| Eyālet-i Edirne Еялет Адрианопол Εγιαλέτ της Αδριανούπολης | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1826–1867 | |||||||||||
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The Adrianople Eyalet in the 1850s | |||||||||||
| Capital | Edirne | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 41°40′N26°34′E / 41.667°N 26.567°E /41.667; 26.567 | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1844 | 1,200,000[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1826 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1867 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||||
TheEyalet of Adrianople orEdirne[2] orÇirmen[3] (Ottoman Turkish:ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne)[4] was constituted from parts of the eyalets ofSilistra andRumelia in 1826.
It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become avilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into theVilayet of Adrianople.[5]
The eyalet comprised almost all of the historical geographical region ofThrace, and comprised the following subdivisions (sanjaks orlivas):[3][6]
Thesanjaks were further subdivided into 50kazas or prefectures.[3]
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