قارلی ایلی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Italian Carlo (“Charles”) + ایل (el, “nation, territory”), a name derived from the region's last Christian rulers, Carlo I Tocco or his successor Carlo II Tocco.

Proper noun

قارلی ایلی • (karlı eli, karlı ili)

1. (historical) a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire roughly correspoding to the region of Aetolia-Acarnania, in Greece

Descendants

• Turkish: Karlıeli
• → Greek: Κάρλελι (Kárleli)

Further reading

• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “karlı ili”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 431