Eğri Eyalet or Pashaluk of Eğri was an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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 formed in 1596 with its capital at Eğri

Eger

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 (Hungarian: Eger). It included parts of present-day Hungary

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, Slovakia

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, Romania

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, and Serbia

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.

The population of the province was ethnically and religiously diverse and included Slovaks

Slovaks

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 and Hungarians (living mainly in the north), Serbs

Serbs

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 (living mainly in the south), and Muslims of various ethnic origins (living mainly in the cities). Other ethnic communities included Jews

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 and Roma

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Administrative divisions

The province included following sanjaks:

1. Sanjak of Segedin (Szeged
   Szeged
   ' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
   
   )
2. Sanjak of Sonluk (Szolnok
   Szolnok
   Szolnok is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. Its location on the banks of the Tisza river, at the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain, has made it an important cultural and economic crossroads for centuries....
   
   )
3. Sanjak of Seçen (Szécsény
   Szécsény
   -History :The valley of the Ipoly and especially the area of that around Szécsény was inhabited even in the prehistoric age. Findings attest that the region was peopled from the Neolithic period. Teutons, Avars, and Slavs appeared here in the first millennium BC....
   
   )
4. Sanjak of Hatvan
5. Sanjak of Kerman
6. Sanjak of Novigrad (Nograd
   Nógrád
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   )
7. Sanjak of Filek (Filakovo
   Filakovo
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   )

See also

• Long War (Ottoman wars)
  Long War (Ottoman wars)
  The Long War took place from 1591 or 1593 to 1604 or 1606 and was one of the numerous military conflicts between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire that developed after the Battle of Mohács.- History :The major participants of this war were the Habsburg Monarchy ,...
  
  
• Ottoman Hungary
  Ottoman Hungary
  History of Ottoman Hungary refers to the history of parts of the Ottoman Empire situated in what today is Hungary, in the period from 1541 to 1699.-History:...
  
  
• Ottoman Serbia