Arabic: إيالة البصرة Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره | |||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
1538–1862 | |||||||||
The Basra Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
Capital | Basra | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1538 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1862 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Iraq |
Basra Eyalet ( Arabic: إيالة البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ) [1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km2). [2] It had a Defterdar and Kehiya of the Chavushes but neither Alai-beg nor Cheribashi because there were no ziamets or Timars, the lands being all rented by the governor. [3]
Basra had formerly a hereditary government ( mulkiat), but it was reduced to an ordinary eyalet when conquered by Sultan Mehmed IV. [3] In 1534, when the Ottomans captured Baghdad, Rashid al-Mughamis, the Bedouin emir who then controlled Basra, submitted to Ottomans. [4] Basra became an Ottoman province in 1538, [5] and an Ottoman governor was appointed by 1546. [4] The eyalet was later subordinated to Baghdad during the Mamluk dynasty of Iraq, and was separated from Baghdad again from 1850 to 1862. [6]
Arabic: إيالة البصرة Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره | |||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
1538–1862 | |||||||||
The Basra Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
Capital | Basra | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1538 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1862 | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Today part of | Iraq |
Basra Eyalet ( Arabic: إيالة البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ) [1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km2). [2] It had a Defterdar and Kehiya of the Chavushes but neither Alai-beg nor Cheribashi because there were no ziamets or Timars, the lands being all rented by the governor. [3]
Basra had formerly a hereditary government ( mulkiat), but it was reduced to an ordinary eyalet when conquered by Sultan Mehmed IV. [3] In 1534, when the Ottomans captured Baghdad, Rashid al-Mughamis, the Bedouin emir who then controlled Basra, submitted to Ottomans. [4] Basra became an Ottoman province in 1538, [5] and an Ottoman governor was appointed by 1546. [4] The eyalet was later subordinated to Baghdad during the Mamluk dynasty of Iraq, and was separated from Baghdad again from 1850 to 1862. [6]