eyalet

Ottoman administrative division

An eyalet was a major administrative division of the Ottoman Empire, roughly equivalent to a province, governed by a pasha or beylerbey.

The empire was organized into eyalets from the 14th century until reforms in the 1860s replaced them with smaller vilayets.

The eyalet of Egypt was among the empire's wealthiest provinces.

administration

pasha

Ottoman high official

beylerbeyOttoman regional administrator
governorshipState executive position
jurisdictionLegal authority's scope

administration · bureaucracy · provincial · subdivision · territory · boundary · taxation · census · regulation · oversight

ottoman

Sultan

Muslim royal title

Sublime PorteSultan's central administration
Suleiman the MagnificentOttoman Empire's greatest sultan
ConstantinopleHistoric Turkish metropolis

janissaries · divan · grand vizier · vizier · timar · millets · imperial · caliphate · sultanate

geography

Anatolia

Western Asian peninsula

BalkansSoutheastern European peninsula
BaghdadIraqi seat of government
DamascusSyrian seat of government

Cairo · Algiers · Tripoli · Mosul · Aleppo · Basra · Tunis · Levant · Bosphorus · Dardanelles

Categories

Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire, sultans, grand vizier, Constantinople, Suleiman
Balkan HistoryBalkans, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro
feudal landsfief, fiefdom, demesne, manor, barony
Ottoman Balkansbeylerbey, pashas, janissaries, timar system, Tanzimat reforms
Ottoman divisions
Ottoman militaryjanissaries, pasha, aga, agha, bey

Opposites

administrative hierarchy

eyaletSublime Porte

Sultan's central administration

imperial capital · central government · village · district · Constantinople

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