Rûm Eyalet
| Eyâlet-i Rûmiyye-i Suğra / Eyâlet-i Sivas | |||||||||
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1398–1864 | |||||||||
The Eyalet of Sivas in 1609 | |||||||||
| Capital | Amasya, Tokat, Sivas | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1398 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
The Eyalet of Rûm (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت روم; Eyālet-i Rūm; originally Arabic for Eastern Roman Empire), later named as the Eyalet of Sivas (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت سیواس; 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. Its reported area in the 19th century was 28,912 square miles (74,880 km2).
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).