Sanjak of Serfiğe

Sanjak of Serfiğe
Ottoman Turkish: *Liva-i Serfiğe*
Sanjak of Serfiğe; Ottoman Turkish: Liva-i Serfiğe
	Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
	1881–1912
	; Sanjak of Serfice, late 19th century
Capital	Servia
History
• Established	1881
• First Balkan War	1912
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Sanjak of Tirhala
	Manastir Vilayet
Kingdom of Greece
Today part of	Greece

The Sanjak of Serfiğe (Greek: Σαντζάκι/Υποδιοίκησις Σερβίων) was a second-level Ottoman province (sanjak or liva) centred on the town of Serfiğe (Servia) in western Macedonia, now part of Greece.

The sanjak was founded in 1881, after the Greek annexation of Thessaly (the sanjak of Tirhala), initially as an independent province, and after 1889 as part of Manastir Vilayet. In 1912, the province encompassed six kazas (districts): Nasliç (Voio), Serfiğe itself, Kozana (Kozani), Kayalar (Ptolemaida), Nasliğ (Neapoli, Kozani), Grebene (Grevena) and Alasonya (Elassona).[1]

The sanjak was conquered by the Greek Army in October 1912, during the First Balkan War.

References

Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches [The Provinces of the Ottoman Empire]. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, 13 (in German). Reichert. p. 72. ISBN 3-920153-56-1.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[Provinzen-1] Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches [The Provinces of the Ottoman Empire]. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, 13 (in German). Reichert. p. 72. ISBN 3-920153-56-1.