Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire
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The Province of Bosnia was an Ottoman province, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as most of Slavonia, Lika and Dalmatia in present-day Croatia.
Between its establishment ca. 1520 and the administrative reform in 1864, it was called the Elayet of Bosnia or Pashaluk of Bosnia (Turkish: Bosna Paşalığı). After the reform, it was named the Vilayet of Bosnia (Bosnian: Vilajet Bosna, Turkish: Bosna Vilâyeti).
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After the execution of King Tomašević in 1463, the central part of the Kingdom of Bosnia was transformed into the sanjak of Bosnia. It took about a century for Ottomans to conquer the northern and western parts of today's Bosnia, and the first eyalet was formed in 1527. After 1580 Bosnia became a pashaluk divided into several sanjaks.
In the mid-17th century, at the peak of its size, the Bosnian pashaluk covered all of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as most of Slavonia, Lika and Dalmatia in present-day Croatia. It encompassed eight sanjaks and 29 captaincies (military outposts):
- sanjak of Požega (2 military captaincies)
- sanjak of Bosnia (7 captaincies)
- sanjak of Bihać (4 captaincies)
- sanjak of Krka-Lika (7 captaincies)
- sanjak of Klis (4 captaincies)
- sanjak of Herzegovina (4 captaincies)
- sanjak of Zvornik
- sanjak of Cernik
However, the Ottoman wars in Europe continued and the province significantly decreased in territory during the same century. After the Treaty of Karlowitz, the province was down to four sanjaks (three of them diminished in size as well) and twelve captaincies. Before the Treaty of Passarowitz, another 28 military captaincies were formed, more than half of them along the frontier. This kind of intensive military administration corresponded to the Austrian Military Frontier on the other side of the same border.
In 1833, territory of Herzegovina region was separated from the Pashaluk of Bosnia and was turned into the separate Pashaluk of Herzegovina, whose vizier was Ali-paša Rizvanbegović. After his death in 1851, pashaluks of Bosnia and Herzegovina were merged into new entity known as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[edit] Capitals
Province of Bosnia's capital city moved several times:
- Travnik in 1553[1]
- Banja Luka (Banyaluka or Banaluka) between 1553 and 1638 [2]
- Sarajevo (Saray Bosna) between 1639 and 1697[3]
- Travnik again between 1697[1] and 1833
- Sarajevo again between 1833 and 1839/40[4][5]
- Travnik again between 1839/40 and 1851[1]
- Sarajevo again from 1851 to 1878.[4][5]
[edit] See also
- History of Ottoman Bosnia
- History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1463–1878)
- Pashaluk of Herzegovina
- Sanjak of Novi Pazar
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[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b c Muharem Bazdulj (2002-03-01). "Travnik, poligon historije - Nimalo slučajan grad" (in Bosnian). BH Dani. http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/246/t24605.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Bosnia.html
- ^ Zlatko Lukić. "Boj pod Banjalukom (1737.)" (in Bosnian). http://www.camo.ch/bojpodbl.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ a b Aličić, Ahmed S. Uređenje bosanskog ejaleta od 1789. do 1878., Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 1983, p 35.
- ^ a b Šabanović, H. Bosanski pašaluk, ND BiH, Sarajevo, 1959.
[edit] Notations
- Markus Koller and Kemal H. Karpat, Ottoman Bosnia: A History in Peril, University of Wisconsin Press (2004) ISBN 0-299-20714-5
- Matija Mazuranic, A Glance into Ottoman Bosnia, Saqi Books (2007)
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