| Eyalet-i Ḳıbrıṣ Ottoman Turkish: ایالت قبرص 1571–1670 1745–1748 Sancağı Ḳıbrıṣ Ottoman Turkish: سانجاغى قبرص 1670–1703 1784–1878 | |||||||||
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| Eyalet/Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1571–1878 | |||||||||
.png) Ottoman Cyprus in 1609 in red. The rest of the Ottoman Empire in light-yellow | |||||||||
| Capital | Nicosia | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1571 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1878 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Cyprus Northern Cyprus Akrotiri and Dhekelia | ||||||||
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The Eyalet of Cyprus (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت قبرص, Eyālet-i Ḳıbrıṣ)[1] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire made up of the island of Cyprus, which was annexed into the Empire in 1571.[2] The Ottomans changed the way they administered Cyprus multiple times. It was a sanjak (sub-province) of the Eyalet of the Archipelago from 1670 to 1703, and again from 1784 onwards; a fief of the Grand Vizier (1703–1745 and 1748–1784); and again an eyalet for the short period from 1745 to 1748.[3]
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Library of the US Congress
- ^ An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire, p. 137, at Google Books