Sanjak of Shkodra | |||||||||||||
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Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
1479–1913 | |||||||||||||
The sanjak highlighted within the Scutari vilayet (c. 1900) | |||||||||||||
Capital | Scutari (present-day Shkodër) | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
1479 | |||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 30 May 1913 | ||||||||||||
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The Sanjak of Scutari or Sanjak of Shkodra (Albanian: Sanxhaku i Shkodrës; Serbian: Скадарски санџак; Turkish: İskenderiye Sancağı or İşkodra Sancağı) was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Ottoman Empire acquired Shkodra after the siege of Shkodra in 1478–9. It was part of the Eyalet of Rumelia until 1867, when it became a part, together with the Sanjak of Skopje, of the newly established Scutari Vilayet. In 1912 and the beginning of 1913 it was occupied by members of the Balkan League during the First Balkan War. In 1914 the territory of Sanjak of Scutari became a part of the Principality of Albania, established on the basis of the peace contract signed during the London Conference in 1913.