[[File:1855 Colton Map of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria - Geographicus - TurkeyIraq-colton-1855.jpg|thumb|Kürdistan eyaletinin 1855 Osmanlı haritasında konumu]]
'''Kürdistan Eyaleti''' (Osmanlıca: {{rtl-lang|ota|ايالت كردستان}}, ''Eyâlet-i Kurdistân''<ref name="Hasan">Hakan Özoğlu, ''Osmanlı devleti ve Kürt milliyetçiliği'', Kitap Yayinevi, 2005, ISBN 978-975-6051-02-3, [http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=IA4z1ryrhNQC&pg=PA89&dq=%22Ey%C3%A2let-i+Kurdistan%22&hl=tr&ei=tg-4TOWOJsilcOuuvIoN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 89.] {{Tr icon}}</ref>) existed from 1847 to'den 1867'ye kadar sürmüştür.({{#EXPR:1867-1847}} yıl). Confusingly, some neighbouring eyalets, such as [[Sharazor Eyalet|Sharazor]], were also sometimes referred to as "Kurdistan".<ref name="bo-1815">[http://www.archive.org/stream/systemofuniversa02balbiala#page/647/mode/1up System of universal geography founded on the works of Malte-Brun and Balbi] — Open Library (p. 647)</ref> It1847 was established by the [[Ottoman Empire]] following the suppression ofyılında [[Bedirhan Bey's revolt]] inisyan 1847etmiştir. On14 December 14,Aralık 1847, the Ottomantarihli StateOsmanlı newspapergazetesinde - [[Takvim-i Vekayi]] Gazetesi - carriedResmi anolarak official"Kürdistan noticeEyaleti" announcingadında thebir establishmentil of 'the Province of Kurdistan'kuruldu.<ref>Emir Bedirhan Lütfi Ahmad Ramiz bgst 2007 p. 113 (translation of ''Takvim-i Vekayi'')</ref> The area of the [[eyalet]] was populatedBu mainlyeyalette byKürtçe Kurdishkonuşan speakingmüslümanlar Muslimsvardı. As to its yearbook, it included Hakkâri, Dêrsîm, Diyâr-ı Bekr in 1849.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} The territorial setup was later altered and it was disbanded in 1867.<ref>Hakan Özoğlu, ''Osmanlı devleti ve Kürt milliyetçiliği'', Kitap Yayinevi, 2005, ISBN 978-975-6051-02-3, p. 86.</ref>
