| Arabic:إيالة البصرة Ottoman Turkish:ایالت بصره | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1538–1862 | |||||||||
.png) The Basra Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Basra | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1538 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1862 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Iraq | ||||||||
Basra Eyalet (Arabic:إيالة البصرة,Ottoman Turkish:ایالت بصره,romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ)[1] was aneyalet of theOttoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km2).[2] It had aDefterdar andKehiya of theChavushes but neitherAlai-beg norCheribashi because there were noziamets orTimars, the lands being all rented by the governor.[3]
Basra had formerly a hereditary government (mulkiat), but it was reduced to an ordinaryeyalet when conquered by SultanMehmed IV.[3] In 1534, when the Ottomanscaptured Baghdad,Rashid al-Mughamis, the Bedouin emir who then controlled Basra, submitted to Ottomans.[4] Basra became an Ottoman province in 1538,[5] and an Ottoman governor was appointed by 1546.[4] The eyalet was later subordinated toBaghdad during theMamluk dynasty of Iraq, and was separated from Baghdad again from 1850 to 1862.[6]
The eyalet of Basra consisted of the following sanjaks in 1702:[7]
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