Eyalet-i Adana
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1608–1865

The Adana Eyalet in 1609
CapitalAdana[1]
Area
 • Coordinates36°46′N 34°14′E / 36.76°N 34.23°E / 36.76; 34.23
History 
• Established
1608
• Disestablished
1865
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Aleppo Eyalet
Adana Vilayet
Today part ofTurkey

The Eyalet of Adana (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ادنه; Eyālet-i Adana)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, established in 1608,[3] when it was separated from the Eyalet of Aleppo.[4] Its reported area in the 19th century was 11,409 square miles (29,550 km2).[5]

History

The Ramadanids played a key role in 15th-century Ottoman-Mamluk relations, being a buffer state located in the Mamluk al-'Awasim frontier zone. In 1517, Selim I incorporated the beylik into the Ottoman Empire after his conquest of the Mamluk state. The beys of Ramadanids held the administration of the Ottoman sanjak of Adana in a hereditary manner until 1608.

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks between 1700 and 1740:[6]
  1. Adana Sanjak (Paşa Sancağı , Adana)
  2. Tarsus Sanjak (Tarsus)
  3. Sis Sanjak (Sis Sansağı, Kozan)
  4. Ichil Sanjak (İçil Sancağı or İçel Sancağı, Anamur-Silifke)
  5. Alaya Sanjak (Alâ'iyye Sancağı, Alanya)
 Sanjaks in the mid-19th century:[7]
  1. Adana Sanjak
  2. Tarsus Sanjak
  3. Alayeh Sanjak
  4. Sis Sanjak
  5. Piyas Sanjak (Payas?)
  6. Anemur Sanjak
  7. Selefkeh Sanjak

Sources

  1. ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  2. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ Donald Edgar Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire. Brill Archive. p. 125. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  4. ^ Evliya Çelebi; Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1834). Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1. Oriental Translation Fund. p. 93. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  5. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  6. ^ 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. (in Turkish)
  7. ^ The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. C. Knight. 1843. p. 393. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
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