Podolia Eyalet

Eyalet-i Kamaniçe
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1672–1699 →
Podolia Eyalet, 1683
Capital		Kamianets-Podilskyi 48°41′N 26°35′E / 48.683°N 26.583°ECoordinates: 48°41′N 26°35′E / 48.683°N 26.583°E
History
•	Siege of Kamenets	1672
•	Treaty of Karlowitz	1699
Today part of		Ukraine

Podolia Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: Eyalet-i Kamaniçe‎)^[1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its capital was Kamianets-Podilskyi (Polish: Kamieniec Podolski; Ukrainian: Кам’янець-Подільський; Turkish: Kamaniçe;).

History

The Ottoman garrison in the city of Kamaniçe, capitol of the Podolia Eyalet.

In 1672 the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Mehmed IV, captured Kamaniçe after a short siege.^[2] The Treaty of Buchach confirmed Ottoman control of the city, which became the centre of a new eyalet.^[2] The treaty was repudiated by the Polish Diet, and war broke out anew.^[2]

The Polish campaign proved unsuccessful, and the truce of Żurawno (1676) left Podolia within Ottoman borders. Another Polish-Ottoman war broke out again in 1683.^[2] For the next 16 years, Ottoman rule in Podolia generally was limited to the blockaded fortress of Kamianets, held by a garrison of 6,000 soldiers.^[2] The other garrisons in Podolia, in Bar, Medzhybizh, Jazlivec, and Chortkiv, barely exceeded 100 soldiers each.^[3]

According to the Ottoman provincial budget of 1681, 13 million akçe were spent yearly in the eyalet, primarily for soldiers' pay. Of this amount, less than 3% was collected from Podolia itself, the rest was sent from the central treasury.^[3] In 1681, the patriarch of Constantinople appointed the Orthodox metropolitan of Kamianets, named Pankratij.^[4]

The fortress was returned to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699).^[2]

Governors

During the 27 years of Ottoman rule, Podolia was administered by nine Ottoman pashas:^[2]

• Küstendilli Halil (1672–76; 1677–80),
• Arnavut Ibrahim (1676–77)
• Defterdar Ahmed (1680–82)
• Arnavut Abdurrahman (1682–84)
• Tokatlı Mahmud (1684)
• Bozoklu Mustafa (1685–86)
• Sarı Boşnak Hüseyin (1686–88)
• Yegen Ahmed (1688–89)
• Kahraman Mustafa (1689–99)

Administrative divisions

The eyalet was divided into four sanjaks:^[2]

1. Sanjak of Kamaniçe
2. Sanjak of Bar
3. Sanjak of Mejibuji
4. Sanjak of Yazlofça

References

1. Marc David Baer (2011-09-01). Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-19-979783-7. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
2. Agoston, Gabor; Masters, Bruce Alan (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
3. Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz (June 1992). "Ottoman Podillja: The Eyalet of Kamjanec', 1672-1699". Harvard Ukrainian Studies 16 (1/2): 87–101.
4. Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz (2006). "The "Turkish Yoke" Revisited: The Ottoman Non-Muslim Subjects Between Loyalty, Alienation, And Riot" (PDF). Acta Poloniae Historica (93): 178–195. ISSN 0001-6829.

External links

• Podolia under the Ottoman rule, Eyalet-i Kamaniçe 1672-1699