Erzurum Eyalet

Erzurum Eyalet
ایالت ارضروم (Ottoman Turkish)
Eyālet-i Erżurūm
Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire
1533–1867

The Erzurum Eyalet in 1609
CapitalErzurum[1]
History 
• Established
1533
• Disestablished
1867
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Safavid Empire
Erzurum Vilayet
Trebizond Eyalet
Today part ofTurkey

The Erzurum Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ارضروم, romanized: Eyālet-i Erżurūm)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the conquest of Western Armenia by the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 11,463 square miles (29,690 km2).[3]

  1. ^ John Macgregor (1850). Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial legislation, customs tariffs, of all nations. Including all British commercial treaties with foreign states. Whittaker and co. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  2. ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon. Blackie. 1862. p. 698. Retrieved 2013-06-01.