Aleppo Eyalet
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Aleppo Eyalet was a eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. After the Ottoman conquest it was governed from Damascus, but by 1534 Aleppo was made the capital of a new eyalet.[2] Its reported area in the 19th century was 8,451 square miles (21,890 km2).[3] Its capital, Aleppo, was the third largest city of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th and 17th century.[2]
Administrative divisions
The Eyalet consisted of five sanjaks between 1690 and 1740 as follows:[4]
- Sanjak of Haleb (Paşa Sancağı , Aleppo)
- Sanjak of Maura (Ma'arra Sancağı (Ma`arrat an-Nu`man)
- Sanjak of Balis (Balis Sansağı )
- Sanjak of Uzeyr (Uzeyr Sancağı, Payas)
- Sanjak of Kilis (Kilis)
Gallery
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Vilayet of Aleppo in 1855
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Province of Aleppo in 1600
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References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor at Google Books
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6 at Google Books
- ^ Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-09-9, p. 94. (Turkish)
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