The Sanjak of Inebahti or Aynabahti (

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

: ''Sancak-i/Liva-i İnebahtı/Aynabahtı''; el, λιβάς/σαντζάκι Ναυπάκτου) was a second-level Ottoman province (''

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian language, Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησι� ...

'' or '' liva'') encompassing the central parts of

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. Its name derives from its capital, Inebahti/Aynabahti, the Turkish name for

Naupaktos Nafpaktos ( el, Ναύπακτος) is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, situated on a bay on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, west of the mouth of the river Mornos. It is named for Naupaktos (, Latinize ...

, better known in English with its Italian name, Lepanto.

History

The province was formed in 1499, when the

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conquered Lepanto, which had been a possession of the

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since 1407. Much of the territory allocated to the new province, however, had already been under Ottoman control, under the

Sanjak of Tirhala The Sanjak of Tirhala or Trikala (Ottoman Turkish: ; el, λιβάς/σαντζάκι Τρικάλων) was second-level Ottoman province ( or ) encompassing the region of Thessaly. Its name derives from the Turkish version of the name of the town ...

. On 7 October 1571, the famous

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between the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League was fought off the coast of the town of Lepanto. The Venetians retook the town in 1687, during the

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, but surrendered it to Turkish control in 1699, after the

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. Although most of the province rose in revolt upon the outbreak of the

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in 1821, the capital Lepanto remained in Ottoman hands until 12 March 1829, when it came under Greek control.

Administrative division

Originally, the ''sanjak'' formed part of the

Rumeli Eyalet The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia ( ota, ایالت روم ایلی, ), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591, was a first-level province ('' beylerbeylik'' or '' eyalet'') of the Ottoman Empire encompassing most of the Balkans ( ...

, but after 1533 it was subordinated to the new

Eyalet of the Archipelago The Eyalet of the Archipelago ( ota, ایالت جزایر بحر سفید, ''Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd'', "Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea") was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire. From its inception until the ...

. According to the 17th-century geographer

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, the province encompassed six ''

kaza A kaza (, , , plural: , , ; ota, قضا, script=Arab, (; meaning 'borough') * bg, околия (; meaning 'district'); also Кааза * el, υποδιοίκησις () or (, which means 'borough' or 'municipality'); also () * lad, kaza , ...

s'' ("districts"): Inebahti itself, Karavari ( Kravara), Abukor ( Apokouros), Olendirek/Olunduruk (

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), Gölhissar (Probably Limnochori) and Kerbenesh (

Karpenisi Karpenisi ( el, Καρπενήσι, ) is a town in central Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit of Evrytania. Karpenisi is situated in the valley of the river Karpenisiotis (Καρπενησιώτης), a tributary of the Megdovas, in t ...

). Early 19th-century sources report that the ''sanjak'' at the time formed part of the

Morea Eyalet The Eyalet of the Morea ( ota, ایالت موره; Eyālet-i Mōrâ) was a first-level province (''eyalet'') of the Ottoman Empire, centred on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. History From the Ottoman conquest to the 17th century ...

, and comprised again six ''kazas'': Inebahti, Abukor, Olendirek/Olunduruk, Gölhissar, Kerbenesh and Patracik (

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Inebahti, Sanjak of Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire in Europe Ottoman Greece States and territories established in 1499 States and territories disestablished in the 1820s

Sanjak of Inebahti The Sanjak of Inebahti or Aynabahti ( Ottoman Turkish: ''Sancak-i/Liva-i İnebahtı/Aynabahtı''; el, λιβάς/σαντζάκι Ναυπάκτου) was a second-level Ottoman province (''sanjak'' or '' liva'') encompassing the central parts of ...

History of Aetolia-Acarnania History of Phocis 1499 establishments in the Ottoman Empire 1829 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire