. "Eyalet of Van"@en . "Eyalet-i Van"@en . . . "The eyalet of Van (Ottoman Turkish: \u0627\u06CC\u0627\u0644\u062A \u0648\u0627\u0646; Ey\u0101let-i V\u0101n\u200E) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was Van. It was formed in 1548 as the one of the Beylerbeyliks of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 9,616 square miles (24,910 km2)."@en .