Van vilayet
The Vilayet of Van (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت وان, romanized: Vilâyet-i Van; Armenian: Վանի վիլայեթ, romanized: Vani vilayet) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of the 20th century, it reportedly had a population of about 400,000 and an area of 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2). Van Vilayet was one of the six Armenian vilayets and held, prior to the Armenian genocide during World War I, possessed a majority Armenian population, as well as Kurdish, Assyrian and Azeri minorities.
| ولايت وان Vilâyet-i Van | |||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1875–1922 | |||||||||
The Van Vilayet in 1900 | |||||||||
| Capital | Van | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• Muslim, 1914 | 179,982 | ||||||||
• Armenian, 1914 | 67,792 | ||||||||
• Jewish, 1914 | 1,383 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1875 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1922 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
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