Egypt Province
| Eyalet of Egypt إيالة مصر (Arabic) Eyalet-i Mısr (Ottoman Turkish) Mısır Eyaleti (Turkish) |
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| Capital | Cairo | ||||
| Government | Eyalet | ||||
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| • | 1517 | Yunus Pasha (first) | |||
| • | 1863–1867 | Isma'il Pasha (last) | |||
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| • | 1857–1858 | Zulfiqar Pasha (first) | |||
| • | 1866–1867 | Muhammad Pasha (last) | |||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||
| • | Battle of Ridaniya | 22 January 1517 | |||
| • | French Campaign | 1798–1801 | |||
| • | Rise of Muhammad Ali | 1801–1805 | |||
| • | Conquest of Sudan | 1820–1822 | |||
| • | Egyptian–Ottoman War | 1831–1833 | |||
| • | Khedivate proclaimed | 8 June 1867 | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1700 | 2,335,000 | |||
| • | 1867 | 6,076,000 | |||
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^ a. Arabic became the sole official language in 1863.
^ b. Figures are taken from the Populstat.info website. |
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^ b. Figures are taken from the Populstat.info website.
The Eyalet of Egypt was the result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and the absorption of Syria into the Empire in 1516. Egypt was administered as an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت مصر Eyālet-i Mıṣr) from 1517 until 1867, with an interruption during the French occupation of 1798 to 1801.
Egypt was always a difficult province for the Ottoman Sultans to control, due in part to the continuing power and influence of the Mamluks, the Egyptian military caste who had ruled the country for centuries. As such, Egypt remained semi-autonomous under the Mamluks until it was invaded by the French forces of Napoleon I in 1798. After the French were expelled, power was seized in 1805 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian military commander of the Ottoman army in Egypt.
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