Sanjak of Albania
| Sanjak of Albania | |||||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 1415–1444 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Gjirokastër (since 1419) Vlorë (since 1431) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1415 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1444 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Albania Greece | ||||||||||
The Sanjak of Albania (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق آرونید, romanized: Sancâk-ı Arvanid, or آرونید سنجاغی, Arvanid sancâğı; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Arbërisë or Sanxhaku i Shqipërisë) was a second-level administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire between 1415 and 1444. Its mandate included territories of modern central and southern Albania between Krujë to the Kalamas River in northwestern Greece.