the eastward expansion of Bayezid's realms in the 1390s, a third eyalet, Rûm Eyalet, came into existence, with Amasya its chief town. This became the...

The Eyalet of the Morea (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موره, romanized: Eyālet-i Mōrâ) was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire, centred on the...

in Rum Eyalet (1473-1514 and again 1520-1555), Bayburt Eyalet (1514-1516), Diyarbekir Eyalet (1516-1520), Erzurum Eyalet (1555-1805), Trabzon Eyalet (1805-1865)...

Greek Muslims, also known as Muslim Rums, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam (and often the Turkish language and identity) dates...

main base of military power in the region. It served as the capital of the eyalet of Erzurum. Early in the seventeenth century, the province was threatened...

favorites. An account by a contemporary who visited his household, Claudio Angelo di Martelli, reports of three sons who survived his death: Yusuf, Mehmed, and...

Battle of Konya in 1832. He was appointed the Wāli of Diyarbakir Eyalet and Raqqa Eyalet in 1834 and onwards led military campaigns against the local Kurdish...

treaty, Neum and Sutorina were attached to Sanjak of Herzegovina of Bosnia Eyalet. Ragusa continued its policy of strict neutrality in the War of Austrian...

Malik-Shah I in 1092. Malik-Shah was succeeded in the Anatolian Sultanate of Rum by Kilij Arslan I, and in Syria by his brother Tutush I, who died in 1095...

Greece) and died in battle against the Spanish at Tlemcen in the Ottoman Eyalet of Algeria. Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: خير الدين بربروس‎, romanized:...