Eyalet of Bosnia

Bosnia Eyalet Eyalet-i Bosna
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1580–1867 →   →
Bosnia Eyalet in 1683
Capital		Bosna-Saray (now Sarajevo) (1520–1553) Banja Luka (1553–1639) Bosna-Saray (now Sarajevo) (1639–1699) Travnik (1699–1832)
History
•	Established	1580
•	Disestablished	1867
Area
•	1856	70,038 km2(27,042 sq mi)
Population
•	1732	340,000
•	1787	600,000
Today part of		Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Serbia  Montenegro

The Eyalet of Bosnia (Ottoman Turkish: Eyalet-i Bosna‎,Serbo-Croatian: Bosanski pašaluk) or Bosnia Beylerbeylik (Turkish: Bosna Beylerbeyliği, Bosnian: Bosanski beglerbegluk) was an eyalet (also known as a beylerbeylik) of the Ottoman Empire, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to the Great Turkish War, it had also included most of Slavonia, Lika, and Dalmatia in present-day Croatia. Its reported area in the 19th century was 20,281 square miles (52,530 km²).

After the execution of King Stephen Tomašević in 1463, the central part of the Kingdom of Bosnia was transformed into the sanjak of Bosnia. The Duchy of Herzegovina was added in 1483.

In 1580, Ferhad Pasha Sokolović became the first governor of the Bosnia Eyalet, as beylerbey (also referred to as "pasha"). The Bosnia Eyalet (or Pashaluk) included the Sanjak of Bosnia (central province), Sanjak of Herzegovina, Sanjak of Vučitrn, Sanjak of Prizren, Sanjak of Klis, Sanjak of Krka, and Sanjak of Pakrac.

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