Eyalet of Adrianople explained

Native Name:	Eyālet-i Edirne Еялет Адрианопол Εγιαλέτ της Αδριανούπολης
Common Name:	Eyalet of Adrianople
Subdivision:	Eyalet
Nation:	the Ottoman Empire
Year Start:	1826
Year End:	1867
P1:	Rumelia Eyalet
P2:	Silistra Eyalet
Flag P2:	Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg
S1:	Adrianople Vilayet
Flag S1:	Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg
Image Map Caption:	The Adrianople Eyalet in the 1850s
Capital:	Edirne
Today:
Stat Year1:	1844
Stat Pop1:	1,200,000^[1]

The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne^[2] or Çirmen^[3] (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne)^[4] was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826.

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 Vilayet of Adrianople.^[5]

Administrative division

The eyalet comprised almost all of the historical geographical region of Thrace, and comprised the following subdivisions (sanjaks or livas):^{[3] [6]}

1. Sanjak of Nevahi-i Erbaa (capital: Çatalca)
2. Sanjak of Tekfürtaği (Rodosto) or Vize
3. Sanjak of Gelibolu (Gallipoli)
4. Sanjak of Edirne (Adrianople)
5. Sanjak of Filibe (mod. Plovdiv)
6. Sanjak of Islimiye (mod. Sliven) or Eski Zagra (Stara Zagora)

The sanjaks were further subdivided into 50 kazas or prefectures.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Michael R. Palairet. The Balkan Economies C.1800-1914: Evolution Without Development. 2013-06-01. 2003-11-13. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-52256-4. 9.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=UAVCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT111 The English Cyclopaedia: Geography
3. Web site: http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/thraki/history/his.asp?perioxhid=N0016 . Konortas . Paraskevas . el:Αδριανουπόλεως Βιλαέτιον προ του 1864 . el . Θρακικός Ηλεκτρονικός Θησαυρός . 2 March 2013.
4. Web site: Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Geonames.de. 25 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180044/http://www.geonames.de/coutr-ota-provinces.html. 28 September 2013. dead.
5. Book: Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. 2013-06-01. 1867. J. Perthes. 827–829.
6. By James Henry Skene