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Silistra Eyalet
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| Province of Ochakiv Eyalet-i Silistra | |||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1593–1864 | |||||||||||||
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.png) The Silistra Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Silistra[1] and Özi | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 44°7′N 27°16′E / 44.117°N 27.267°E | ||||||||||||
• 1856[2] | 94,858 km2 (36,625 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1593 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||||
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The Eyalet of Silistra or Silistria[3] (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت سیلیستره; Eyālet-i Silistre),[4] later known as Özü Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت اوزی; Eyālet-i Özi)[4] 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 Europe. The fortress of Akkerman was under the eyalet's jurisdiction.[5] Its reported area in the 19th century was 71,140 square kilometres (27,469 sq mi).[6]
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- ^ Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) (1856). Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World ... J.B. Lippincott. p. 1968. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ Charles Knight (1867). The English Cyclopaedia: Geography. Bradbury, Evans. p. 111. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ a b "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Conrad Malte-Brun; Adriano Balbi (1842). System of universal geography, founded on the works of Malte-Burn and Balbi... Adam and Charles Black. p. 607. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
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