Tripoli Eyalet

Tripoli Eyalet Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām طرابلس الشام
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1579–1864
Flag
The Tripoli Eyalet in 1609
Capital	Tripoli[1]
Area
• Coordinates	34°26′N 35°51′E / 34.433°N 35.850°E / 34.433; 35.850
History
• Established	1579
• Disestablished	1864
Preceded by Succeeded by Damascus Eyalet Aleppo Eyalet Beirut Vilayet Syria Vilayet
Today part of	Lebanon Syria

Tripoli Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت طرابلس شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Ṭrāblus-ı Şām;^[2] Arabic: طرابلس الشام) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was in Tripoli, Lebanon. Its reported area in the 19th century was 1,629 square miles (4,220 km²).^[3]

It extended along the coast, from the southern limits of the Amanus mountains in the north, to the gorge of Maameltein to the south, which separated it from the territory of the sanjak of Sidon-Beirut.^[4]

Along with the chiefly Sunni Muslim and Maronite Christian coastal towns of Latakia, Jableh, Baniyas, Tartus, Tripoli, Batrun and Byblos, the eyalet included the Wadi al-Nasara valley (the Valley of the Christians), the An-Nusayriyah Mountains, inhabited by Alawites, as well as the northern reaches of the Lebanon range, where the majority of inhabitants were Maronite Christians.^[4]