Lahsa Eyalet
Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1560 to 1670 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Al-Ahsa Eyalet" redirects here. For other uses, see Al-Ahsa (disambiguation).
Lahsa Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الأحساء; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت لحسا, romanized: Eyālet-i Laḥsā)[1] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The territory of the former eyalet is now part of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar. Al-Ahsa and Qatif were the main cities of the eyalet, and it was named after the former.
Quick Facts Arabic: إيالة الأحساء, History ...
Arabic: إيالة الأحساء | |||||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
1560–1670 | |||||||||||
The al-Hasa region (1855) | |||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1560 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1670 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Bahrain Kuwait Saudi Arabia |
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The area was occupied by Ottoman forces in the middle of the 16th century, and it would be administered by them, with varying degrees of effectiveness, for the next 130 years.[2]