Eğri Eyalet
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| Eyālet-i Egīr Egri ejálet Jegarski ejalet | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1596–1687 | |||||||||||
 Eğri Eyalet in 1683 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Eğri (Hungarian: Eger) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1596 | |||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1687 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia | ||||||||||
Eğri Eyalet (Template:Lang-ota)[1] Template:Lang-hu, Template:Lang-sr) or Pashaluk of Eğri was an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire formed in 1596 with its capital at Eğri (Hungarian: Eger). It included parts of present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia.
The population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Slovaks and Hungarians (living mainly in the north), Serbs (living mainly in the south), and Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities). Other ethnic communities included Jews and Roma.
Administrative divisions
The province included following sanjaks:[citation needed]
- Sanjak of Segedin (Szeged)
- Sanjak of Sonluk (Szolnok)
- Sanjak of Seçen (Szécsény)
- Sanjak of Hatvan
- Sanjak of Kerman
- Sanjak of Novigrad (Nograd)
- Sanjak of Filek (Filakovo)
References
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 1, Novi Sad, 1990.