Erzurum, Ottoman eyalet of
Substate | Defunct
1533 CE to 1867 CE
The Erzurum Eyalet is an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
It is established after the conquest of Western Armenia by the Ottoman Empire.
Its reported area in the nineteenth century is 11,463 square miles (29,690 km2).
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The Ottoman Empire is a world power when Suleyman dies in 1566.
Most of the great cities of Islam—Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad— are under the sultan's crescent flag.
The Porte exercises direct control over Anatolia, the sub-Danubian Balkan provinces, Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.
Egypt, Mecca, and the North African provinces are governed under special regulations, as are satellite domains in Arabia and the Caucasus, and among the Crimean Tartars.
In addition, the native rulers of Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) are vassals of the sultan.