Bosnia vilayet

Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1867 to 1878 (officially in 1908)

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Bosnia Vilayet

ولايت بوسنی (Ottoman Turkish)
Vilâyet-i Bosna
Bosanski vilajet (Serbo-Croatian)

Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
1867–1878 de facto, 1908 de jure[1]

The Bosnia Vilayet after the Congress of Berlin
Capital| Sarajevo
Area|
• Coordinates| 43°52′N 18°25′E﻿ / ﻿43.867°N 18.417°E﻿ / 43.867; 18.417

• 1879

| 46,000 km2 (18,000 sq mi)
Population|

• 1879

| 1,158,440
History|

• Vilayet Law

| 1867

• Treaty of Berlin

| 1878

• Bosnian Crisis

| 1908

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Bosnia Eyalet

|

| Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina |

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Today part of| Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Sources for population;[2] area[3]

The Bosnia Vilayet (Serbo-Croatian: Bosanski vilajet/Vilajet Bosna) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, mostly comprising the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with minor parts of modern Montenegro. It bordered Kosovo Vilayet to the south. Before the administrative reform in 1867, it was called the Bosnia Eyalet. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 46,000 square kilometres (17,900 sq mi).[3]

It effectively ceased to exist as an Ottoman province after the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, although it formally existed for thirty more years until 1908, despite being governed by Austria-Hungary. This excluded Old Herzegovina, which was ceded to the Principality of Montenegro in 1878. In 1908, during the Bosnian Crisis, Austria-Hungary formally annexed it into its own territory.

## Administrative divisions

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Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[4][dead link]

1. Sanjak of Bosnia (Kazas of Visoka, Foyniça, Çayniça, Vişegrad, Çelebipazar and Kladine)
2. Sanjak of Izvornik (Its center was Tuzla, included kazas of Maglay, Gradçaniça, Gradaçaç, Breçka, Belene, İzvornik and Birçe)
3. Sanjak of Banaluka (Kazas of Berbir, Derbend and Teşene)
4. Sanjak of Hersek (Its center was Mostar, included kazas of Foça, Koniça, Dumna, Liyubuşka, İstolça, Trebin, Bileke, Nikşik and Gaçka)
5. Sanjak of Travnik (Kazas of Yayçe, Akhisar, Belgradçık and İhlivne)
6. Sanjak of Bihke (Kazas of Köluyc, Novosel, Sazın, Krupa, Kostayniça and Pridor)

## Languages

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Bosnian language was used as the second official language of this vilayet.[5][6]

## See also

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Part of a series on the

History of
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Early history

* Prehistory
Neolithic cultures:
(Kakanj / Butmir)
* Illyrian period
(Glasinac culture / Central Bosnian culture)
* Roman Dalmatia
* Roman Pannonia

Middle Ages

* Bosnia in the Early Middle Ages (before 10th c.)
* Travunia \- Zachumlia (~9th–14th c.)
* Banate (~1154–1377) \- Kingdom (1377-1463)
("zemlje"/counties: Usora / Soli / Donji Kraji / Hum (Herzegovina from 1454) / Podrinje)
* Bosansko Krajište (1451-1463)
* Duchy of Herzegovina (1463–1482)

Ottoman era

* Ottoman conquest
* (Bosansko Krajište (1451-1463))
* Ottoman era
(Bosnia Sanjak (1463–1580), Sanjak of Herzegovina (1481–1833) / Bosnia Eyalet (1580-1867), Herzegovina Eyalet (1833–1851) / Bosnia Vilayet (1867-1908) / Herzegovina Uprising (1875–1877))

Habsburg era

* Habsburg era
(Bosnian crisis)

Yugoslavia

* Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(Drina Banovina)
* World War II
* SFR Yugoslavia
(SR Bosnia and Herzegovina)
* Breakup of Yugoslavia

Contemporary

* Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bosnian War
(defunct: Herzeg-Bosnia / Western Bosnia)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Republika Srpska)

