Arabic: إيالة ديار بكر Eyālet-i Diyār-i Bekr | |||||||||||
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Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||
1515–1846 | |||||||||||
![]() The Diyâr-ı Bekr Eyalet in 1609 | |||||||||||
Capital | Amid (modern Diyarbakır) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | November 4, 1515[1] 1515 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1846 | ||||||||||
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The Eyalet of Diyarbekir (Arabic: إيالة ديار بكر; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت دیاربكر, romanized: Eyālet-i Diyār-i Bekr)[2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 20,332 square miles (52,660 km2),[3] slightly larger than the original Abbasid province in Upper Mesopotamia. In 1846 it was succeeded by the Kurdistan Eyalet.[4]