Basra Eyalet

Arabic: إيالة البصرة
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1538–1862

The Basra Eyalet in 1609
CapitalBasra
History 
• Established
1538
• Disestablished
1862
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Safavid dynasty
Basra Vilayet
Today part of Iraq

Basra Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanizedEyālet-i Baṣrâ)[1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km2).[2] It had a Defterdar and Kehiya of the Chavushes but neither Alai-beg nor Cheribashi because there were no ziamets or Timars, the lands being all rented by the governor.[3]

  1. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  3. ^ Evliya Çelebi; Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1834). Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1. Oriental Translation Fund. p. 90. Retrieved 2013-06-27.