Basra Eyalet
| Arabic: إيالة البصرة Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1538–1862 | |||||||||
The Basra Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Basra | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1538 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1862 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Iraq | ||||||||
Basra Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ) was an eyalet in Ottoman Iraq of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,872 square miles (25,570 km2). It had a Defterdar and Kehiya of the Chavushes but neither Alai-beg nor Cheribashi because there were no ziamets or Timars, the lands being all rented by the governor.