Bosnia eyalet

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1580–1867. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Eyalet of Bosnia was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1580, Ferhad Pasha Sokolović became the first governor of the Bosnia Eyalet, as beylerbey. The province reached its territorial peak in 1683, and the Great Turkish War that ended in Ottoman defeat in 1699 led to a significant decrease in the territory of the Eyalet. It 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 Bosnia Vilayet.

Seat of power: Travnik

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• Commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1557 and designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of the architect Mimar Sinan, the Old Bridge is an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture.
• In 1703 the seat of the pasha was moved from Sarajevo to Travnik, because Sarajevo had been destroyed by fire in the war.
• In 1831, Bosnian kapudan Husein Gradaščević occupied Travnik, demanding autonomy and the end of military reforms in Bosnia. The revolt was crushed, and in 1833 a new eyalet of Herzegovina was created from the southern part of the eyalet of Bosnia.

Picture

The Old Bridge, also known as the Mostar Bridge, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Image: Ramirez, CC BY-SA 4.0, file

Sources

• Bosnia Eyalet (Wikipedia)
• Bosnia eyalet (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

Text adapted from the Wikipedia articles listed as sources, CC BY-SA 4.0.