Baghdad Eyalet

Eyalet of Baghdad
Arabic: إِيَالَةُ بَغْدَاد
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بغداد
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
Under Safavid occupation (1624–1638)
1535–1864
Flag of Baghdad Eyalet
Flag

The Baghdad Eyalet in 1609
CapitalBaghdad[1]
History 
1535
• Disestablished
1864
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Baghdad Province
Mamluk Sultanate
Baghdad Vilayet
Today part ofIraq

Baghdad Eyalet (Arabic: إِيَالَةُ بَغْدَاد, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بغداد, romanizedEyālet-i Baġdād)[2] was an Iraqi eyalet of the Ottoman Empire centered on Baghdad. Its reported area in the 19th century was 62,208 square miles (161,120 km2).[3]

  1. ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  2. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Vol. 6. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-26.

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