Eyalet of the Archipelago

Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea
ایالت جزایر بحر سفید (Ottoman Turkish)
*Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd*
Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea ایالت جزایر بحر سفید (Ottoman Turkish); Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1533–1864
	; The Eyalet of the Archipelago in 1609
Capital	Gallipoli
History
• Established	1533
• Disestablished	1864
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Rumelia Eyalet
	Anatolia Eyalet
	Cyprus Eyalet
Morea Eyalet
Military-Political System of Samos
First Hellenic Republic
Vilayet of the Archipelago
Edirne Eyalet
Today part of	Turkey; Greece; Cyprus

The Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت جزایر بحر سفید, Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd, "Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea")^[2] was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire. From its inception until the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-19th century, it was under the personal control of the Kapudan Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy.

^ Macgregor, John. Commercial Statistics: A Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs Tariffs, Navigation, Port, and Quarantine Laws, and Charges, Shipping, Imports and Exports, and the Monies, Weights, and Measures of All Nations. Including All British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States 2 ed., Vol. II, p. 12. Whittaker and Co. (London), 1850. Accessed 10 September 2011.
^ "White Sea" being the Ottoman Turkish name for the Mediterranean.

[MacG-1] Macgregor, John. Commercial Statistics: A Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs Tariffs, Navigation, Port, and Quarantine Laws, and Charges, Shipping, Imports and Exports, and the Monies, Weights, and Measures of All Nations. Including All British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States 2 ed., Vol. II, p. 12. Whittaker and Co. (London), 1850. Accessed 10 September 2011.

[2] "White Sea" being the Ottoman Turkish name for the Mediterranean.

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