{{Short description|Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1393 to 1841}} {{Infobox former subdivision | native_name = {{lang|ota|ایالت آناطولی}}<br/>{{lang|ota-Latn|Eyālet-i Anaṭolı}} | common_name = Anatolia Eyalet | subdivision = [[Eyalet]] | nation = the Ottoman Empire | year_start = 1393 | year_end = 1841 | date_start = | date_end = | event_start = | event_end = | p1 = Ottoman emirate | flag_p1 = | p2 = Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty | flag_p2 = Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century.svg | s1 = Aydin Eyalet | flag_s1 = | s2 = Ankara Eyalet | flag_s2 = | s3 = Hüdavendigâr Eyalet | flag_s3 = | s4 = Kastamonu Eyalet | flag_s4 = | image_flag = Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg | flag_type = | image_coat = | image_map = Anatolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (1609) Kopie.png | image_map_caption = The Anatolia Eyalet in 1609 | capital = [[Ankara]], [[Kütahya]] | coordinates = {{Coord|39.1438|28.8080|display=inline,title}} | today = {{Flag|Turkey}} | stat_year1 = | stat_area1 = | stat_pop1 = | stat_year2 = | stat_area2 = | stat_pop2 = | footnotes = | demonym = }} The '''Eyalet of Anatolia''' ({{langx|ota|ایالت آناطولی|Eyālet-i Anaṭolı}})<ref name=someprov>{{cite web|title=Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire|url=http://www.geonames.de/coutr-ota-provinces.html|publisher=Geonames.de|access-date=25 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180044/http://www.geonames.de/coutr-ota-provinces.html|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> was one of the two core provinces ([[Rumelia Eyalet|Rumelia]] being the other) in the early years of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. It was established in 1393.<ref name="otm-enc">{{Google books|QjzYdCxumFcC|page=14|Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire}} By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters</ref> Its capital was first [[Ankara]] in central Anatolia, but then moved to [[Kütahya]] in western Anatolia. Its reported area in the 19th century was {{convert|65804|sqmi|km2}}.<ref>{{Google books|zSNUAAAAYAAJ|The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6|page=698}}</ref>
The establishment of the province of Anatolia is held to have been in 1393, when Sultan [[Bayezid I]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1389–1402) appointed [[Kara Timurtash]] as ''beylerbey'' and viceroy was in Anatolia, during Bayezid's absence on campaign in Europe against [[Mircea I of Wallachia]].<ref name="EI2-beylerbey">{{cite encyclopedia | article = Beglerbegī | first = V. L. | last = Ménage | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume I: A–B | publisher = BRILL | location = Leiden and New York | year = 1986 | isbn = 90-04-08114-3 | pages = 1159–1160}}</ref><ref name="EI2-eyalet">{{cite encyclopedia | article = Eyālet | first = Halil | last = İnalcık | author-link = Halil İnalcık | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume II: C–G | publisher = BRILL | location = Leiden and New York | year = 1991 | isbn = 90-04-07026-5 | pages = 721–724 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/eya-let-SIM_2216}}</ref> The province of Anatolia—initially termed ''beylerbeylik'' or generically ''vilayet'' ("province"), only after 1591 was the term ''[[eyalet]]'' used<ref name="EI2-eyalet"/>—was the second to be formed after the [[Rumelia Eyalet]], and ranked accordingly in the hierarchy of the provinces.<ref name="Provinzen115">{{cite book | title = Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches | series = Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients | volume = 13 | last = Birken | first = Andreas | language = de | publisher = Reichert | year = 1976 | isbn = 9783920153568 | page = 115}}</ref> The first capital of the province was [[Ankara]], but in the late 15th century it was moved to [[Kütahya]].<ref name="Provinzen115"/>
