Ottoman Cyprus
| Eyalet-i Ḳıbrıṣ 1571–1670 1745–1748 Sancağı Ḳıbrıṣ 1670–1703 1784–1878 | |||||||||
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| Eyalet/Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1571–1878 | |||||||||
Ottoman Cyprus in 1609 in red. The rest of the Ottoman Empire in light-yellow | |||||||||
| Capital | Nicosia | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1571 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1878 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Cyprus Northern Cyprus Akrotiri and Dhekelia | ||||||||
| History of Cyprus |
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| Cyprus portal |
The Eyalet of Cyprus (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت قبرص, Eyālet-i Ḳıbrıṣ) was an eyalet/province of the Ottoman Empire made up of the island of Cyprus, which was annexed into the Empire in 1571. The Ottomans changed the way they administered Cyprus multiple times. It was a sanjak/sub-province (سانجاغى قبرص, Sancağı Ḳıbrıṣ) of the Eyalet of the Archipelago from 1670 to 1703, and again from 1784 to 1878; a fief of the Grand Vizier (1703–1745 and 1748–1784); and again an eyalet for the short period from 1745 to 1748.