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The Province of Bosnia or Pashaluk of Bosnia (Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
: Bosna Vilâyeti or Bosna Pasaligi) was a key Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 province, the westernmost one, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
 as well as most of Slavonia
Slavonia

Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east....
, Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
 and Dalmatia
Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
 in present-day Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
.

ng the Ottoman times it was both a single sanjak
Sanjak

Sanjaks were administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak, and the variant spellings sandjak, sanjaq, and sinjaq, are English transliterations of the Turkish language word sancak, meaning district, banner or flag....
, and after 1580 a pashaluk divided into several sanjaks.

In the mid-17th century, at the peak of its size, the Bosnian pashaluk covered all of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as most of Slavonia
Slavonia

Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east....
, Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
 and Dalmatia
Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
 in present-day Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
.






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Bosnia 17th Century
The Province of Bosnia or Pashaluk of Bosnia (Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
: Bosna Vilâyeti or Bosna Pasaligi) was a key Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 province, the westernmost one, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
 as well as most of Slavonia
Slavonia

Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east....
, Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
 and Dalmatia
Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
 in present-day Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
.

History

During the Ottoman times it was both a single sanjak
Sanjak

Sanjaks were administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak, and the variant spellings sandjak, sanjaq, and sinjaq, are English transliterations of the Turkish language word sancak, meaning district, banner or flag....
, and after 1580 a pashaluk divided into several sanjaks.

In the mid-17th century, at the peak of its size, the Bosnian pashaluk covered all of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as most of Slavonia
Slavonia

Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east....
, Lika
Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
 and Dalmatia
Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
 in present-day Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
. It encompassed eight sanjaks and 29 captaincies (military outposts):
  • sanjak of Požega
    Požega, Croatia

    Po?ega is a town in western Slavonia, eastern part of Croatia, with a population of 28,948 . It is the center of the Po?ega-Slavonia county.The city lies on the main road Nova Gradi?ka ? Po?ega ? Na?ice and the railroad Nova Kapela/Batrina ? Po?ega - Velika and Velika - Po?ega - Pleternica - Na?ice...
     (2 military captaincies)
  • sanjak of Bosnia
    Bosnia (region)

    Historically and geographically, the region known as Bosnia lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders....
     (7 captaincies)
  • sanjak of Bihac
    Bihac

    File:Novi_trg_Bihac.jpgBihac is a city and municipality on the Una River in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, center of the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
     (4 captaincies)
  • sanjak of Krka
    Krka

    Krka is the name for several rivers :* Krka , tributary of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia* Krka , tributary of the Sava in Slovenia* Gurk River , tributary of the Drava in Austria...
    -Lika
    Lika

    Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Pljesevica mountain from the northeast....
     (7 captaincies)
  • sanjak of Klis
    Klis

    Klis is a village located around a mountain fortress bearing the same name. It is located in central Dalmatia, Croatia, located just northeast of Solin, Croatia and Split near the eponymous mountain pass....
     (4 captaincies)
  • sanjak of Herzegovina
    Herzegovina

    Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, comprising 11.419 sq km or around 22% of the total area of the present-day country....
     (4 captaincies)
  • sanjak of Zvornik
    Zvornik

    Zvornik is a city on the Drina river in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located south of the town of Bijeljina in the Republika Srpska entity....
  • sanjak of Cernik
    Cernik, Croatia

    Cernik is a municipality in the Brod-Posavina county. According to the 2001 census, there are 4,235 inhabitants in the area.The people live in 11 naselja:...


However, the Ottoman wars in Europe
Ottoman wars in Europe

The wars of the Ottoman Empire in Europe are also sometimes referred to as the Ottoman Wars or as Turkish Wars, particularly in older, European texts....
 continued and the province significantly decreased in territory during the same century. After the Treaty of Karlowitz
Treaty of Karlowitz

The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed on January 26, 1699 in Sremski Karlovci , a town in modern-day Serbia, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1697 in which the Ottoman side had finally been defeated at the Battle of Zenta....
, the province was down to four sanjaks (three of them diminished in size as well) and twelve captaincies. Before the Treaty of Passarowitz
Treaty of Passarowitz

The Treaty of Passarowitz or Treaty of Po?arevac was the peace treaty signed in Po?arevac , a town in modern Serbia, on July 21, 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Republic of Venice on the other....
, another 28 military captaincies were formed, more than half of them along the frontier. This kind of intensive military administration corresponded to the Austrian Military Frontier
Military Frontier

File:Pomorisje.jpgMilitary Frontier was a borderland of Habsburg Monarchy and later the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which acted as the cordon sanitaire against the Ottoman Empire....
 on the other side of the same border.

In 1833, territory of Herzegovina
Herzegovina

Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, comprising 11.419 sq km or around 22% of the total area of the present-day country....
 region was separated from the Pashaluk of Bosnia and was turned into the separate Pashaluk of Herzegovina, whose vizier was Ali-paša Rizvanbegovic
Ali-paša Rizvanbegovic

Ali-pa?a Rizvanbegovic-Stocevic was administrator of Stolac from 1813 to 1833 and semi-independent ruler of Herzegovina from 1833 to 1851....
. After his death in 1851, pashaluks of Bosnia and Herzegovina were merged into new entity known as Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
.

Capitals

Province of Bosnia's first center was Sarajevo
Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the Capital and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 304,065 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and an estimated urban area population of 419,030 people in the Sarajevo Canton ....
 (Saraybosna) between 1463 and 1583 and again between 1851 and 1878. Other centers were Banjaluka (Banyaluka or Banaluka) between 1583 and 1686, and Travnik
Travnik

Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality....
 between 1686 and 1851.

See also

  • History of Ottoman Bosnia
    History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

    This is a history of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  • Bosniaks during Ottoman times
    Bosniaks

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  • Pashaluk of Herzegovina
  • Sanjak of Novi Pazar
    Sanjak of Novi Pazar

    The Sanjak of Novi Pazar was an Ottoman Empire sanjak that existed until the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 in the territory of present day Serbia and Montenegro and serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija under UN jurisdiction....


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