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Karaman Eyalet
Karaman Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت قرهمان, romanized: Eyālet-i Ḳaraman)[2] was one of the subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 30,463 square miles (78,900 km2).[3]
| ایالت قرهمان Eyālet-i Ḳaraman | |||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
| 1483–1864 | |||||
The Karaman Eyalet in 1609 | |||||
| Capital | Konya (1483-1522), (1562-1864),[1] Kayseri (1522-1562) | ||||
| History | |||||
| History | |||||
• Established | 1483 | ||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||
In 1468, the formerly independent principality of Karaman was annexed by the Ottomans; Mehmed II appointed his son Mustafa as governor of the new eyalet, with his seat at Konya.[4]
Administrative divisions
The eyalet consisted of seven sanjaks between 1700 and 1740:[5] Konya, Niğde, Kayseri, Kırşehir, Beyşehir, Aksaray, and Akşehir.
References
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ . Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ^ Imber, Colin (2002). (PDF). p. 179. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-26.
- ^ 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. 93. (in Turkish)
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