Vilayet Dersim

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The Vilayet Dersim was a short-lived Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in eastern Anatolia in the 19th century . It lay between the headwaters of the Euphrates , the Karasu and the Murat . Under the name Çemişgezek , the area was organized as Liwa des Eyâlet Diyarbakır . In the 19th and early 20th century Dersim was as Sanjak the Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet with the administrative center Harput , later Elazig assumed and was organized as a separate Vilayet only in the years 1880-1888. The administrative seat of the Vilayet was Hozat .

After the Koçgiri uprising in 1920, which also affected the Dersim region, the area was divided between the provinces (Vilâyet, İl) Erzincan and Elazığ . In 1936 Dersim became an independent province again under the name Tunceli and was soon shaken by the Dersim uprising in 1937/38 .

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