Eyalet of Baghdad | |||||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire Under Safavid occupation (1624–1638) | |||||||||||
1535–1864 | |||||||||||
The Baghdad Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
Capital | Baghdad[1] | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
1535 | |||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Iraq |
Baghdad Eyalet (Arabic: إِيَالَةُ بَغْدَاد, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بغداد, romanized: Eyālet-i Baġdād)[2] was an Iraqi eyalet of the Ottoman Empire centered on Baghdad. Its reported area in the 19th century was 62,208 square miles (161,120 km2).[3]