Sanjak of Pakrac

Pakrac Sancağı Pakrački Sandžak
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
← 1552/1557–1699 →
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Map of the Sanjak of Pakrac in 1606
Capital		Zaçasna (1552-1559) Pakrac (1559-1601) Çernik (1601-1691)
History
•	Solidification of the Ottoman conquest of Slavonia	1552/1557
•	Habsburg annexation of Slavonia after the Treaty of Karlowitz	1699
Today part of		Croatia  Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The Sanjak of Pakrac or Sanjak of Čazma or Sanjak of Cernica was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire whose capital was first Zaçasna and then Pakrac and Cernik in Ottoman Slavonia. It was established after the Ottomans captured Slavonia in mid 16th century.

The Ottomans captured Pakrac in 1543. Its territory was not immediately established as separate sanjak. Until 1544 it first belonged to the Kobašu kadiluk of Bosnian sanjak by 1544. In 1544 the Ottomans established kadiluk in Velika to which this territory was ceded. Only in second half of the 16th century they established a kadiluk in Pakrac. In order to populate the Croatian and Slavonian borders, the Turks brought with them significant quantities of Orthodox Vlachs, who either already lived by there or were coming from the Serb-Vlach populated Ottoman territories, to live between their border garrisons. Because of the substantial number of Vlachs, parts of the Sanjak of Pakrac and Sanjak of Požega were referred to as Mala Vlaška (English: Little Wallachia).

The Sanjak of Pakrac was established in 1552 or 1557. Its first capital was Čazma. In 1559 Čazma was destroyed and seat of this sanjak was moved to Pakrac. The earliest document which refer to this sanjak as Sanjak of Pakrac is defter from 1565. The first sanjakbey of this sanjak was Ferhad-beg Desisalić-Vuković from Herzegovina. The Sanjak of Pakrac belonged first to Rumelia Eyalet and since 1580 to Bosnia Eyalet. Initially, its western frontier was river Česma. In 1591 the frontier moved and stabilized more eastward.

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