Baghdad Eyalet

Safavid shah Ismail I took the Baghdad region from the Aq Qoyunlu in 1508.{{cite book|author1=Gábor Ágoston|author2=Bruce Alan Masters|title=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC&pg=PA71|access-date=2013-06-26|date=2009-01-01|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1025-7|page=71}} After the Safavid takeover, Sunni Muslims, Jews and Christians became targets of persecution, and were killed for being infidels. In addition, Shah Ismail ordered the destruction of the grave of Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of law which the Ottomans adopted as their official legal guide.

In 1534, Baghdad was captured by the Ottoman Empire, and the eyalet was established in 1535.{{cite book|author=Donald Edgar Pitcher|title=An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gs4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA126|access-date=2013-06-26|year=1972|publisher=Brill Archive|page=126}} Between 1623 and 1638, it was once again in Iranian hands. It was decisively recaptured by the Ottomans in 1638, whose possession over Iraq was agreed upon in the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab.

For a time, Baghdad had been the largest city in the Middle East. The city saw relative revival in the latter part of the 18th century under a largely autonomous Mamluk government. Direct Ottoman rule was reimposed by Ali Ridha Pasha in 1831. From 1851 to 1852 and from 1861 to 1867, Baghdad was governed, under the Ottoman Empire by Mehmed Namık Pasha. The Nuttall Encyclopedia reports the 1907 population of Baghdad as 185,000.

Sanjaks of Baghdad Eyalet in the 17th century:{{cite book|author1=Evliya Çelebi|author2=Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall|title=Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_66hCAAAAcAAJ|access-date=2013-06-26|year=1834|publisher=Oriental Translation Fund|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_66hCAAAAcAAJ/page/n111 90]}}

• Seven of the eighteen Sanjaks of this eyalet were divided into ziamets and Timars:

1. Sanjak of Hilla
2. Sanjak of Zeng-abad
3. Sanjak of Javazar
4. Sanjak of Rumahia
5. Sanjak of Jangula
6. Sanjak of Kara-tagh
7. [the name of the seventh sanjak is missing]

• The other eleven sanjaks had no ziamets or Timars and were entirely in the power of their possessors:

1. Sanjak of Terteng
2. Sanjak of Samwat
3. Sanjak of [[Bayat (tribe)|

Biat]]

1. Sanjak of [[Darneh, Kermanshah|

Derneh]]

1. Sanjak of [[Ilam, Iran|

Deh-balad]]

1. Sanjak of Evset
2. Sanjak of Kerneh-deh
3. Sanjak of Demir-kapu
4. Sanjak of Karanieh
5. Sanjak of Kilan
6. Sanjak of Al-sah

Sanjaks between 1682 and 1702:{{cite book |last=Kılıç

|first=Orhan |date=1997 |title=18. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin İdari Taksimatı-Eyalet ve Sancak Tevcihatı / In the First half of the 18th Century Administrative Divisions of the Ottoman Empire-Shire and Sanjak Assignments |url=https://www.academia.edu/19903381/18_Y%C3%BCzy%C4%B1l%C4%B1n_%C4%B0lk_Yar%C4%B1s%C4%B1nda_Osmanl%C4%B1_Devletinin_%C4%B0dari_Taksimat%C4%B1_Eyalet_ve_Sancak_Tevcihat%C4%B1_In_the_First_half_of_the_18th_Century_Administrative_Divisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_Shire_and_Sanjak_Assignments |language=tr |location=Elazığ |publisher=Şark Pazarlama |isbn=9759630907 |pages=71}}

1. Sanjak of Baghdad
2. Government (Hükümeti) of Imadiyye
3. Sanjak of Hille
4. Sanjak of Cevâzir, Aşfatara, Kasr-ı Ruhûr, Mehcer and Reventin
5. Sanjak of Derne and Dertenk
6. Sanjak of Kasr-ı Şirin
7. Sanjak of Semavât
8. Sanjak of Zaho
9. Sanjak of Zeng-i Abâd
10. Sanjak of Cêssan-Bedre
11. Sanjak of Ane
12. Sanjak of Eriha
13. Sanjak of Kızıl Ribat
14. Sanjak of Altun Köpru
15. Sanjak of Herîr (Government (Hükümeti) of Şehrân)
16. Sanjak of Mîr-Aşiret-i Baclan

Sanjaks between 1727 and 1740

1. Sanjak of Baghdad
2. Government (Hükümeti) of Imadiyye
3. Sanjak of Derne and Dertenk
4. Sanjak of Mendelcin
5. Sanjak of Cêssan Bedre
6. Sanjak of Herîr (Government (Hükümeti) of Şehrân
7. Sanjak of Mendemi Aşireti (Mendemi Tribe)

{{reflist}}

• Ottoman Iraq
• List of Ottoman governors of Baghdad

{{Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire}}

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Category:Ottoman Iraq

Category:Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in Asia

Category:1535 establishments in the Ottoman Empire

Category:1864 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire

Category:Ottoman history of Baghdad

Category:Political history of Baghdad