Anatolia Eyalet
Template:Short description Template:Infobox former subdivision The Eyalet of Anatolia (Template:Langx)<ref name=someprov>Template:Cite web</ref> was one of the two core provinces (Rumelia being the other) in the early years of the Ottoman Empire. It was established in 1393.<ref name="otm-enc">Template:Google books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters</ref> Its capital was first Ankara in central Anatolia, but then moved to Kütahya in western Anatolia. Its reported area in the 19th century was Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Google books</ref>
The establishment of the province of Anatolia is held to have been in 1393, when Sultan Bayezid I (Template:Abbr 1389–1402) appointed Kara Timurtash as beylerbey and viceroy was in Anatolia, during Bayezid's absence on campaign in Europe against Mircea I of Wallachia.<ref name="EI2-beylerbey">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name="EI2-eyalet">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> The province of Anatolia—initially termed beylerbeylik or generically vilayet ("province"), only after 1591 was the term eyalet used<ref name="EI2-eyalet"/>—was the second to be formed after the Rumelia Eyalet, and ranked accordingly in the hierarchy of the provinces.<ref name="Provinzen115">Template:Cite book</ref> The first capital of the province was Ankara, but in the late 15th century it was moved to Kütahya.<ref name="Provinzen115"/>
As part of the Tanzimat reforms, the Anatolia Eyalet was dissolved Template:Circa and divided into smaller provinces, although various scholars give conflicting dates for the dissolution, from as early as 1832 to as late as 1864.<ref name="Provinzen115"/>
Administrative divisions
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The eyalet consisted of seventeen sanjacks (liva) in 1550-51<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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The eyalet consisted of fifteen sanjaks in 1609:<ref name="Varlik125">Çetin Varlık, Anadolu Eyaleti Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, Template:ISBN, p. 125. Template:In lang</ref>
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The eyalet consisted of fifteen sanjaks between 1700 and 1740:<ref name="Kilic93">Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, Template:ISBN, p. 93. Template:In lang</ref>
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References
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