Bosnia and Herzegovina portal

* v
* t
* e

* List of Ottoman governors of Bosnia
* Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Pashaluk of Herzegovina
* Sanjak of Novi Pazar

## References

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1. ^ In 1878, Austria-Hungary invaded and occupied Bosnia from the Ottoman Empire.
2. ^ Palairet, Michael R. (13 November 2003). The Balkan Economies c.1800-1914: Evolution without Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521522564.
3. ^ a b Europe by Éliseé Reclus, page 152
4. ^ Bosna Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
5. ^ Alen Kalajdžija (2016). "Počeci službenog korištenja Bosanskog jezika" [The beginnings of the official use of the Bosnian language] (PDF). Časopis Književni jezik (in Bosnian). 1–2 (27). Institut za jezik Univerzitet Sarajevo. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
6. ^ Strauss, Johann (2010). "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages". In Herzog, Christoph; Malek Sharif (eds.). The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy. Wurzburg. pp. 21–51.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (info page on book at Martin Luther University) - Cited: p. 34 (PDF p. 36)

* Markus Koller and Kemal H. Karpat, Ottoman Bosnia: A History in Peril, University of Wisconsin Press (2004) ISBN 0-299-20714-5
* Matija Mazuranic, A Glance into Ottoman Bosnia, Saqi Books (2007)

## External links

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* Media related to Bosnia Vilayet at Wikimedia Commons

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Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire

c. 1365 – 1867 (eyalets)

| Africa|

* Algiers
* Egypt
* Muhammad Ali dynasty
* Habesh
* Tripolitania
* Tunis

|

Anatolia|

* Adana
* Aidin
* Anatolia
* Ankara
* Childir
* Diyarbekir
* Dulkadir
* Erzurum
* Hüdavendigâr
* Karaman
* Kars
* Kastamonu
* Kurdistan
* Rum
* Trebizond
* Van

Europe|

* Adrianople
* Archipelago
* Bosnia
* Budin
* Crete
* Egir
* Herzegovina
* Kanije
* Kefe
* Morea
* Niš
* Podolia
* Rumelia
* Salonica
* Silistra
* Temeşvar
* Uyvar
* Varat
* Widdin
* Yanina

Levant|

* Aleppo
* Cyprus
* Damascus
* Jerusalem
* Sidon
* Mount Lebanon
* Tripoli

Arabia|

* Yemen
* Lahsa

Mesopotamia|

* Baghdad (Mamluk of Iraq)
* Mosul
* Basra
* Rakka
* Shahrizor

1867–1922 (vilayets and mutasarrıfates)

| Africa|

* Tripolitania

|

Anatolia|

* Adana
* Aidin
* Angora (Ankara)
* Archipelago
* Bitlis
* Constantinople (Istanbul)
* Diyarbekir
* Erzurum
* Hüdavendigâr
* Kastamonu
* Konya
* Mamuret-ul-Aziz
* Sivas
* Trebizond (Trabzon)
* Van

Europe|

* Adrianople (Edirne)
* Bosnia
* Constantinople
* Crete
* Danube
* Janina
* Kosovo
* Manastir
* Salonica
* Scutari

Levant|

* Aleppo
* Beirut
* Mount Lebanon
* Syria
* Jerusalem

Arabia|

* Hejaz
* Yemen

Mesopotamia|

* Baghdad
* Mosul
* Basra

Vassals and autonomies

| Vassals|

* Cossack Hetmanate
* Ottoman Ukraine
* Crimean Khanate
* Khanate of Kazan
* Principality of Moldavia
* Sharifate of Mecca
* Republic of Ragusa
* Serbian Despotate
* Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1672–1676)
* Duchy of Syrmia
* Principality of Transylvania
* Principality of Wallachia
* Principality of Romania
* Principality of Serbia
* Principality of Bulgaria
* Kingdom of Imereti
* Septinsular Republic

|

Autonomies|

* Cretan State
* Khedivate of Egypt
* Kurdish emirates
* Mamluk of Iraq
* Eastern Rumelia
* Principality of Samos

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