Eyalet of Adrianople
The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne or Çirmen (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne) was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826.
| Eyālet-i Edirne Еялет Адрианопол Εγιαλέτ της Αδριανούπολης | |||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1826–1867 | |||||||||||
The Adrianople Eyalet in the 1850s | |||||||||||
| Capital | Edirne | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 41°40′N 26°34′E | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1844 | 1,200,000 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1826 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1867 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey Greece Bulgaria | ||||||||||
It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Vilayet of Adrianople.
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