| Eyalet-i Adana | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1608–1865 | |||||||||
 The Adana Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Adana [1] | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 36°46′N34°14′E / 36.76°N 34.23°E | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1608 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1865 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
The Eyalet of Adana (Ottoman Turkish : ایالت ادنه; Eyālet-i Adana) [2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, established in 1608, [3] when it was separated from the Eyalet of Aleppo. [4] Its reported area in the 19th century was 11,409 square miles (29,550 km2). [5]
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Sanjaks between 1700 and 1740: [6]
| Sanjaks in the mid-19th century: [7] |
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