Tripoli Eyalet
Tripoli Eyalet Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām طرابلس الشام |
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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Tripoli Eyalet in 1609 | |||||
Capital | Tripoli[1] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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History | |||||
• | Established | 1579 | |||
• | Disestablished | 1864 | |||
Today part of | Lebanon Syria |
Tripoli Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طرابلس شام Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām;[2] Arabic: طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1,629 square miles (4,220 km2).[3]
It extended along the coast, from the southern limits of the Amanus mountains in the north, to the gorge of al-Muamalatayn to the south, which separated it from the territory of the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut.[4]
Along with the chiefly Sunni Muslim coastal towns of Latakia, Jableh, Baniyas, Tartus, Tripoli, Batrun and Byblos, the eyalet included the An-Nusayriyah Mountains, inhabited by Alawites, as well as the northern reaches of the Lebanon range, where the majority of inhabitants were Maronite Christians.[4]
History
Ottoman rule in the region began in 1516,[5] but the eyalet wasn't established until 1579, when it was created from the north-western districts of the eyalets of Damascus and Aleppo.[6] Previously, it had been an eyalet for a few months in 1521.[4]
From the time of the Ottoman conquest in 1516 until 1579, the affairs of the sanjak were under the control of the Turkoman ‘Assaf emirs of Ghazir in Kisrawan.[4] When the eyalet was reconstituted in 1579, a new Turkoman family was put in charge, the Sayfas, and they held power until the death of the family's patriarch, Yusuf, in 1625.[4] The Sayfas were frequently dismissed as governors, mainly for failing to meet their financial obligations to the state, rather than for being rebellious.[4]
From 1800–08, 1810–20 and 1821-35 the governor of the eyalet was Mustafa Agha Barbar.
Administrative divisions
Eyalet consisted of five sanjaks between 1700 and 1740 as follows:[7]
- Tripoli Sanjak (Trablus-Şam : Paşa Sancağı , Tripoli)
- Hama Sanjak (Hama Sancağı, Hama)
- Homs Sanjak (Hums Sancağı, Homs)
- Salamieh Sanjak (Selemiyye Sancağı, Salamiyah)
- Jebella Sanjak or Jebellieh Sanjak (Cebeliyye Sancağı, Jableh)
References
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- ↑ The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788, p. 38, at Google Books By Stefan Winter
- ↑ 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. 95. (Turkish)
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