The List of Governors of Kastamonu Province According to Ottoman Yearbooks

In this paper, the list of names and titles, ranks and terms of office of governors chronologically named as vali/mutasarrıf/vali of Kastamonu eyâlet (province named as vilâyet after 1867) of the 19th century Ottoman Empire tried to be stated based on both Sâlnâme-i Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniye also known as devlet sâlnâmes (Ottoman state yearbooks from 1847 to 1918) and yearbooks of Kastamonu vilâyet sâlnâmesi (yearbooks of Kastamonu province from 1869 to 1903) which provided us with a great deal of information relating to the administrative departments of the vilâyet that includes lists of officials. It also aims to contribute to the prosopographical studies of the Ottoman governors