Ottoman administrative unit between the 16th and 20th century
Sanjak of Delvina
Sanjak of Ottoman Empire
16th century–1913
Coat of arms
Capital
Delvinë, Ergiri
History
• Established
16th century
• First Balkan War
March 3, 1913 1913
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Sanjak of Avlona
Independent Albania
Kingdom of Greece
Today part of
Albania Greece
The Sanjak of Delvina (Turkish: Delvine Sancağı, Albanian: Sanxhaku i Delvinës) was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire which county town was Delvinë but during the 18th century became Gjirokastër, Albania. It was created in the mid-16th century,[1] came under the control of the Pashalik of Yanina during 1785−1822, and was disestablished after the Balkan Wars in 1913. It was divided between Albania Albania and Greece in 1913.
^Delvina, Sherif (2006). Low Albania (Epirus) and Cham issue. Eurorilindja. Afterwards, when the sandjak of Delvina has been created (about the middle of XVI century),
The SanjakofDelvina (Turkish: Delvine Sancağı, Albanian: Sanxhaku i Delvinës) was one of the sanjaksof the Ottoman Empire which county town was Delvinë...
control ofDelvina and became ruler of the SanjakofDelvina in 1785, but did not have control full control of the Sanjak, with the regions of Himara (1797)...
the south. This sanjak had two kazas: kaza of Berat and kaza of Valona. Before the establishment of the SanjakofDelvina in the middle of the 16th century...
SanjakofDelvina, Ioannina and Avlona. In 1867 the Sanjakof Ioannina was merged with Berat, Gjirokastër, Preveza and Kastoria into the Vilayet of Ioannina...
Vlorë region was put under full Ottoman control, and the SanjakofDelvina was created. He died of plague in Istanbul and was buried in the Eyüp Sultan Mosque...
the 18th century. A leading member of the Meçohysaj clan, Veli was appointed as mutasarrıf of the SanjakofDelvina after a power struggle with his cousins...
control over the sanjaksof Yanina, Delvina, Vlora and Berat, Elbasan, Ohrid and Monastir, Görice, and Tirhala. Ali was granted the Sanjakof Tirhala in 1787...
Ottoman administration and represented Kaza of Gjirokastër, SanjakofDelvina as a deputy in the 1908 parliament of the Young Turks. As an Ottoman parliamentarian...
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the Christian nahiye of Ai-Donat, part of the homonymous kaza of the sanjakofDelvina. In a 1613 tax list, however, Souli is one of the settlements in...
devastating consequences of military expeditions of the Ottomans. In the newly formed Sanjakof Berat, which included the provinces of Vlora, Mallakastra,...
The Sanjakof Elbasan (Turkish: İlbasan Sancağı; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Elbasanit) was one of the sanjaksof the Ottoman Empire. Its county town was Elbasan...
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became part of the municipality of Delvinë. It is inhabited exclusively by ethnic Greeks. The Ottoman defter of 1582 for the SanjakofDelvina provides records...
replaced with the name Delvinë which also became an official name of the Ottoman sanjakofDelvina. The territory around the river Aoös (or Vjosë, today in southern...
former being the center ofSanjakofDelvina. Greek Sarakatsani communities used to have their winter pastures in the plain of Vurg. During World War II...
became part of the municipality of Delvinë. It is inhabited solely by ethnic Greeks. The Ottoman defter of 1582 for the SanjakofDelvina provides records...
The Sanjakof Monastir or Manastir (Turkish: Manastir Sancağı) or Bitola, was a sanjak within the Rumelia Eyalet (1465–1867) and then the Manastir Vilayet...
in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Greek Struggle for Macedonia, and the Balkan Wars. In 1914 he proclaimed the Autonomy of his native town, Himarra...
area of 18,320 square kilometres (7,070 sq mi). It was created by merging the Pashalik of Yanina and the Pashalik of Berat with the sanjaksof Janina...