Under the Ottomans the area was known as the sanjak (or governorate) of Alexandretta. It became the head of a sanjak in the Ottoman Erzurum Vilayet. The capital of the sanjak was Hozat. It was kaza centre in Sanjak of Syrmia. This marked the end of the Sanjak. Ibrahim Bey of the Sanjak of Lika managed to escape. The state also had access to sea via the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta. Over 60% of cultivated land in the Jerusalem Sanjak was "waqf" land. As Mezistre, it was the seat of a Turkish sanjak. The province is the successor of the Ottoman-era Sanjak of Kocaeli. Central Vardar and the eastern half of the Sanjak of Novi Pazar were acquired. It was also the central sanjak in the Bosnia Eyalet. It was transformed into the Sanjak of Bosnia and the Sanjak of Herzegovina after 1462/1463. It was designated a province in Najd under the control of the sanjak of Najd. Around 1393 it became the seat of newly established Sanjak of Sofia.