Dulkadir Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ذو القادریه / دولقادر, romanized: Eyālet-i Ẕū l-Ḳādirīye / Ḍūlḳādir)[2] or Marash Eyalet (Turkish: Maraş Eyaleti) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 77,352 square miles (200,340 km2).[3]
Maraş Eyaleti | |||||||||||
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Eyalet of Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
1522–1864 | |||||||||||
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The Dulkadir Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
Capital | Marash[1] | ||||||||||
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• Established | 1522 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||
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The Dulkadirids were the last of the Anatolian emirates to yield to the Ottomans, managing to remain independent until 1521, and were not fully incorporated into the empire until 1530.[4] The eyalet was established in 1522.[5] After its disestablishment in 1864, its territories were united with Aleppo and Diyarbekir eyalets.
Eyalet of Marash consisted of four sanjaks between 1700 and 1740 as follows:[6]
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I. Süleyman 1566 yılında öldüğünde kısmen ya da tamamen Kürt bölgelerinden oluşturulan yeni eyaletler şunlardı: Dulkadir (1522), Erzurum (1533), Musul (1535), Bağdat (1535), Van (1548) ve Şehrizor (1554...