Sanjak of Smederevo
| Sanjak of Smederevo | |||||
| sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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| Capital |
Smederevo (1459–1521) Belgrade (1521–1817) |
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| Sanjakbey | Ali Beg Mihaloglu (first) | ||||
| History | |||||
| • | Fall of the Serbian Despotate | 1459 | |||
| • | Autonomy of the Principality of Serbia | 1817 | |||
| Today part of | Serbia | ||||
The Sanjak of Smederevo (Turkish: Semendire Sancağı; Serbian: Смедеревски санџак/Smederevski sandžak), also known in historiography as the Pashalik of Belgrade (Turkish: Belgrad Paşalığı; Serbian: Београдски пашалук/Beogradski pašaluk), was an Ottoman administrative unit (sanjak), that existed between the 15th and the outset of the 19th centuries. It was located in the territory of present-day Central Serbia, Serbia.
The sanjak belonged to Rumelia Eyalet between 1459 and 1541, and again between 1716 and 1717 and again 1739 and 1817 (nominally to 1830), to Budin Eyalet between 1541 and 1686, and to Temeșvar Eyalet between 1686 and 1688 and again between 1690 and 1716.
During the governorship of Hadji Mustafa Pasha (1793–1801), the administration was expanded eastwards to include the Kladovo area, until then part of the Sanjak of Vidin.
The Sanjak of Smederevo was formed after the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459, and its administrative seat was Smederevo. Ottoman sources note a migration of "Vlachs" (pastoralists) to the Sanjak of Smederevo and parts of the Sanjak of Kruševac and Sanjak of Vidin; in 1476 there were 7,600 Vlach households and 15,000 peasant households.
After the Ottoman Empire conquered Belgrade in 1521, the administrative seat of the Sanjak was moved to this city. In period when Battle of Mohács took place the sanjakbey of Smederevo was Kučuk Bali-beg.
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