In Fedor Karaczay's 1842 travel memoir, it was reported that the Sanjak of İpek included northeastern Albania and the larger part of the Dukakin plain, and had three kadiluks: Dukakin, İpek, Yakova.[1]
Dukakin was firstly the name of an Ottoman kaza (in the Sanjak of Scutari), then in 1520, a sanjak with the name (Dukakin sancak) was established under the Rumelia Eyalet.[3] The name of the sanjak's seat, İpek, was used interchangeably for the sanjak (İpek sancak).
The Sanjak of İpek was often under direct control of the sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Scutari. In 1536 Ali-beg, then a sanjakbey of İpek, was hanged on the orders of the sultan for mistakes and incompetence in governing his sanjak.[4]
The Christian population of the sanjak often[how often?] rebelled against the Ottoman authorities, especially in the 1550s, because they were unable to pay the newly implemented taxes.[5] During one of these rebellions the sanjakbey of Dukakin, Kasim-beg, was ordered to suppress the rebellion with help of the sanjaks of Scutari (İşkodra) and Durazzo (Dıraç) if needed.[6] In 1690 the sanjakbey Mahmud Pasha Hasanbegović attacked Austrian troops in Peja during the Great Turkish War.[7]
At the end of 1737, sanjak-bey Mahmudbegović devastated Vasojevići and persecuted a lot of people[clarification needed] in the Sanjak of İpek.[8]
^Godisnjak. Sarajevo: Drustvo Istoricara Bosne i Hercegovine. 1950. p. 95. Retrieved 2 August 2011. .у личности султана који их за сваки пропуст може казнити ...објешен пећки санџак-бег Али-бег
^Jugoslovenski istorijski časopis, Volume 17. Savez društava istoričara Jugoslavije. 1978. p. 209. Retrieved 1 August 2011. Tako je beg Dukađina, Kasim-beg , bio zadužen... dizdaru Drača i dizdarima skadarskog sandžaka da pomognu sandžak-begu Dukađina, Kasim-begu
^Zbornik za društvene nauke, Issues 12–15 (in Serbian). Novi Sad: Matica srpska (Novi Sad, Serbia). Odeljenje za društvene nauke. 1956. p. 48. Retrieved 3 August 2011. Пошто је на Призрен напао Дукађински санџак Махмуд-паша Хасанбеговић
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