I jednom da se raščisti gde je Petrova Gora, severna granica Hrvatske sa Ugarskom:
Immediately after the Ottoman capture of the
Dalmatian hinterland and
Lika from the
Kingdom of Croatia and the
Republic of Venice in the 1520s, they organized it as a
borderland entity and named it the Vilayet of "Croats" (
Turkish:
Hırvat,
Croatian:
Hrvati).
[2][3] The southern border of the territory of this vilayet was river Cetina while north-western border was
Lika and river
Zrmanja.
[3][4] It also included region around river
Krka.
[5] This territory was administratively governed as the Croatian vilayet which belonged to the
Sanjak of Bosnia and listed as such in its 1530
defter (tax registry).
[6]
Administration
The capital of the vilayet was
Sinj. Its territory was under the jurisdiction of the Skradin
kadiluk. Aličić claimed that territories of the Croatian vilayet and Skradin kadiluk were the same and that the official Ottoman administrative unit, Croatian vilayet, was under administrative-judicial jurisdiction of Skradin.
[7][8]
In 1528 the Croatian vilayet and
kadiluk of Skradin had the following
nahiyahs:
[9][10]
The first governor of the Croatian vilayet was
Malkoč-beg.
[11] Around 1537 the governor of the Croatian vilayet was Mahmud Bey.
[1] Many soldiers from the vilayet participated at the
Battle of Mohács. Most of the Ottoman soldiers registered before the battle were labelled as Bosnians or Croats, designating the territory they were recruited at.
[7] All of them had Muslim names, which proves that the process of
Islamization of the newly conquered population was much faster than earlier assumed.
[7]
The Croatian vilayet was disestablished when it was annexed by the newly established
Sanjak of Klis in 1537.
[12][13]
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