Eyalet of the Archipelago
The Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت جزایر بحر سفید, Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd, "Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea") was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire. From its inception until the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-19th century, it was under the personal control of the Kapudan Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy.
| Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea ایالت جزایر بحر سفید (Ottoman Turkish) Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1533–1864 | |||||||||||||||||||||
The Eyalet of the Archipelago in 1609 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Gallipoli | ||||||||||||||||||||
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• Established | 1533 | ||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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