Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet

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Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet was a frontier province of the Ottoman Empire in the western Balkans, serving as a key military and administrative region bordering Habsburg and Venetian territories.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Bosnia Eyalet 1
Ottoman Bosnia 1
Sanjak of Bosnia 1

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
former administrative division
administrativeDivision sanjaks
borderedBy Habsburg Monarchy NERFINISHED
Venetian Republic NERFINISHED
capital Sarajevo NERFINISHED
contains Bosnia NERFINISHED
Herzegovina (at various periods) NERFINISHED
parts of Dalmatia (at various periods)
parts of Slavonia (at various periods)
country Ottoman Empire
ethnicComposition Bosniaks NERFINISHED
Croats NERFINISHED
Serbs NERFINISHED
other South Slavs
governmentType provincial administration of the Ottoman Empire
headOfGovernment Beylerbey (governor) NERFINISHED
language Bosnian (vernacular)
Ottoman Turkish (administrative)
locatedIn Southeastern Europe NERFINISHED
Western Balkans NERFINISHED
militaryFunction control of border fortresses
defense of Ottoman western frontier
staging area for campaigns against Habsburg territories
partOf Rumelia (Ottoman European territories) NERFINISHED
partOfConflict Ottoman–Habsburg wars NERFINISHED
Ottoman–Venetian wars NERFINISHED
religion Eastern Orthodoxy (significant minority)
Islam (state religion)
Roman Catholicism (significant minority)
Sunni Islam (dominant)
role administrative region
frontier province
military frontier
timePeriod early modern period

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha governorOf Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet
this entity surface form: Bosnia Eyalet
Jajce historicalEra Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet
this entity surface form: Ottoman Bosnia
Battle of Sisak (1593) opponent Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet
Bosnian Kingdom successor Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet
this entity surface form: Sanjak of Bosnia