Immediately after the Ottoman capture of the Dalmatian hinterland and Lika from the Kingdom of Croatia and the Republic of Venice in the 1520s, they organized it as a borderland entity and named it the Vilayet of "Croats" (Turkish: Hırvat, Croatian: Hrvati).

[5] This territory was administratively governed as the Croatian vilayet which belonged to the Sanjak of Bosnia and listed as such in its 1530 defter (tax registry).

Most of the Ottoman soldiers registered before the battle were labelled as Bosnians or Croats, designating the territory they were recruited at.

[7] All of them had Muslim names, which proves that the process of Islamization of the newly conquered population was much faster than earlier assumed.

[7] The Croatian vilayet was disestablished when it was annexed by the newly established Sanjak of Klis in 1537.