The Eyalet of Vidin ( ota, ایالت ویدین; Eyālet-i Vīdīn)
was an administrative territorial entity of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
located in the territory of present-day north-western
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
. It was formed in 1846 and its administrative centre was
Vidin
Vidin ( bg, Видин, ; Old Romanian: Diiu) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as ...
. It was incorporated into
Danube Province in 1864 and its sanjaks were reduced to townships except Vidin.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the Eyalet in the mid-19th century:
[ By James Henry Skene]
# Sanjak of
Tirnova
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Sanjak of Vidin
The Sanjak of Vidin or the Vidin Sanjak ( bg, Видински санджак, sr, Видински санџак, tr, Vidin Sancağı) was a sanjak in the Ottoman Empire, with Vidin as its administrative centre. It was established after the Batt ...
# Sanjak of
Lom
See also
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Ottoman Bulgaria
The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, from the conquest by the Ottoman Empire of the smaller kingdoms emerging from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire in the late 14th century, to the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. A ...
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Osman Pazvantoğlu
Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.
He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to r ...
References
{{Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman period in the history of Bulgaria
Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in Europe
States and territories established in 1846
1846 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
History of Vidin
1864 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire