Province of Budin (Buda) Eyālet-i Budin Budai vilajet Budimski vilajet |
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Eyalet of Ottoman Empire | |||||
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Budin Eyalet, Ottoman Empire in 1683 | |||||
Capital |
Budin (Hungarian: Buda) 47°28′N 19°03′E / 47.467°N 19.050°ECoordinates: 47°28′N 19°03′E / 47.467°N 19.050°E |
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Government | Pashaluk | ||||
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• | Siege of Buda | 1541 | |||
• | Battle of Buda | 1686 | |||
Today part of |
Slovakia Hungary Croatia Serbia |
Budin Eyalet (also known as Province of Budin / Buda or Pashaluk of Budin / Buda; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بودین; Eyālet-i Budin,Hungarian: Budai vilajet, Serbian: Budimski vilajet or Будимски вилајет, Croatian: Budimski vilajet) was an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire in Central Europe and the Balkans. It was formed on the territories that Ottoman Empire conquered from the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and Serbian Despotate. The capital of the Budin Province was Budin (Hungarian: Buda).
Population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Hungarians, Croats, Serbs, Slovaks, Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities) and others (Jews, Romani, etc.). The city of Buda itself became majority Muslim during the seventeenth century, largely through the immigration of Balkan Muslims.
In the 16th century the Ottoman Empire had conquered the southern "line of fortresses" (végvár) of the Kingdom of Hungary. After the Battle of Mohács where the Kingdom of Hungary was heavily defeated, and the turmoil caused by the defeat, the influence was spread on the middle part of the Kingdom of Hungary. While Ottoman troops invaded Buda in 1526 and 1529, Suleyman I used the Buda area as a territory of the allied kingdom and did not annex it fully to the Empire.