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At about the same time, the Tanzimat reforms, aimed at modernizing the Empire, split off the new eyalets of Üsküb, Yanya and Selanik and reduced the Rumelia Eyalet to a few provinces around Monastir. The rump eyalet survived until 1867, when, as part of the transition to the more uniform vilayet system, it became part of the Salonica Vilayet.
Yemen. The Yemen Eyalet [2] ( Arabic: إيالة اليمن; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت یمن, romanized : Eyālet-i Yemen) [3] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Although formally an integral part of the empire, the far-flung province was notoriously difficult to administer, and was often lawless.
Succeeded by. Despotate of Epirus. Kingdom of Greece. Principality of Albania. Today part of. Albania. Greece. The Sanjak of Ioannina (variously also Janina or Yanina, Ottoman Turkish: Sanjak-i Yanya) was a sanjak (second-level province) of the Ottoman Empire whose capital was Ioannina in Epirus .
Turkey portal. v. t. e. The Ottoman Empire was founded c. 1299 by Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Asia Minor just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In 1326, the Ottomans captured nearby Bursa, cutting off Asia Minor from Byzantine control.
Ottoman Crete. / 35.333°N 25.133°E / 35.333; 25.133. The island of Crete ( Ottoman Turkish: كریت, romanized : Girit) [3] was declared an Ottoman province ( eyalet) in 1646, after the Ottomans managed to conquer the western part of the island as part of the Cretan War, [4] but the Venetians maintained their hold on the capital ...
The Ottoman Empire conquered the Habesh (mostly covering the coastline of present-day Eritrea) starting in 1557, when Özdemir Pasha took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq (ruler of Midri Bahri). They administered this area as the province of Habesh.
Lahsa Eyalet. Lahsa Eyalet ( Arabic: إيالة الأحساء; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت لحسا, romanized : Eyālet-i Laḥsā) [1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The territory of the former eyalet is now part of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar. Al-Ahsa and Qatif were the main cities of the eyalet, and it was named after the former.
