title: Eyalet of Adrianople
text: # Eyalet of Adrianople
  
  The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne or Çirmen (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne) was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826.
  
  It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Vilayet of Adrianople.
  
  ## Administrative division
  
  The eyalet comprised almost all of the historical geographical region of Thrace, and comprised the following subdivisions (sanjaks or livas):
  
  * Sanjak of Nevahi-i Erbaa (capital: Çatalca)
  * Sanjak of Tekfürtaği (Rodosto) or Vize
  * Sanjak of Gelibolu (Gallipoli)
  * Sanjak of Edirne (Adrianople)
  * Sanjak of Filibe (mod. Plovdiv)
  * Sanjak of Islimiye (mod. Sliven) or Eski Zagra (Stara Zagora)
  
  The sanjaks were further subdivided into 50 kazas or prefectures.
  
  