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Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517. The Ottomans administered Egypt as a province ( eyalet ) of their empire ( Ottoman Turkish : ایالت مصر , romanized : Eyālet-i Mıṣr ).
Eyalet. Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1692, divided into Beylerbeyliks, Protectorates and tributary states. by Guillaume Sanson (1633–1703). Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, pronounced [ejaːˈlet], lit. 'state' ), also known as beylerbeyliks [1] or pashaliks, were the primary administrative divisions of ...
Egypt (Arabic: مصر Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt from 1517 to 1805 were at various times known by different but synonymous titles, among them beylerbey, viceroy, governor, governor-general, or, more generally, wāli.
Eyalets, also known as beylerbeyliks, were special regions of the Ottoman Empire that were somewhat self governing, but were still officially parts of the Ottomans. More and more eyalets were made as the Ottomans expanded. Eyalets were divided into smaller districts called livas or sanjaks.
The Eyalet of Egypt (Arabic: إيالة مصر, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت مصر) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the absorption of Syria into the Empire in ...
