| Tripoli Eyalet Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām طرابلس الشام | |||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1579–1864 | |||||||||||||
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.png) The Tripoli Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Tripoli[1] | ||||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 34°26′N 35°51′E / 34.433°N 35.850°E | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1579 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Lebanon Syria | ||||||||||||
Tripoli Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طرابلس شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām;[2] Arabic: طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli, Lebanon. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1,629 square miles (4,220 km2).[3]
It extended along the coast, from the southern limits of the Amanus mountains in the north, to the gorge of Maameltein to the south, which separated it from the territory of the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut.[4]
Along with the chiefly Sunni Muslim and Maronite Christian coastal towns of Latakia, Jableh, Baniyas, Tartus, Tripoli, Batrun and Byblos, the eyalet included the Wadi al-Nasara valley (the Valley of the Christians), the An-Nusayriyah Mountains, inhabited by Alawites, as well as the northern reaches of the Lebanon range, where the majority of inhabitants were Maronite Christians.[4]
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
- ^ a b Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (2004). The View from Istanbul: Ottoman Lebanon and the Druze Emirate. I.B.Tauris. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-1-86064-856-4. Retrieved 2013-05-25.