| Eyalet-i Selanik | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1826–1867 | |||||||||
 Flag | |||||||||
 The Salonica Eyalet in the 1850s | |||||||||
| Capital | Salonica[1] | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 40°39′N 22°54′E / 40.650°N 22.900°E | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1826 | ||||||||
• Transformation into vilayet | 1867 | ||||||||
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Salonica Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت سلانیك; Eyālet-i Selānīk)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Administrative divisions[edit]
Sanjaks of the Eyalet in the mid-19th century:[3]
- Sanjak of Tirhala (Trikala)
- Sanjak of Selanik (Thessalonica)
- Sanjak of Siroz (Serres)
- Sanjak of Drama
Governors[edit]
Governors of the eyalet:[4]
- Mehmed Hasib Pasha (September 1839 - February 1840)
- Mehmed Emin Pasha (February 1840 - July 1840)
- Kizilhisarli ömer Pasha (July 1840 - July 1843)
- Sirozlu Ibrahim Pasha (July 1843 - October 1843)
- Gürcü Mehmed Vasif Pasha (October 1843 - September 1845)
- Gümrükcü Mehmed Salih Pasha (September 1845 - April 1846)
- Kara Osmanzade Yaqub Pasha (April 1846 - May 1847)
- Dede Mustafa Hifzi Pasha (May 1847 - September 1848)
- Egribozlu Ebubekir Sami Pasha (September 1848 - August 1849)
- Cihan Seraskeri Hasan Riza Pasha (August 1849 - July 1850)
- Kara Osmanzade Yakub Pasha (July 1850 - November 1851)
- Celalatzade/Evrenoszade Yusuf Siddiq Mehmed Pasha (November 1851 - May 1853)
- Gümrükcü Mehmed Salih Pasha (May 1853 - July 1853)
- Ebubekir Rüstem Pasha (August 1853 - February 1854)
- Bosnakzade Mehmed Reshid Pasha (February 1854 - July 1854)
- Arnavud Mazhar Osman Pasha (July 1854 - September 1855)
- Sirkatibi Mustafa Nuri Pasha (September 1855 - May 1856)
- Ahmed Nazir Pasha (May 1856 - May 1857)
- Abdi Pasha (1857)
- Yozgatli Mehmed Vecihi Pasha (October 1857 - September 1858)
- Mirza/Tatar Mehmed Said Pasha (November 1858 - August 1859)
- Tepedelenlizade Ismail Rahmi Pasha (August 1859 - January 1860)
- Arnavud Mehmet Akif Pasha (1st time) (January 1860 - January 1865)
- Huseyin Hüsnü Pasha (January 1865 - December 1866)
- Ahmed Ala Bey (1867)
References[edit]
- ^ The English Cyclopaedia: Geography By Charles Knight
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The three eras of Ottoman history, a political essay on the late reforms of ..., p. 75, at Google Books By James Henry Skene
- ^ World Statesmen — Greece