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Basra Eyalet
IraqBasra Eyalet (
Arabic: إيالة البصرة,
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ) was an eyalet in Ottoman Iraq of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km). It had a Defterdar and Kehiya of the Chavushes but neither nor because there were no ziamets or Timars, the lands being all rented by the governor.