As part of the [[Tanzimat reforms]], the Anatolia Eyalet was dissolved {{circa|1841}} and divided into smaller provinces, although various scholars give conflicting dates for the dissolution, from as early as 1832 to as late as 1864.<ref name="Provinzen115"/>
==Administrative divisions== {| | {| |The eyalet consisted of seventeen sanjacks (liva) in 1530<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rumeli Eyaleti|publisher=Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı|year=2013|location=Ankara|pages=11}}</ref>
# Sanjak of Saruhan #[[Sanjak of Kütahya]] #[[Aydın|Sanjak of Aydın]] #[[Menteşe (district)|Sanjak of Menteşe]] # Sanjak of Teke # Sanjak of Hamid-ili # Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Sahib # Sanjak of Sultan-Öni # Sanjak of Hüdavendigar #[[Sanjak of Kocaeli|Sanjak of Koca-ili]] #[[Sanjak of Bolu]] # Sanjak of Kastamonu # Sanjak of Kankırı ([[Çankırı]]) #[[Ankara|Sanjak of Ankara]] #[[Alanya|Sanjak of Alaiyye]] #[[Sanjak of Karasi|Sanjak of Karesi]] #[[Sanjak of Biga]] |} |The eyalet consisted of seventeen sanjacks (liva) in 1550-51<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emecen|first=Feridun|date=1998|title=Osmanlı Taşra Teşkilâtının Kaynaklarından 957-958 (1550-1551) Tarihli Sancak Tevcîh Defteri (42 sayfa belge ile birlikte)|url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7liBn5XLsAfWHNpNzQ5RlNzX1E|journal=Belgeler|volume=XIX|pages=53–98|via=Türk Tarih Kurumu}}</ref>
# Sanjak of Saruhan # [[Sanjak of Kütahya]] # [[Aydın|Sanjak of Aydın]] # [[Menteşe (district)|Sanjak of Menteşe]] # Sanjak of Teke # Sanjak of Hamid-ili # Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Sahib # Sanjak of Sultan-Öni # Sanjak of Hüdavendigar # [[Sanjak of Kocaeli|Sanjak of Koca-ili]] # [[Sanjak of Bolu]] # Sanjak of Kastamonu # Sanjak of Kankırı ([[Çankırı]]) # [[Ankara|Sanjak of Ankara]] # [[Alanya|Sanjak of Alaiyye]] # [[Sanjak of Karasi|Sanjak of Karesi]] # [[Sanjak of Biga]] |The eyalet consisted of fifteen sanjaks in 1609:<ref name="Varlik125">Çetin Varlık, Anadolu Eyaleti Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi, ''Osmanlı'', Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, {{ISBN|975-6782-09-9}}, p. 125. {{in lang|tr}}</ref>
# [[Sanjak of Kütahya]] (Liva-i Kütahya, ''Pasha Sanjakı '', [[Kütahya]]) # [[Sanjak of Saruhan]] (Liva-i Saruhan Hass-ı Mîr Liva, ([[Manisa]]) # [[Sanjak of Aydin]] (Liva-i Aydın, [[Aydın]]) # [[Sanjak of Hüdavendigâr]] (Liva-i Hüdavendigâr, [[Bursa]]) # [[Sanjak of Kastamonu]] (Liva-i Kastamonu, [[Kastamonu]]) # [[Sanjak of Menteşe]] (Liva-i Menteşe, [[Muğla]]) # [[Sanjak of Bolu]] (Liva-i Bolu, [[Bolu]]) # [[Sanjak of Ankara]] (Liva-i Bankara, [[Ankara]]) # [[Sanjak of Karahisar-i Sahib]] (Liva-i Karahisar-ı Sahib, [[Afyonkarahisar]]) # [[Sanjak of Teke]] (Liva-i Teke, [[Antalya]]) # [[Sanjak of Kangırı]] (Liva-i Kangırı, [[Çankırı]]) # [[Sanjak of Hamid]] (Liva-i Hamid, [[Isparta]]) # [[Sanjak of Sultanönü]] (Liva-i Sultanönü, [[Eskişehir]]) # [[Sanjak of Karasi]] (Liva-i Karasi, [[Balıkesir]]) | |The eyalet consisted of fifteen sanjaks between 1700 and 1740:<ref name="Kilic93">Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, ''Osmanlı'', Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, {{ISBN|975-6782-09-9}}, p. 93. {{in lang|tr}}</ref>
# [[Sanjak of Kütahya]] (''Pasha Sanjakı'', [[Kütahya]]) # [[Sanjak of Hüdavendigâr]] ([[Bursa]]) # [[Sanjak of Bolu]] ([[Bolu]]) # [[Sanjak of Kastamonu]] ([[Kastamonu]]) # [[Sanjak of Karasi]] ([[Balıkesir]]) # [[Sanjak of Sultanönü]] ([[Eskişehir]]) # [[Sanjak of Saruhan]] ([[Manisa]]) # [[Sanjak of Karahisar-i Sahib]] ([[Afyonkarahisar]]) # [[Sanjak of Hamid]] ([[Isparta]]) # [[Sanjak of Ankara]] ([[Ankara]]) # [[Sanjak of Kânkırı]] ([[Çankırı]]) # [[Sanjak of Aydin]] ([[Aydın]]) # [[Sanjak of Teke]] ([[Antalya]]) # [[Sanjak of Menteşe]] ([[Muğla]]) # [[Sanjak of Beybazarı]] ([[Beypazarı]]) |}
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