Basra Eyalet ( ar, إيالة البصرة, ota, ایالت بصره, Eyālet-i Baṣrâ)
was an
eyalet
Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, , English: State), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman local governmen ...
of the
Ottoman Empire
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. Its reported area in the 19th century was . It had a
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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.
History
Basra had formerly a hereditary government (
mulkiat), but it was reduced to an ordinary
eyalet
Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, , English: State), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman local governmen ...
when conquered by Sultan
Mehmed IV
Mehmed IV ( ota, محمد رابع, Meḥmed-i rābi; tr, IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693) also known as Mehmed the Hunter ( tr, Avcı Mehmed) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the ...
.
In 1534, when the Ottomans
captured Baghdad,
Rashid al-Mughamis, the Bedouin emir who then controlled Basra, submitted to Ottomans.
Basra became an Ottoman province in 1538,
and an Ottoman governor was appointed by 1546.
The eyalet was later subordinated to
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...
during the
Mamluk dynasty of Iraq, and was separated from Baghdad again from 1850 to 1862.
See also
*
Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701)
References
Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in Asia
Ottoman Iraq
1538 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
1862 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire
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