Sanjak of Vučitrn
| Sanjak of Vučitrn Vulçitrin sancağı Sanxhaku i Vuçitërnit Вучитрнски санџак |
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| Capital | Vučitrn | ||||
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| • | Established | 1459 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1864 | |||
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Sanjak of Vučitrn (Turkish: Vulçitrin sancağı; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Vuçiternës/Vushtrrisë; Serbian: Вучитрнски санџак) was a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire in Kosovo. It was named after its administrative center Vučitrn.
Vučitrn was captured from the Serbian Despotate by the Ottomans in 1455 it remained under control of the governor of Skopsko Krajište until the definite annexation of the Serbian Despotate in 1459. The first Ottoman records include the territory of the sanjak as Vilayet-i Vlk (Vilayet of Vuk), a reference to Vuk Branković.
According to Ottoman defters of 1525—1561 the sanjak of Vučitrn included the following towns: Vučitrn, Priština, Janjevo, Novo Brdo, Belasica, Belo Brdo, Koporići, Trepča and Donja Trepča. In 1459-1826 it was part of Rumelia Eyalet, except for a brief period after 1541 when it was included into newly established Budin Eyalet. It was also part of Temeşvar Eyalet briefly before returning to Rumelia Eyalet.
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