Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire

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Vilajet Bosna Bosna Vilâyeti Province of Bosnia ← 1580–1864 → Ottoman Province of Bosnia in 1606 Capital Sarajevo (1580-1583), Banja Luka (1583-1686), Travnik (1686-1851), Sarajevo (1851-1864) Language(s) Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Religion Islam Government Monarchy King  - 1580-1588 Sokollu Mehmet Bey  - 1861-1864 Şerif Topal Osman Paşa History  - Established 1580  - Disestablished 1864 Currency Akçe

The Province of Bosnia or Pashaluk of Bosnia (Bosnian: Vilajet Bosna Turkish: Bosna Vilâyeti or Bosna Paşalığı) was a key Ottoman province, the westernmost one, 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.

[edit] History

During the Ottoman times it was both a single sanjak, and after 1580 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 first center was Travnik between 1580 and 1833 and again between 1839/40 and 1851. Other centers were Banjaluka (Banyaluka or Banaluka) between 1553 and 1638 ^[1], and Sarajevo (Saray Bosna) between 1833 and 1839/40 and again from 1851 to 1878.^[2][3]

[edit] See also

• History of Ottoman Bosnia
• Bosniaks during Ottoman times
• Pashaluk of Herzegovina
• Sanjak of Novi Pazar

[edit] External links

• Map by jqvaraderey
• Map (2)

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Bosnia.html
2. ^ Aličić, Ahmed S. Uređenje bosanskog ejaleta od 1789. do 1878., Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 1983, p 35.
3. ^ Šabanović, H. Bosanski pašaluk, ND BiH, Sarajevo, 1959.

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