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.
| Sanjak of Serfiğe Ottoman Turkish: Liva-i Serfiğe | |||||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1881–1912 | |||||||||||
.svg) Sanjak of Serfiğe, darkest green, late 19th century | |||||||||||
| Capital | Servia | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1881 | ||||||||||
| 1912 | |||||||||||
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| Today 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
edit- ^ Birken, Andreas [in German] (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.
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