Eyalet

**Eyalets**, also known as **beylerbeyliks**, were special regions of the Ottoman Empire that were somewhat self governing, but were still officially parts of the Ottomans. More and more eyalets were made as the Ottomans expanded. Eyalets were divided into smaller districts called livas or sanjaks.

## List of Eyalets

|width="20%"|Eyalet Name|width="20%"|Ottoman Turkish and in brackets Modern Turkish|width="15%"|Existed for|width="45%"|Notes|
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|Abkhazia|Abhazya|? years (1578–?)|also called Sukhum [Sohumkale] or Georgia [Gürcistan] and included Mingrelia and Imeretia as well as modern Abkhazia|||||
|Akhaltsikhe|Ahıska|? years (1603–?)|either split from Samtskhe or existed at the same time|||||
|Dagestan|Dağıstan|? years (1578–?)|also called Demirkapı – assigned a serdar [chief] rather than a beylerbeyi|||||
|Dmanisi|Tumanis|? years (1584–?)||||||
|Ganja|Gence|years (1588–1604)||||||
|Gori|Gori|? years (1588–?)|probably replaced Tiflis after 1586|||||
|Győr|Yanık|0 years (1594–1598)||||||
|Ibrim|Ìbrīm|01 year (1584-1585)|short lived promotion of the sanjak of Ibrim|||||
|Kakheti|Kaheti|? years (1578–?)|Kakhetian king was appointed hereditary bey|||||
|Lazistan|Lazistān|? years (1574–?)||||||
|Lorri|Lori|? years (1584–?)||||||
|Nakhichevan|Nahçivan|1 year (1603 only)|possibly never separate from Yerevan|||||
|Poti|Faş|? years (1579–?)|may have also been another name for Trabzon|||||
|Sanaa|San'a|years (1567–1569)|temporary division of Yemen|||||
|Shemakha|Şamahı|1 year (1583 only)|may have also been another name for Shervan|||||
|Szigetvár|Zigetvar|years (1596–1600)|later transferred to Kanizsa|||||
|Shervan|Şirvan|years (1578–1604)|overseen by a serdar [chief] rather than a beylerbeyi|||||
|Tabriz|Tebriz|years (1585–1603)||||||
|Tiflis|Tiflis|0 years (1578–1586)|probably replaced by Gori after 1586|||||
|Wallachia|Eflak|2 months (September–October 1595)|the rest of the time Wallachia was a separate autonomous principality|||||
|Yerevan|Erivan|years (1583–1604)|sometimes also included Van|||||
|Zabid|Zebit|years (1567–1569)|temporary division of Yemen|||||
|Habesh|Habeş|years (1554–1867)|Included areas on both sides of the Red Sea. Also called "Mecca and Medina"|||||
|Adana|_Ażana_ (Adana)|years (1608–1865)||||||
|Archipelago|Cezayir-i Bahr-i Sefid|years (1535–1864)|Domain of the Kapudan Pasha (Lord Admiral); Also called Denizi or Denizli, later Vilayet of the Archipelago|||||
|Aleppo|_Ḥaleb_ (Halep)|years (1534–1864)||||||
|Algiers|_Cezâyîr-i Ġarb_ (Cezayir Garp, Cezayir)|years (1517–1830)||||||
|Anatolia|Anadolu|years (1393–1841)|Second Eyalet|||||
|Baghdad|_Baġdâd_ (Bağdat)|years (1535–1861)|Until the Treaty of Zuhab (1639), Ottoman rule was not consolidated.|||||
|Basra|_Baṣra_ (Basra)|years (1538–1862)||||||
|Bosnia|Bosna|years (1580–1864)||||||
|Budin|Budin|years (1541–1686)||||||
|Kıbrıs|_Ḳıbrıṣ_ (Kıbrıs)|0 years (1571-1660; 1745-1748)||||||
|Diyarbekir|_Diyârbekir_ (Diyarbakır)|305 years (1541–1846)||||||
|Eger|_Egir_ (Eğri)|0 years (1596–1661)||||||
|Egypt|_Mıṣır_ (Mısır)|years (1517–1867)||||||
|Erzurum|Erzurum|years (1533–1867)||||||
|Al-Hasa|Lahsa|years (1560–1670)|Seldom directly ruled|||||
|Kefe (Theodosia)|Kefe|years (1568–1774)||||||
|Kanizsa|Kanije|0 years (1600–1686)||||||
|Karaman|Karaman|years (1483–1864)||||||
|Kars|Kars|years (1580–1875)|Until the Treaty of Zuhab (1639), Ottoman rule was not consolidated. Bounded to Erzurum Eyalet in 1875.|||||
|Dulkadir|Maraş, Dulkadır|years (1522–1864)||||||
|Mosul|Musul|years (1535–1864)|Until the Treaty of Zuhab (1639), Ottoman rule was not consolidated.|||||
|Ar-Raqqah|Rakka|years (1586–1864)||||||
|Rumelia|Rumeli|years (1365–1867)|First Eyalet|||||
|Childir|Çıldır|years (1578–1845)|Also called Meskheti, later possibly coextensive with Akhaltsikhe (Ahıska) Province. Most of eyalet passed to Russia in 1829. Remained parts of eyalet bounded to Erzurum in 1845.|||||
|Shahrizor|Şehrizor|years (1554–1686)|Also Shahrizor, Sheherizul, or Kirkuk. In 1830, this eyalet bounded to Mosul province as Kirkuk sanjak.|||||
|Silistria|Silistre|years (1593–1864)|Later sometimes called Ochakiv (Özi); First beylerbeyi was the Crimean khan|||||
|Sivas|Sivas|years (1398–1864)||||||
|Syria|Şam|years (1517–1865)||||||
|Temeşvar|Tımışvar (Temeşvar)|years (1552–1716)||||||
|Trebizond, Lazistan|Trabzon|years (1461–1864)||||||
|Tripoli (Tripoli-in-the-East)|Trablus-ı Şam (Trablusşam)|years (1579–1864)||||||
|Tripolitania (Tripoli-in-the-West)|Trablus-ı Garb (Trablusgarp)|years (1551–1864)||||||
|Tunis|Tunus|years (1524–1864)||||||
|Van|Van|years (1548–1864)||||||
|Yemen|Yemen|years (1517–1636; 1849–1872)||||||
|Crete|Girid|years (1669–1867)||||||
|Morea|Mora|years (1620–1687) and (1715–1829)|originally part of Aegean Archipelago Province|||||
|Podolia|Podolya|years (1672–1699)|overseen by several serdars (marshals) rather than by beylerbeyi (governors)|||||
|Sidon|Sayda|years (1660–1841)||||||
|Uyvar|Uyvar|years (1663–1685)||||||
|Varad|Varad|years (1661–1692)||||||
|Monastir|Manastır|years (1826–1864)||||||
|Salonica|Selanik|years (1826–1864)||||||
|Aidin|Aydın|years (1826–1864)||||||
|Ankara|Ankara|years (1827–1864)||||||
|Kastamonu|Kastamonu|years (1827–1864)||||||
|Herzegovina|Hersek|years (1833–1851)||||||
|Hüdavendigâr|Hüdavendigâr|years (1841–1867)||||||
|Karasi|Karesi|years (1845–1847)||||||
|Niš|Niş|years (1846–1864)||||||
|Kurdistan|Kurdistan|21 years (1846–1867)||||||
|Vidin|Vidin|years (1846–1864)||||||