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]
History
The
Ramadanids played a key role in 15th-century Ottoman-
Mamluk relations, being a buffer state located in the Mamluk
al-'Awasim frontier zone. In 1517,
Selim I incorporated the beylik into the Ottoman Empire after his
conquest of the Mamluk state. The
beys of Ramadanids held the administration of the Ottoman
sanjak of
Adana in a hereditary manner until 1608.
^Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999,
ISBN975-6782-09-9, p. 95. (in Turkish)