Sanjak of Krka
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Sanjak of Krka (Turkish: liva Krka, Serbo-Croatian: Krčki sandžak) was a frontier sanjak (serhad) of the Ottoman Empire.
| Sanjak of Krka | |||||||||||||||
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| sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1580–1688 | |||||||||||||||
 Coat of arms
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| Capital | Knin | ||||||||||||||
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• Establishment of the Bosnia Eyalet | 1580 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1688 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Croatia Bosnia | ||||||||||||||
History
In 1580, Ferhad Pasha Sokolović became the first governor (beylerbey or simply pasha) of the Beylerbeylik of Bosnia.[1] The Bosnia Eyalet (or Pashaluk) comprised a total of ten sanjaks: Sanjak of Bosnia (central province), Sanjak of Herzegovina, Sanjak of Vučitrn, Sanjak of Prizren, Sanjak of Klis, Sanjak of Krka, and Sanjak of Pakrac.[1]
The sanjak had territory from Lika to Krbava, and the areas between Zrmanja and Krka, and had its seat in Knin.[2] It was formed out of territories that had been part of the Sanjak of Klis and Sanjak of Bosnia.[3]
Governors
- Arnaud Mehmed Memi-beg, first
- stari Memi-beg (?)
- Jusuf-alajbeg (?)
- Halil-beg (?)
- Rustem-beg (?)
- Mustaj-beg/Mustafa-beg (?)
- Halil-beg Alajbegović (?–1647)[5]
- Muhamed Durakbegović (fl. 1675)
Annotations
Sometimes known in Serbo-Croatian historiography as "Sanjak of Krka and Lika" (Krčko-lički sandžak).