Damascus Eyalet

Damascus Eyalet
Arabic: إيالة الشام
Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام
Damascus Eyalet Arabic: إيالة الشام; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1516–1865
	Flag
	; The Damascus Eyalet in 1795
Capital	Damascus
History
• Battle of Marj Dabiq	1516
• Disestablished	1865
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Mamluk Sultanate
Syria Vilayet
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
Today part of	Palestine; Israel; Jordan; Syria

Damascus Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة دمشق; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Šām)^[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 51,900 square kilometres (20,020 sq mi).^[3] It became an eyalet after the Ottomans took it from the Mamluks following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War.^[4] Janbirdi al-Ghazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus.^[5] The Damascus Eyalet 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 Syria Vilayet.^[6]

^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6 , p. 698, at Google Books
^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 169, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
^ D. E. Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. p. 105. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
^ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. J. Perthes. 1867. pp. 827–829. Retrieved 2013-06-01.

[1] Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books

[someprov-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, Volume 6 , p. 698, at Google Books

[otm-enc-4] Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, p. 169, at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters

[Pitcher1972p105-5] D. E. Pitcher (1972). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. p. 105. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

[6] Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique. J. Perthes. 1867. pp. 827–829. Retrieved 2013-06-01.

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