Karaman Eyalet Explained

Native Name:	ایالت قره‌مان Eyālet-i Ḳaraman
Common Name:	Karaman Eyalet
Subdivision:	Eyalet
Nation:	the Ottoman Empire
Year Start:	1483
Year End:	1864
P1:	Karamanids
S1:	Konya Vilayet
Image Map Caption:	The Karaman Eyalet in 1609
Capital:	Konya (1483–1522), (1562–1864), Kayseri (1522–1562)
Today:	Turkey

Karaman Eyalet (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: ایالت قره‌مان|Eyālet-i Ḳaraman)^[1] was one of the subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 30463sqmi.

In 1468, the formerly independent principality of Karaman was annexed by the Ottomans; Mehmed II appointed his son Mustafa as governor of the new eyalet, with his seat at Konya.^[2]

Administrative divisions

The eyalet consisted of seven sanjaks between 1700 and 1740:^[3] Konya, Niğde, Kayseri, Kırşehir, Beyşehir, Aksaray, and Akşehir.

See also

• Karaman Province

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Imber . Colin . The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power . 2002 . 179 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726115700/http://www.fatih.edu.tr/~ayasar/HIST236/Colin%20_Imber.pdf . 2014-07-26 .
3. Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999,, p. 93.