Çiftçioglu, F2024-07-182024-07-182458-9071http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/1551The sanjak of Trikala entered the Ottoman rule in the late XIV century. The sanjak, one of the initial conquests of the state in the Balkans, remained in the Ottoman administrative division until 1881. Sanjak, which has maintained its status as connected to province of Rumelia until the middle of the XIX century, was one of the administrative units in which administrative changes were applied in the Ottoman provinces with the declaration of Tanzimat. Provinces of Skopje, Bosnia, Ioannina and Thessaloniki were established in 1847 after the decision to shrink Rumelia and build small provinces. Sanjak was firstly connected to Thessaloniki and then to Ioannina. The sanjak itself was promoted to the province for a short while, but it certainly connected to the Province of Ioannina by the 1871 Provincial Regulation. In addition, continuous administrative changes in the sub-units of the sanjak showed that the provincial administration practices of the Tanzimat were not seated. The sanjak, which was able to maintain its status in the IV century, was an Ottoman administrative unit which had many administrative changes in for nearly forty years from the proclamation of the Tanzimat until the sanjak was left to Greece in 1881. This study aims to reveal the innovations and changes brought by the Tanzimat to the Ottoman provincial administration through the Trikala Sanjak. In this context, the administrative changes of the sanjak and the duties of the sanjak councils that help the governance are emphasized. In addition, by giving the whole administrative scheme of the sanjak, it is aimed that the researchers can compare the sanjak of the period with the other sanjaks of the period. Beyond all this, the main purpose of the study is to show that the state is not different from the other sanjaks of the provincial administration understanding on the Balkans.TurkishArticle