Podolia Eyalet was an 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...

. Its capital was Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamienets-Podolsky is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi...

 .

History

In 1672 the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV Modern Turkish Mehmet was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687...

, captured Kamaniçe after a short siege. The Treaty of Buchach confirmed Ottoman control of the city, which became the centre of a new eyalet. The treaty was repudiated by the Polish Diet, and war broke out anew.

The polish campaign proved unsuccessful, and the truce of Żurawno (1676) left Podolia within Ottoman borders. Another Polish-Ottoman war broke out again in 1683. For the next 16 years, Ottoman rule in Podolia was limited to the blockaded fortress of Kamianets, held by a garrison of 6,000 soldiers. The fortress was returned to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Karlowitz

Treaty of Karlowitz

The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed on 26 January 1699 in Sremski Karlovci , concluding the Austro-Ottoman War of 1683–1697 in which the Ottoman side had been defeated at the Battle of Zenta...

 (1699).

Governors

During the 27 years of Ottoman rule, Podolia was administered by nine Ottoman pashas:

• Küstendilli Halil (1672–76; 1677–80),
• Arnavut Ibrahim (1676–77)
• Defterdar Ahmed (1680–82)
• Arnavut Abdurrahman (1682–84)
• Tokatlı Mahmud (1684)
• Bozoklu Mustafa (1685–86)
• Sarı Boşnak Hüseyin (1686–88)
• Yegen Ahmed (1688–89)
• Kahraman Mustafa (1689–99)

Administrative divisions

The eyalet was divided into four sanjaks:

1. Sanjak of Kamaniçe
2. Sanjak of Bar
   Bar, Ukraine
   Bar is a city located on the Rov River in the Vinnytsia Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Barskyi Raion , and is part of the historic region of Podolia. The current estimated population is 17,200 .-History:The city was a small trade outpost named Row...
   
   
3. Sanjak of Medžybiž
4. Sanjak of Jazlivec