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Vilayet of Bosnia

Bosnia Vilayet
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire

1867–1908

Flag of Bosnia Vilayet

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Location of Bosnia Vilayet
Bosnia Vilayet in the 1880s
Capital Sarajevo
History
 •  Established 1867
 •  Austro-Hungarian occupation 1878
 •  Annexation to Austria-Hungary 1908
Area
 •  1871 46,000 km2(17,761 sq mi)
Population
 •  1871 1,232,000 
Density 26.8 /km2  (69.4 /sq mi)
Today part of  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Montenegro
Sources for population; area

Flag of Bosnia Vilayet

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The Bosnia Vilayet was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, mostly comprising the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It bordered Kosovo Vilayet to the south. Before the administrative reform in 1867, it was called the Bosnia Eyalet. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 17,900 square miles (46,000 km2).

It effectively ceased to exist as an Ottoman province after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, although it formally existed for thirty more years until 1908, despite being governed by Austria-Hungary. This excluded Old Herzegovina, which was ceded to the Principality of Montenegro in 1878. In 1908 Austria-Hungary formally annexed it into its own territory.

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