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Tripoli Eyalet

Ottoman province (1579-1864)

Summary

Ottoman province (1579-1864)

FieldValue
native_nameEyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām
طرابلس الشام
conventional_long_nameTripoli Eyalet
common_nameTripoli Eyalet
subdivisionEyalet
nationthe Ottoman Empire
year_start1579
year_end1864
p1Damascus Eyalet
flag_p1Ottoman Flag.svg
p2Aleppo Eyalet
flag_p2Ottoman Flag.svg
s1Beirut Vilayet
flag_s1Ottoman Flag.svg
s2Syria Vilayet
image_flagOttoman Flag.svg
image_mapTripoli Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (1609).png
image_map_captionThe Tripoli Eyalet in 1609
capitalTripoli
coordinates
todayLebanon
Syria

طرابلس الشام Syria Tripoli Eyalet (; ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli, Lebanon. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1629 sqmi.

It extended along the coast, from the southern limits of the Amanus mountains in the north, to the gorge of Maameltein to the south, which separated it from the territory of the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut.

Along with the chiefly Sunni Muslim and Maronite Christian coastal towns of Latakia, Jableh, Baniyas, Tartus, Tripoli, Batrun and Byblos, the eyalet included the Wadi al-Nasara valley (the Valley of the Christians), the An-Nusayriyah Mountains, inhabited by Alawites, as well as the northern reaches of the Lebanon range, where the majority of inhabitants were Maronite Christians.

History

Ottoman rule in the region began in 1516, but the eyalet wasn't established until 1579, when it was created from the north-western districts of the eyalets of Damascus and Aleppo. Previously, it had been an eyalet for a few months in 1521.

From the time of the Ottoman conquest in 1516 until 1579, the affairs of the sanjak were under the control of the Turkoman ‘Assaf emirs of Ghazir in Kisrawan. When the eyalet was reconstituted in 1579, a new Turkoman family was put in charge, the Sayfas, and they held power until the death of the family's patriarch, Yusuf, in 1625. The Sayfas were frequently dismissed as governors, mainly for failing to meet their financial obligations to the state, rather than for being rebellious.

From 1800 to 1808, 1810–20 and 1821–35 the governor of the eyalet was Mustafa Agha Barbar.

Administrative divisions

The Eyalet had seven sanjaks in the 17th century, according to Evliya Çelebi:

  1. Tripoli Sanjak
  2. Hama Sanjak
  3. Homs Sanjak
  4. Salamieh Sanjak (Salamiyah)
  5. Jebella Sanjak (Jableh)
  6. Latakia Sanjak (Latakia)
  7. Husnabad Sanjak (Al-Husn)
  • The province also had forty Druze beys who controlled their territory in the mountains (Emirate of Mount Lebanon)

Eyalet consisted of five sanjaks between 1700 and 1740 as follows:

  1. Tripoli Sanjak (*Trablus-Şam *: Paşa Sancağı, Tripoli)
  2. Hama Sanjak (Hama Sancağı, Hama)
  3. Homs Sanjak (Hums Sancağı, Homs)
  4. Salamieh Sanjak (Selemiyye Sancağı, Salamiyah)
  5. Jebella Sanjak or Jebellieh Sanjak (Cebeliyye Sancağı, Jableh)

References

References

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  2. "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de.
  3. (1862). "The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon". Blackie.
  4. Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn. (2004). "The View from Istanbul: Ottoman Lebanon and the Druze Emirate". I.B.Tauris.
  5. (2009-01-01). "Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire". Infobase Publishing.
  6. {{Google books. KGeuAeFFJCEC. The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788 By Stefan Winter
  7. (1834). "Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century". Oriental Translation Fund.
  8. 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 lang. tr
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