | authorlink = Franz Babinger | page = 790 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/aynabakhti-SIM_0918}}</ref>

== History ==
The province was formed in 1499, when the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] conquered Lepanto, which had been a possession of the [[Republic of Venice]] since 1407.<ref name="EI2"/> Much of the territory allocated to the new province, however, had already been under Ottoman control, under the [[Sanjak of Tirhala]]. 

On 7 October 1571, the famous [[Battle of Lepanto]] between the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the [[Holy League (1571)|Holy League]] was fought off the coast of the town of Lepanto.<ref name="EI2"/> The Venetians retook the town in 1687, during the [[Morean War]], but surrendered it to Turkish control in 1699, after the [[Treaty of Karlowitz]].<ref name="EI2"/> Although most of the province rose in revolt upon the outbreak of the [[Greek War of Independence]] in 1821, the capital Lepanto remained in Ottoman hands until 12 March 1829, when it came under Greek control.<ref name="EI2"/>

== Administrative division ==
Originally, the ''sanjak'' formed part of the [[Rumeli Eyalet]], but after 1533 it was subordinated to the new [[Eyalet of the Archipelago]].<ref name="Provinzen">{{Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches | pages = 53, 103}}</ref>

According to the 17th-century geographer [[Hajji Khalifa]], the province encompassed six ''[[kaza]]s'' ("districts"): Inebahti itself, Karavari ([[Kravara]]), Abukor ([[Apokouros]]), Olendirek/Olunduruk ([[Lidoriki]]), Gölhissar (Probably Limnochori) and Kerbenesh ([[Karpenisi]]).<ref name="Memoirs">{{cite book | title = Memoirs on the Ionian Islands, Considered in a Commercial, Political, and Military Point of View | last = de Vaudoncourt | first = Guillaume | publisher = Baldwin, Cradock and Joy | location = London | year = 1816 | url = https://archive.org/details/memoirsonionian00waltgoog | page = [https://archive.org/details/memoirsonionian00waltgoog/page/n181 161]}}</ref><ref name="HajjiKhalifa">{{cite book | title = Rumeli und Bosna, geographisch beschrieben, von Mustafa ben Abdalla Hadschi Chalfa. Aus dem Türkischen übersetzt von J. v. Hammer | location = Vienna | year = 1812 | publisher = Verlag des Kunst- und Industrie-Comptors | language = German | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DzsLAAAAIAAJ | pages = 125–127}}</ref>

Early 19th-century sources report that the ''sanjak'' at the time formed part of the [[Morea Eyalet]], and comprised again six ''kazas'': Inebahti, Abukor, Olendirek/Olunduruk, Gölhissar, Kerbenesh and Patracik ([[Ypati]]).<ref name="Jahrbücher">{{cite journal | journal = Jahrbücher der Literatur | volume = 49–50 | publisher = C. Gerold | location = Vienna | year = 1830 | title = Reisen ins Osmanische Reich | language = German | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3_0aAAAAYAAJ | page = 22}}</ref>

== References ==
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