Damascus Eyalet was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 51,900 square kilometres (20,020 sq mi). It became an eyalet after the Ottomans took it from the Mamluks following the 1516–1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War. Janbirdi al-Ghazali, a Mamluk traitor, was made the first beylerbey of Damascus. The Damascus Eyalet was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Syria Vilayet.
Palestine with the Hauran and the adjacent districts, William Hughes 1843
Eyalets, also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were the primary administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1692, divided into Beylerbeyliks, Protectorates and tributary states. by Guillaume Sanson (1633–1703).
The 1803 Cedid Atlas, showing the Middle Eastern eyalets
Eyalets in the 17th century