Childir Eyalet
The Eyalet of Childir (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت چلدر, romanized: Eyālet-i Çıldır) or Akhalzik was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire in the Southwestern Caucasus. The area of the former Çıldır Eyalet is now divided between Samtskhe-Javakheti and the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia and provinces of Artvin, Ardahan and Erzurum in Turkey. The administrative center was Çıldır between 1578 and 1628, Ahıska between 1628 and 1829, and Oltu between 1829 and 1845.
| Eyālet-i Čildir | |||||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||
| 1578–1845 | |||||||||||||||
The Childir Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Çıldır 1578-1628; Ahıska 1628-1829 Oltu 1829-1845 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Battle of Çıldır | 1578 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1845 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Georgia Turkey | ||||||||||||||
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