Basra Eyalet

See also: Al-Muntafiq
Arabic: إيالة البصرة
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1538–1862

The Basra Eyalet in 1609
CapitalBasra
History 
• Established
1538
• Disestablished
1862
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Safavid dynasty
Basra Vilayet
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]

History

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]

Administrative divisions

The eyalet of Basra consisted of the following sanjaks in 1702:[7]

  1. Sanjak of Basra (Seat of the Pasha)
  2. Sanjak of Kıyab
  3. Sanjak of Badiye
  4. Sanjak of Sabusne, Gaffât, Mensûr and Batna
  5. Sanjak of Seremle
  6. Sanjak of Şuş
  7. Sanjak of Gazan, Resle and Safiyye
  8. Sanjak of Ceğar

See also

References

  1. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  3. ^ a b 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. 90. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  4. ^ a b Gábor Ágoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  5. ^ "The Ottoman Turks and the Portuguese in the Arab Gulf 1534-1581" (PDF). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Reidar Visser (2005). Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism And Nationalism in Southern Iraq. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 19. ISBN 978-3-8258-8799-5. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  7. ^ Kılıç, Orhan (1997). 18. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin İdari Taksimatı-Eyalet ve Sancak Tevcihatı / In the First half of the 18th Century Administrative Divisions of the Ottoman Empire-Shire and Sanjak Assignments (in Turkish). Elazığ: Şark Pazarlama. p. 74. ISBN 9759630907.


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