Erzurum vilayet
| ولايت ارضروم Vilâyet-i Erzurum | |||||||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1875–1923 | |||||||||||||
.svg) Erzurum Vilayet in 1900 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Erzurum | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• Muslim, 1914[1] | 673,297 | ||||||||||||
• Greek, 1914[1] | 4,864 | ||||||||||||
• Armenian, 1914[1] | 134,377 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1875 | ||||||||||||
• Declaration of the Republic of Turkey | 1923 | ||||||||||||
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The Vilayet of Erzerum[2] (Template:Lang-ota)[3] was a vilayet (province) of the Ottoman Empire.
The vilayet of Erzurum shared borders with the Persian and Russian empires in the east and north-east, in the north with the Trebizond Vilayet, in the west with the vilayet of Sebastia, and in the south with the vilayets of Bitlis, Mamuret-ül Aziz and Van.
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 29,614 square miles (76,700 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 645,702.[4] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[4] It was one of the six Armenian vilayets in the eastern part of Anatolia, and, prior to World War I, had a large number of Armenians living there.
History
In 1875 the eyalet of Erzurum was divided in six vilayets: Erzurum, Van, Hakkari, Bitlis, Hozat (Dersim) and Kars-Çildir. In 1888 by an imperial order Hakkari was joined to the vilayet of Van, and Hozat to Mamuret ul-Aziz.[5]
The Kars and Çildir regions were lost in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and ceded to the Russian Empire,[6] which administered it as the Kars Oblast until 1917.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks and kazas:[7]
| Erzurum | Erzincan | Doğubeyazıt (Bayezit)
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See also
References
- ^ a b c "1914 Census Statistics" (PDF). Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kars, Transcaucasia". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Hathi Trust Digital Library - Holdings: Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Erzurum
- ^ a b Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460
- ^ Krikorian, Mesrob K. "Armenians in the Service of the Ottoman Empire: 1860-1908".
- ^ Dadrian, Vahakn N. "Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict".
- ^ Mesrob K. Krikorian; Armenians in the service of the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1908; Routledge, 1978
External links
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Erzerum". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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