Basra Eyalet ( ar, إيالة البصرة, ota, ایالت بصره, Eyālet-i Baṣrâ)
was an
eyalet of the
Ottoman Empire. 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
A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service. A ...
, the lands being all rented by the governor.
History
Basra had formerly a hereditary government (
mulkiat), but it was reduced to an ordinary
eyalet when conquered by Sultan
Mehmed IV.
In 1534, when the Ottomans
captured Baghdad,
Rashid al-Mughamis
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*Rashid (name), also Rachid and Rasheed, people with the given name or surname
* Rached, a given name and surname
*Rashad, a surname
Pla ...
, 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 Ctesiphon ...
during the
Mamluk dynasty of Iraq
The Mamluk dynasty of Mesopotamia ( ar, مماليك العراق, Mamālīk al-ʻIrāq) was a dynasty of Georgian Mamluk origin which ruled over Iraq in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
In the Ottoman Empire, Mamluks were freed slaves wh ...
, and was separated from Baghdad again from 1850 to 1862.
See also
*
Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701)
The Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701) took place between 26 March 1697 and 9 March 1701. It was the second time that the important Persian Gulf city had fallen to the Iranian Safavid Empire.
Basra, located in present-day Iraq, had alrea ...
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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