Kars Eyalet
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kars-eyalet-315-5738629
title:
Kars Eyalet
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The Eyalet of Kars was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 6,212 square miles (16,090 km2). The town of Kars, which had been levelled to the ground by the Timur in 1368, was rebuilt as an Ottoman fortress in 1579 by Lala Mustafa Pasha, and became capital of an eyalet of six sanjaks and also a place of pilgrimage. It was conquered by Shah Abbas in 1604 and rebuilt by the Turks in 1616. The size of the Kars garrison in 1640s was 1,002 Janissaries a
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Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1580 to 1875
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kars_Eyalet
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2024-03-20T18:04:22Z
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