Damascus Eyalet [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Damascus Eyalet
Damascus Eyalet () was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was . It became an eyalet after the Ottomans conquered it from the Mamluks in 1516. Janbirdi al-Ghazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus. The Damascus Eyalet 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 Syria Vilayet.
Territorial jurisdiction.
The Ottoman Empire conquered Syria from
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Ismail Pasha's was the Ottoman governor of:
- Rumelia Eyalet (1685–?)
- Sidon Eyalet (?–1689/90)
- Karaman Eyalet (1689/90 – 1691/92)
- Anatolia Eyalet (1691/92)
- Damascus Eyalet (1692–1693)
- Crete Eyalet (1693–1695)
- Egypt Eyalet (Oct. 1695 – Sep. 1697)
- Baghdad Eyalet (Oct./Nov. 1697 – 1699)
- Van Eyalet (1699–1701)
As governor of Egypt.
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