| Sanjak of Avlona Sanxhaku i Vlorës | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjak ofOttoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1466–1912 | |||||||||
.svg) Flag .svg) Coat of arms | |||||||||
.svg) Sanjak of Avlona in the late 19th century | |||||||||
| Capital | InitiallyAvlonya, laterBerat | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Construction of Elbasan Castle | 1466 | ||||||||
| 1912 | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Today part of | Albania | ||||||||
TheSanjak of Avlona (Turkish:Avlonya Sancağı,Albanian:Sanxhaku i Vlorës; sometimes referred to as theSanjak of Berat because of its county town[1]) was one of thesanjaks of theOttoman Empire whosecounty town wasBerat inAlbania. It was established in 1466, after the construction of theElbasan Castle of the territory that belonged to the preceding Ottoman sanjak,Sanjak of Albania.
The territory of the Sanjak of Avlona extended between theShkumbin river to the north and theCeraunian Mountains to the south.[2]
This sanjak had twokazas: kaza ofBerat[3] and kaza ofValona.[4] Before the establishment of theSanjak of Delvina in the middle of the 16th century, the following towns (kazas) also belonged to the Sanjak of Avlona:Delvina,Gjirokastër,Myzeqe andLabëria.[5]
Valona was conquered by the Ottomans in June 1417.[6] In 1431, theSanjak of Albania was created out of areas in present-day western Albania.[7]
At the end of the 15th century, in order to stimulate trading, Ottomans settled small community ofSephardi Jews.[8]
Gedik Ahmed Pasha wassanjakbey of the Sanjak of Avlona in 1479.[9] Bali Bey, son of Yahya Pasha, became sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Avlona in 1506.[10] Mehmed Beg Isaković, son ofIsa-Beg Isaković, was appointed as sanjabey of Avlona in January 1516.[11] Muzaffer Pasha was sanjakbey of Avlona before he was appointed for the first governor ofCyprus in 1570, after Cyprus was captured by the Ottoman Empire.[12][13] Mustafa Pasha (Bin Abdullah), who had been on position of sanjakbey of Bosnia andMorea, was sanjakbey of Valona at the end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century.[14] Avlonya was captured by Venetians in 1690, but it was recaptured by Ottomans in 1691. In 1691, centre of sanjak was relocated to Berat and the sanjak was gradually named as Sanjak of Berat. Sari Ahmed Pasha was appointed as sanjakbey of Avlona at the end of 1712 and in the 1714 he was transferred to position ofbeglerbeg ofRumelia.[15] In the middle of the 18th century a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Avlona wasAhmet Kurt Pasha from theMuzaka family who was later appointed to the position ofderbendci aga (guardian of the mountain passes) which he held until the sultan appointed Ahmet's grandson,Ali Pasha Tepelena, instead of him.[16]
In 1809, the sanjakbey of the Avlona was Ibrahim Pasha.[17]
According toEqrem Vlora members of his family werede facto (notde jure) sanjakbeys of Sanjak of Avlona in period 1481—1828.[18] In 1834 Mahmood Hamdi pasha was appointed to govern theSanjak of Delvina,Yanina and Avlona.[19]
Ismail Kemal, the first prime minister of Albania, was elected a member ofOttoman parliament in December 1908 for the Sanjak of Berat.[20]
Ibrahim, an old infirm man, resided at Berat, and he is generally called pasha of Berat, but this is not correct, there being no sanjak of that name in Turkey
he sanjak or pashalik of Avlona, or Valona, extends over the most southern part of Albania, from the banks of the river Uskombin on the north, to the range of the Kimera mountains on the South.
the sandzak of Vlora included the regions Muzeqeja, Laberia (with Belgrad), Berat, Gjirokastra and Delvina.
Da bi potakla trgovinu, vlada je tu uspostavila malu židovsku koloniju od španjolskih izbjeglica (kraj15.st.)
Izgleda da je Bali beg, onaj sin Jahja pašin što je 1506. postao valonski sandžak (Truhelka, Tursko-slovjenski spomenici dubrovačkog arhiva, Sarajevo 1911, str. 129)
Mehmed-beg...Od siječnja 1516. bio je sandžak-beg Valone, a od listopada 1516. sandžak-beg Jeruzalema i Gaze. Nakon toga živio je u Sarajevu, gdje je podigao džamiju te prvi bezistan pokraj Kolobara hana
Immediately after the fall of Lefkosa (Nicosia) on September 9, 1570, the Ottoman administration was started to be established and Cyprus was deemed as a province and Muzaffer Pasha, the Sancak Beg of Avlonia, was appointed as the
Cyprus was made elayet ... with Muzaffer Pasha as the first Ottoman Governor
Во својата службена кариера тој бил санџак-бег во разни области, на пример: Босна, Морсја, Валона, Драч нтн., така што достигнал и до функцијата везир. ...Презименето во Мустафа Паша му било "bin Abdullah"
али су га Црногорци потукли на Цареву Лазу. Зато је, средином 1712, поново враћен под Хотин. Крајем исте године додељен му је санџак Валона, а затим Јањина и Скадар. Крајем 1714. премештен је за румелијског беглербега
In 1809...Ibrahim Pasha of Avlona... The pretext of this war was the secret negotiations which had been carried on between Ibrahim and the French, but the real object was the possession of the sanjak of Avlona, the most extensive in Albania, and which commands the entrance...
The members of his family held this position almost without interruption from 1481 to 1828, hereditarily not de jure, but de facto.
Mahmood Hamdi pasha confirmed to the sanjaks of Yanina, Delvina, and Avlonia
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Albanians under the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History |
| ||||||||||
| Geography | |||||||||||
| Society |
| ||||||||||
