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56 8AM1I OZHAUAN Hi
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the documents existing in the State Archives of Istanbul, were Garriif,
Hem mar, Madina, Fethiyya, Zakiyya, Kurna, Sadr Sovib, Rahmaniyya, i
Turra-i Jczayir, Reyn Kinad( ?), Ma’dan, Vaki, Kmahiyya, Ta^kopru,
Ak^akal’e, Arja, Muharri, Sharir and Jarur.39
The Ottomans had a tersane (dockyard) at Basra; timber for the V
building of now ships was brought from the mountains of Maro§, a
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town situated on the southern edge of the Taurus range in Southern
Asia Minor, down to Iraq through Birojlk on the River Euphrates.40 %
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Siraao da Costa, a Portuguese agent, who was allowed by the pasha of
Basra to visit the tersane in 1563, reports that he saw there five newly
made galleys, tho biggest having twenty-two bonches for the oarsmen 4l.
After Basra, Katif played a very important part in the conflict with
tho Portuguese. It was a second base on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
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Katif was included among the sanjaks of the beylerbeyliJc of Lahsa. At
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first the Ottoman governor of Lahsa held tho rank of a sanjak bey.41 m
A document dating from tho year 967/1655 reveals that sometime
previously the sanjak bey of Lahsa had been raised to the status of
Mir-i Miran, i.e., of beylerbey.43 The eyalet of Lahsa, which extended
as far as Qatar, consisted of the sanjaks of Katif, Hama, Mubarriz (j ^),
Jesha Safia, Jabrayn, Koban, Tahammiyya and Uyun.44

11 Cf. for example, RuCts 225, p. 222 (see Appendix IV); also the Jcanun-ndme
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of Basra of 1574—75 in R. Mantran, “R^glements fiscaux ottoman, La Province -.s
de Bassora (2° moiti6 du XVIs.),*’ in Journal of the Economic and Social History
of the Orient, X/2-3, (Leiden, 1967), pp. 224—277. It is difficult to find some
of the names of the sanjaks on the map. Some of these names seem to have
indicated the Arab tribes in the Jozayir district. Most of them are, however, m
mentioned in tho Vera Deli neat io Ci in tat is Baseorae, Paris, 1680( ?). See the
Catalogue of Printed Maps in the British Museum, 49475 (1). Cf. also S. Ozbaran,
“XVI. Yuzyilda Basra Korfezi Sahillerinde Oamanlilar, Basra Beylerbeyliginin
Kurulu§u,” Tarih Dergisi, 25 (Istanbul, 1971), pp. 67ff.
" Istanbul Ba^bakanlik Ar§ivi, Muhimme Defterleri (MB), XXII, p. 70;
also MB, III, pp. 263, 290, cited in C. Orhonlu and T. I§iksal, “Osmanli Bev-
rinde Nehir Nakliyati Hakkinda Ara^tirraalar, Bicle ve Firat Nehirlerindo Nak-
liyat,** in Tarih Dergisi, XIII/17-18, (Istanbul, 1963), p. 79. 1
41 As Oavelas de Torre do Tombo, V, (Lisboa, 1965), p. 140.
41 Istanbul Topkapi Sarayi Kutuphanesi, MS. nu. Koguslar 888, fol. 102r. &
A certain Mehmed Bey held the appointment this time.
41 C. Orhonlu, “1559 Bahreyn Seforine Aid Bir Rapor,” in Tarih Dergisi, ‘ 3
XVH/22, (Istanbul, 1967), p. 6; quoting from MB, II, p. 167.
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44 Cf. RuCis 238, p. 146 (dated 6 §ewal 988/14 November 1580). See also J. S.
Mandaville, “The Ottoman Province of al-Hasa in the Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth Centunoe,” in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 90/3, (1970), p.
488.

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