Contemporary Maps, Showing Eyalets (pre Tanzimat Reforms)
| Maps of Contemporary Ottoman Syria showing Eyalets (pre 1864 Vilayet Law) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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