Kars Eyalet
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Former Subdivision The Eyalet of Kars[1] (Template:Langx)[2] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was Script error: No such module "convert"..[3]
The town of Kars, which had been levelled to the ground by the Timur in 1386, was rebuilt as an Ottoman fortress in 1579 (1580 according to other sources) by Lala Mustafa Pasha, and became capital of an eyalet of six sanjaks and also a place of pilgrimage.[4] It was conquered by Shah Abbas in 1604 and rebuilt by the Turks in 1616.[4]
The size of the Kars garrison in 1640s was 1,002 Janissaries and 301 local recruits. Total 1,303 garrison.[5]
In 1845, the eyalet was dissolved and transferred to the Erzurum Eyalet.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Kars Eyalet in the 17th century:[6]
- Zarshad Sanjak (Arpaçay)
- Kechran Sanjak (Tunçkaya (Keçivan))
- Kaghizman Sanjak (Kağızman)
- Kars Sanjak, the seat of the Pasha
References
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- ↑ Template:Trim&pg=PA180 The penny cyclopædia, p. 180, at Google Books By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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- ↑ Template:Trim&pg=PA698 The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
- ↑ a b Template:Trim&pg=PA774 E.J. Brill's first encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, p. 774, at Google Books By M. Th. Houtsma
- ↑ Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700, Rhoads Murphey, 1999, p.226
- ↑ Template:Trim&pg=PA90 Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
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