Rakka Eyalet
| Eyalet-i Rakka | |||||
| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Urfa[1] | ||||
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| • | Established | 1586 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1864 | |||
| Today part of |  Syria Turkey |
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The eyalet of Rakka or Urfa[2] (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت رقه; Eyālet-i Raqqa)[3] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 24,062 square miles (62,320 km2).[2]
The eyalet was created in 1586 on territory previously under the jurisdiction of Diyarbekir.[4] In the 16th century, the town of ar-Raqqah again entered the historical record as an Ottoman customs post on the Euphrates. However, the capital of this eyalet and seat of the vali was not ar-Raqqah but ar-Ruha about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of ar-Raqqah.[5]
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of Rakka Eyalet in the 17th century:[6]
- Sanjak of Jemasa
- Sanjak of Kharpud
- Sanjak of Deir Rahba
- Sanjak of Beni Rebia (Rabi`ah?)
- Sanjak of Saruj
- Sanjak of Harran
- Sanjak of Rika (Rakka)
- Sanjak of Roha or Urfa, the seat of the Pasha
See also
References
- ↑ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books
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- ↑ The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman rule, 1516-1788, p. 38, at Google Books By Stefan Winter
- ↑ Stefan Winter, "The Province of Raqqa under Ottoman Rule, 1535-1800" in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68 (2009), 253-67.
- ↑ Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ..., Volume 1, p. 90, at Google Books By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
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