Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1865
Damascus Eyalet
Arabic: إيالة الشام Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1516–1865
Flag
The Damascus Eyalet in 1795
Capital
Damascus[1]
History
• Battle of Marj Dabiq
1516
• Disestablished
1865
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mamluk Sultanate
Syria Vilayet
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Today part of
Palestine Israel Jordan Syria
Damascus Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة دمشق; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Šām)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 51,900 square kilometres (20,020 sq mi).[3] It became an eyalet after the Ottomans took it from the Mamluks following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War.[4] Janbirdi al-Ghazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus.[5] The Damascus Eyalet was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Syria Vilayet.[6]
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