Vilayet of Bosnia

Bosnia Vilayet
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1867–1908 →
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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

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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.

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:

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