Aleppo Eyalet
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Aleppo Eyalet was a eyalet
Eyalet
Eyalets were a former primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. The term is sometimes translated province or government. Depending on the rank of their commander, they are also sometimes known as pashaliks, beylerbeyliks, and kapudanliks.From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth...

 of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

. After the Ottoman conquest it was governed from Damascus, but by 1534 Aleppo was made the capital of a new eyalet. Its reported area in the 19th century was 8451 square miles (21,888 km²). Its capital, Aleppo
Aleppo
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

, was the third largest city of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th and 17th century.

Administrative divisions

The Eyalet consisted of five sanjaks between 1690 and 1740 as follows:
  1. Sanjak of Haleb (Paşa Sancağı , Aleppo
    Aleppo
    Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

    )
  2. Sanjak of Maura (Ma'arra Sancağı (Ma`arrat an-Nu`man)
  3. Sanjak of Balis (Balis Sansağı )
  4. Sanjak of Uzeyr (Uzeyr Sancağı, Payas
    Payas
    -Geography:Payas is a town in Dörtyol district which is a part of Hatay Province. It is a Mediterranean coastal town situated at about . Distance to Dörtyol at the north is and to İskenderun is at the south is .The population is 33444 as of 2010.-History:...

    )
  5. Sanjak of Kilis (Kilis
    Kilis
    Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey on the border with Syria and capital of Kilis Province.- History and Population :Kilis was part of the vilayet of Aleppo of the Ottoman Empire until the First World War when it was given to Turkey and had a mixed population of Circassians, Turkomans and Arabs...

    )
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