| ایالت وان Eyalet-i Van | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1548–1864 | |||||||||
.png) The Eyalet of Van in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Van[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1548 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Turkey Iran | ||||||||
The Van Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت وان, romanized: Eyālet-i Vān)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was Van. It was formed in 1548 as one of the Beylerbeyliks of the Ottoman Empire.[3] Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,616 square miles (24,910 km2).[4]
It included territory in Eastern Anatolia, as well as a small part of present-day Iran (the Sanjak of Sero, today in Urmia County).
- ^ Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor, p. 12, at Google Books
- ^ "Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire". Geonames.de. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Orhan Kılıç, XVII. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Osmanlı Devleti'nin Eyalet ve Sancak Teşkilatlanması, Osmanlı, Cilt 6: Teşkilât, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, Ankara, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-09-9, p. 98. (in Turkish)
- ^ The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6, p. 698, at Google Books