OTTOMAN AND SAFAVID EMPIRES

Ottoman and Safavid Empires

Ottoman and Safavid Empires

Ottoman Empire

The administrative divisions of the state organization of the Ottoman Empire were initially based on a military administration, but also with civilian executive functions. Outside this system were put in place various types of vassal states and tributaries. It is generally considered from the point of view of the administrative organization of the Empire, there were two main periods: the first was the establishment of the system that has evolved with the rise of the Empire and the second was that which resulted from extensive administrative reforms of 1864, which prepared ...