The Eyalet of Kars By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge () was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was .
The town of Kars, which had been levelled to the ground by the Timur in 1386, was rebuilt as an Ottoman fortress in 1579 (1580 according to other sources) by Lala Mustafa Pasha, and became capital of an eyalet of six sanjaks and also a place of pilgrimage. By M. Th. Houtsma It was conquered by Shah Abbas in 1604 and rebuilt by the Turks in 1616.
The size of the Kars garrison in 1640s was 1,002 Janissaries and 301 local recruits. Total 1,303 garrison.Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700, Rhoads Murphey, 1999, p.226
In 1845, the eyalet was dissolved and transferred to the Erzurum Eyalet.
Administrative divisions Sanjaks of Kars Eyalet in the 17th century: By Evliya Çelebi, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall Little Erdehan Sanjak (Göle) Hujujan Sanjak (Höçvan)
Zarshad Sanjak (Arpaçay) Kechran Sanjak (Tunçkaya (Keçivan)) Kaghizman Sanjak (Kağızman) Kars Sanjak, the seat of the Pasha
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