Podolia Eyalet
Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1672 to 1699
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Podolia Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالتِ كامانىچه, romanized: Eyalet-i Kamaniçe)[1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its capital was Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Кам’янець-Подільський; Polish: Kamieniec Podolski; Ottoman Turkish: كامانىچه, romanized: Kamaniçe).
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| Eyalet-i Kamaniçe | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1672–1699 | |||||||||
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| The Podolia Eyalet in 1683 | |||||||||
| Capital | Kamianets-Podilskyi | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 48°41′N 26°35′E | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1672 | |||||||||
| 1699 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||
History
In 1672, the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Mehmed IV, captured Kamaniçe after a short siege.[2] The Treaty of Buchach confirmed Ottoman control of the city, which became the centre of a new eyalet.[2] The treaty was repudiated by the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and war broke out anew.[2]
The Polish campaign proved unsuccessful, and the truce of Żurawno (1676) left Podolia within Ottoman borders. Another Polish-Ottoman war broke out again in 1683.[2] For the next 16 years, Ottoman rule in Podolia generally was limited to the blockaded fortress of Kamianets, held by a garrison of 6,000 soldiers.[2] The other garrisons in Podolia, in Bar, Medzhybizh, Jazlivec, and Chortkiv, barely exceeded 100 soldiers each.[3]
According to the Ottoman provincial budget of 1681, 13 million akçe were spent yearly in the eyalet, primarily for soldiers' pay. Of this amount, less than 3% was collected from Podolia itself, the rest was sent from the central treasury.[3] In 1681, the patriarch of Constantinople appointed the Orthodox metropolitan of Kamianets, named Pankratij.[4]
The fortress was returned to Poland–Lithuania as a result of the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699).[2]
Governors
During the 27 years of Ottoman rule, Podolia was administered by nine Ottoman pashas:[2]
- Küstendilli Halil (1672–76; 1677–80),
- Arnavut Ibrahim (1676–77)
- Defterdar Ahmed (1680–82)
- Arnavut Abdurrahman (1682–84)
- Tokatlı Mahmud (1684)
- Bozoklu Mustafa (1685–86)
- Sarı Boşnak Hüseyin (1686–88)
- Yegen Ahmed (1688–89)
- Kahraman Mustafa (1689–99)