Van Eyalet

{{Short description|Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1548 to 1864}}

{{other uses|Van Province (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox former subdivision

|native_name = {{lang|ota|ایالت وان}}
{{lang|ota-Latn|Eyalet-i Van}}

|common_name = Van Eyalet

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|subdivision = Eyalet

|nation = the Ottoman Empire

|year_start = 1548

|year_end = 1864

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|s1 = Van Vilayet

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

|image_map_caption = The Eyalet of Van in 1609

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

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The Van Eyalet ({{langx|ota|ایالت وان|Eyālet-i Vān}}){{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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180044/http://www.geonames.de/coutr-ota-provinces.html|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=dead}} 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.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 lang|tr}} Its reported area in the 19th century was {{convert|9616|sqmi|km2}}.{{Google books|zSNUAAAAYAAJ|The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon, Volume 6|page=698}}

It included territory in Eastern Anatolia, as well as a small part of present-day Iran (the Sanjak of Sero, today in Urmia County).