Eyalets, also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were the primary administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1692, divided into Beylerbeyliks, Protectorates and tributary states. by Guillaume Sanson (1633–1703).
The 1803 Cedid Atlas, showing the Middle Eastern eyalets
Eyalets in the 17th century
Beylerbey was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuks and the Ilkhanids to Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Initially designating a commander-in-chief, it eventually came to be held by senior provincial governors. In Ottoman usage, where the rank survived the longest, it designated the governors-general of some of the largest and most important provinces, although in later centuries it became devalued into a mere honorific title. The title is originally Turkic and its equivalents in Arabic were amir al-umara, and in Persian, mir-i miran.
Depiction of the beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet (1657)
Daud Khan Undiladze, ghilman and the beylerbey of Ganja and Karabakh from 1625 to 1630.