Sanjak of Krka


Sanjak of Krka was a frontier sanjak of the Ottoman Empire.

History

In 1580, Ferhad Pasha Sokolović became the first governor of the Beylerbeylik of Bosnia. The Bosnia Eyalet comprised a total of ten sanjaks: Sanjak of Bosnia, Sanjak of Herzegovina, Sanjak of Vučitrn, Sanjak of Prizren, Sanjak of Klis, Sanjak of Krka, and Sanjak of Pakrac.
The sanjak had territory from Lika to Krbava, and the areas between Zrmanja and Krka, and had its seat in Knin. It was formed out of territories that had been part of the Sanjak of Klis and Sanjak of Bosnia.
The sanjak had 30 nahiye.

Governors

Sometimes known in Serbo-Croatian historiography as "Sanjak of Krka and Lika".