Vilayet Croats
| Croatian Vilayet Vilayet-i Hırvat |
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| Borderland of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Sinj | ||||
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| • | Ottoman conquest of parts of Dalmatia | 1520s | |||
| • | Annexation to the Sanjak of Klis | 1537 | |||
| Today part of |
 Croatia
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The Croatian Vilayet (Ottoman Turkish: vilâyet-i Hırvat) was a temporary borderland entity in Dalmatia in the 16th century. Its capital was Sinj.
Immediately after the Ottoman capture of the Dalmatian hinterland and Lika from the Republic of Venice in the 1520s, they organized it as a borderland entity and named it the Vilayet of "Croats" (Turkish: Hırvat, Croatian: Hrvati). The southern border of the territory of this vilayet was river Cetina while north-western border was Lika and river Zrmanja. It also included region around river Krka. This territory was administratively governed as the Croatian vilayet which belonged to the Sanjak of Bosnia and listed as such in its 1530 defter (tax registry).
The capital of the vilayet was Sinj. Its territory was under the jurisdiction of the Skradin kadiluk. Aličić claimed that territories of the Croatian vilayet and Skradin kadiluk were the same and that the official Ottoman administrative unit, Croatian vilayet, was under administrative-judicial jurisdiction of Skradin.
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