Eyalet of Adrianople
Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1826 to 1867
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The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne[2] or Çirmen[3] (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne)[4] was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826.
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| Eyālet-i Edirne Еялет Адрианопол Εγιαλέτ της Αδριανούπολης | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1826–1867 | |||||||||||
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| The Adrianople Eyalet in the 1850s | |||||||||||
| Capital | Adrianople (Edirne) | ||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 41°40′N 26°34′E | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1844 | 1,200,000[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1826 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1867 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Turkey Greece Bulgaria | ||||||||||
It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Vilayet of Adrianople.[5]
Administrative division
The eyalet comprised almost all of the historical geographical region of Thrace, and comprised the following subdivisions (sanjaks or livas):[3][6]
- Sanjak of Nevahi-i Erbaa (capital: Çatalca)
- Sanjak of Tekfürtaği (Rodosto) or Vize
- Sanjak of Gelibolu (Gallipoli)
- Sanjak of Edirne (Adrianople)
- Sanjak of Filibe (mod. Plovdiv)
- Sanjak of Islimiye (mod. Sliven) or Eski Zagra (Stara Zagora)
The sanjaks were further subdivided into 50 kazas or prefectures.[3]
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