Vilayet Bitlis

The Vilâyet Bitlis, 1892

The Bitlis Province or the Vilâyet of Bitlis , ( Armenian Բիթլիսի վիլայեթ ) was one of the Six Armenian Vilâyets of the Ottoman Empire and had a large Armenian population until the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 .

history

Bitlis was formed as an administrative province after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 . Previously it was part of the sanjak of Mus within the Vilayet of Erzurum.

population

In the years 1878 to 1879 the Vilâyet Bitlis had a population of 400,000 inhabitants, of whom 200,000 were Armenians.

In 1914 there were already 309,999 Muslims and only 117,492 Armenians.

See also

• Bitlis (province) (in the Republic of Turkey)
• Provinces of the Ottoman Empire

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 1914: population census statistics . General Staff of Turkey . Pp. 605-606. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2011.