Diyarbekir Eyalet

The Eyalet Diyar -ı Bekr ( Ottoman Turkish: Eyalet -i Diyar -ı Bekr ) or the Diyar -ı Bekr Beylerbeyliği was founded in 1515 Ottoman Eyalet. Its center was Amed, today's Diyarbakir.

History

After the Aq Qoyunlu the Persian Safavids in the 16th century rulers of the region in eastern Anatolia were. On August 23, 1514, the Ottoman Empire defeated the Safavids in the Battle of Chaldiran and so pushed out the Safavids from Anatolia.

The city of Diyarbakir was conquered in 1527 under the leadership of Mehmet Pasha Biyikli for the Ottomans, who then made ​​the town the provincial capital. At the province originally belonged Mosul, the regions Diyar Rabi ʿ a and Diyar Mudar as Bitlis. Subsequent restructuring reduced the province, but one of the biggest and most important Ottoman provinces remained. In particular, the location close to the troubled and important Persian frontier established the importance of the province. Under Ottoman rule Diyarbakir remained four centuries of war spared.

The Eyalet Diyar -ı Bekr was in the 17th century 71,272 km ², representing 6.5 % of today's Turkish Republic. The Eyalet corresponds to the modern provinces of Diyarbakir, Elazig, Siirt, Bingöl (except Kigi ), Mardin, Tunceli, the eastern half of Urfa and the district EGIN ( Kemaliye ) in Erzincan.

Structure

The Eyalet existed at different times from a untschiedlichen number of Sandžak. In the year 1518 spanned the province for example, twelve of Sandžak. A few years later, there were 14 in 1869 had the four province of Sandžak. The following were among Sanschaks over time to the province: Sanjak Diyar -ı Bekr, Sanjak Harput, Sanjak Ergani, Sanjak Siverek, Sanjak Nusaybin, Sanjak Hisn -ı Keyfâ, Sanjak Alçakala, Sanjak Khabur, Sanjak Sincar, Sanjak Meyyafarikıyn (also called Sanjak Silvan ), Sanjak Siird, Sanjak Çemişgezek and other 13 small sanjak. In Eyalet there were further eight Kurdish sanjak whose governorship was hereditary, and five autonomous Kurdish Hükümet ( dt: Governments ).

With the adoption of the Teşkil -i Vilayet Nizamnâmesi for restructuring the imperial administration in 1864 the Eyalet Diyar -ı Bekr was replaced by the Vilayet Diyar -ı Bekr.