Ottoman Syria
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Ottoman Syria refers to divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the Levant, usually defined as the region east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.
Ottoman Syria became organized by the Ottomans upon conquest from the Mamluks in the early 16th century as a single eyalets (province) of Damascus. In 1534, the Aleppo was split into a separate administration. Eyalet of Tripoli was formed out of Damascus province in 1579 and later Eyalet of Adana was split from Aleppo. In 1660, Eyalet of Safed was established and shortly afterwards renamed Eyalet of Sidon; in 1667, Mount Lebanon Emirate was provided a special autonomous status within the Sidon province, but was abolished in 1841 and reinstalled in 1861 as the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. The Syrian eyalets were later transformed into the Vilayet of Syria, the Vilayet of Aleppo and the Vilayet of Beirut, following the 1864 Tanzimat reforms. Finally, in 1872, the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem was split from the Syria Vilayet into an autonomous administration with a special status.
See also
- Arab Kingdom of Syria
- French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- History of Syria
- Southern Syria
- Sykes–Picot Agreement
- Syria (Roman province)
