Nakhchivan Eyalet was possibly an

eyalet Eyalets (, , ), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were the primary administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman local government was loosely structured. The empire was a ...

of the

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. Nakhchivan () was recorded as a beylerbeylik in 1603. In 1591, there were references to a beylerbeylik of

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and Nakhchivan, and scholar Donald E. Pitcher speculates that Nakhchivan may have never been a separate eyalet.

References

Eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in Asia History of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic {{Turkey-hist-stub