[1] In the 15th century, the region of Kavala was known for its cereal and silk production, but chiefly for its silver mines.
[1] The sanjak is attested by Leunclavius in 1588, and again in the seventh volume of Evliya Çelebi's travel books as a province of the Eyalet of the Archipelago, but in the fifth volume of the same work simply as a captaincy of the Sanjak of Gallipoli.
[2] At the time of Evliya Çelebi's visit, it comprised 12 ziamets and 235 timars and was subdivided into seven kazas.
[1] In the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, Drama was a sanjak of the Rumeli Eyalet;[2] its revenue was usually granted to the pasha of Salonica, who governed the sanjak through a fiscal agent (mütesellim).
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