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 .[ Europe by Éliseé Reclus, page 152]
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
Sanjaks of the Vilayet:
[ Bosna Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet]
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Sanjak of Bosnia (Kazas of Visoko, Fojnica, Çayniça, Vişegrad, Rogatica and Kladanj)
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Sanjak of Izvornik (Its center was Tuzla, included kazas of Maglaj, Gradçaniça, Gradaçaç, Breçka, Bijeljina, Zvornik and Birçe)
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Sanjak of Banjaluka (Kazas of Berbir, Derventa and Teşene)
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Sanjak of Hersek (Its center was Mostar, included kazas of Foça, Konjic, Tomislavgrad, Liyubuşka, Stolac, Trebinje, Bileke, Nikşik and Gacko)
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Sanjak of Travnik (Kazas of Jajce, Prusac, Belgradçık and Livno)
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Sanjak of Bihke (Kazas of Köluyc, Novosel, Cazin, Bosanska Krupa, Kostayniça and Prijedor
Languages
Bosnian language was used as the second official language of this vilayet.
[ ( info page on book at Martin Luther University) - Cited: p. 34 (PDF p. 36)]
See also
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List of Ottoman governors of Bosnia
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Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Pashaluk of Herzegovina
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Sanjak of Novi Pazar
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Markus Koller and Kemal H. Karpat, Ottoman Bosnia: A History in Peril, University of Wisconsin Press (2004)
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Matija Mazuranic, A Glance into Ottoman Bosnia, Saqi Books (2007)
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