The area of the former Çıldır Eyalet is now divided between Samtskhe-Javakheti and the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia and provinces of Artvin, Ardahan and Erzurum in Turkey.

Samtskhe was the only Georgian principality to permanently become an Ottoman province (as the eyalet of Cildir).

[4] The Ottomans took the Ahıska region from the Principality of Meskheti, a vassal state of Safavid dynasty.

In 1578, when the new province was established, they appointed the former Georgian prince, Minuchir (who took the name of Mustafa after converting to Islam) as the first governor.

[citation needed] By the Treaty of Adrianople, much of the pashalik was ceded to Russia, and became part of the Russian Akhalzik uezd (district) of Kutaisi Governorate.