in the sense of fixed territorial units with governors appointed by the sultan, in the late 14th century. The beylerbey, or governor, of each province...

Pasha of Tripoli was a title that was held by many rulers of Tripoli in Ottoman Tripolitania. The Ottoman Empire ruled the territory for most time from...

called eyalets, presided over by a beylerbey (title equivalent to duke in Turkish and Amir al Umara in Arabic) of three tails (feathers borne on a state...

privateer and admiral, who later became beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers, and finally Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) of the Ottoman fleet in the 16th century...

raid on Tripolitania in 1552. Dragut became the beylerbey of Tripoli in 1556, and he modified the city's fortifications such that it became one of the best-defended...

or generically vilayet ("province") of Rumeli, only after 1591 was the term eyalet used. The first beylerbey of Rumelia was Lala Shahin Pasha, who was...

well as for the southern regions of the Kiev Voivodeship), also known by its Turkic name Yedisan. The first recorded use of the term Khanska Ukraina are traced...

al-Ghazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus. The Damascus Eyalet was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet...

establishment of the province of Anatolia is held to have been in 1393, when Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389–1402) appointed Kara Timurtash as beylerbey and viceroy...

Eyālet-i Özi) meaning Province of Ochakiv was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire along the Black Sea littoral and south bank of the Danube River in southeastern...