| ایالت وان Eyalet-i Van | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1548–1864 | |||||||||
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| The Eyalet of Van in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Van | ||||||||
| 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) 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. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,616 square miles (24,910 km2).
It included territory in Western Armenia (now the Eastern Anatolia region in Turkey) as well as a small part of present-day Iran (the Sanjak of Sero, today in Urmia County).
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