Rûm Eyalet

{{Short description|1398–1864 Ottoman province in northern Anatolia}}

{{other uses|Rum (disambiguation)}}

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|native_name = Eyâlet-i Rûmiyye-i Suğra / Eyâlet-i Sivas

|common_name = Eyalet of Rûm / Eyalet of Sivas

|subdivision = Eyalet

|nation = the Ottoman Empire

|year_start = 1398

|year_end = 1864

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|p1 = Kadi Burhan al-Din

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|s1 = Sivas Vilayet

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|image_map = Sivas Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (1609).png

|image_map_caption = The Eyalet of Sivas in 1609

|capital = Amasya, Tokat, Sivas{{Google books|-70sAQAAIAAJ|Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial... By John Macgregor|page=12}}

|today = Turkey

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File:East Anatolian rug (detail), Şarkişla-Sivas region.jpg

The Eyalet of Rûm ({{langx|ota|ایالت روم}}; {{lang|ota-Latn|Eyālet-i Rūm}};{{cite web|title=Some Provinces of the Ottoman Empire|url=http://www.geonames.de/coutr-ota-provinces.html|publisher=Geonames.de|access-date=25 February 2013}} originally Arabic for Eastern Roman Empire), later named as the Eyalet of Sivas ({{langx|ota|ایالت سیواس}}; {{lang|ota-Latn|Eyālet-i Sīvās}}), was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire in northern Anatolia, founded following Bayezid I's conquest of the area in the 1390s. The capital was the city of Amasya, which was then moved to Tokat and later to Sivas.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} Its reported area in the 19th century was {{convert|28912|sqmi|km2}}.{{Google books|zSNUAAAAYAAJ|The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6|page=698}}

Rûm was the old Seljuk Turkish designation for Anatolia, referring to the Eastern Roman Empire, and in European texts as late as the 19th-century the word Rûm (or Roum) was used to denote the whole of central Anatolia, not just the smaller area comprising the Ottoman province (see Sultanate of Rum).{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}