Temeşvar Province, Ottoman Empire

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The Province of Temeşvar or Eyalet-i Temeşvar was a first-level administrative unit (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire located in the Banat region of Central Europe. Besides Banat, the province also included area north of the Mureş River, part of the Crişana region. Its territory is now divided between Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Beylerbeyleri (governors) of the Eyalet of Temeşvar 4 See also

[edit] Name

The name of the province in Ottoman Turkish was Eyâlet-i Temeşvar or Eyâlet-i Tımışvar (Modern Turkish: Temeşvar Eyaleti or Tımışvar Eyaleti), in Romanian was Eialetul Timişoarei or Paşalâcul Timişoara, in Serbian was Темишварски ејалет or Temišvarski ejalet, and in Hungarian was Temesvári ejálet.

[edit] History

The Eyalet of Temeşvar was formed in 1552, when the region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and existed until 1716, when it was conquered by the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1718, the Habsburgs formed a new province in this region, named the Banat of Temeswar.

The population of the province was mainly composed of Orthodox Christians (Serbs and Romanians) and its capital was Temeşvar (Timişoara), now in Romania.

[edit] Beylerbeyleri (governors) of the Eyalet of Temeşvar

• Kazim-beg (1552-1554).

[edit] See also

• Banat
• Banat of Temeswar
• Ottoman Empire