Vidin Eyalet
| Eyalet-i Vidin | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1846–1864 | |||||||||
 Vidin Eyalet in the 1850s | |||||||||
| Capital | Widdin[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1846 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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The Eyalet of Widdin (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ویدین; Eyālet-i Vīdīn)[2] was an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire located in the territory of present-day north-western Bulgaria. It was formed in 1846 and its administrative centre was Vidin. It was incorporated into Danube Province in 1864 and its sanjaks were reduced to townships except Vidin.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the Eyalet in the mid-19th century:[3]
- Sanjak of Tirnova
- Sanjak of Vidin
- Sanjak of Lom
See also
References
- ^ The New American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general ..., Volume 16, p. 413, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The three eras of Ottoman history, a political essay on the late reforms of ..., p. 75, at Google Books By James Henry Skene