Eyâlet Kurdistan

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The Ottoman Vilayet Diyâr-ı Bekr around 1900

The Eyâlet Kurdistan ( osm. Eyâlet-i Kurdistan ) was a short-lived Ottoman Eyâlet and was founded on December 13, 1847 after the Bedirxan Beg revolt was put down . The establishment was published on December 14, 1847 in the Ottoman state newspaper Takvim-i Vekayi .

population

The area of ​​the Eyâlets was mainly populated by Kurdish-speaking Muslims. However, the region was also home to oriental Christians and Turkish-speaking Muslims.

history

Initially, the Eyâlet Kurdistan comprised the areas of Diyarbakır, the Sanjaks Van, Muş and Hakkâri and the Kazas (districts) Cizre , Botan and Mardin . In the course of the short existence of the vilayet, the provincial capital changed often. At first it was Ahlat , later Van , Muş and Diyarbakır. In 1856 the Eyâlet was redefined and then dissolved in 1864. The two vilayets Diyarbekir and Van emerged from the Eyâlet .

See also

literature

  • Hakan Özoğlu, "Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State" SUNY, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hakan Özoğlu, Osmanlı devleti ve Kürt milliyetçiliği , Kitap Yayinevi, 2005, ISBN 9789756051023 , page 89.
  2. ↑ Emir Bedirhan Lütfi Ahmad Ramiz, 2007 p. 113 (translation of Takvim-i Vekayi )
  3. ↑ Naci Kutlay: 21. Yüzyila girerken Kürtler ; P. 41