Vilayet Erzurum

The Vilayet Erzurum 1900.

Map of the Vilayet Erzurum from 1890

The Vilayet of Erzurum ( Ottoman ولايت ارضروم İA Vilāyet-i Erżurūm ) was a province ( Vilâyet ) of the Ottoman Empire . It was one of the Six Armenian Vilayets in the eastern part of Anatolia and had a large Armenian population until the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 .

The Vilayet Erzurum bordered both the Persian and Russian Empire to the east and northeast , the Vilayet Trebizond to the north, the Vilayet Sebastia to the west and the Vilayets of Bitlis , Mamuret-ül Aziz and Van to the south . After the Russian Turkish War of 1877/1878 , the Kars region was ceded to the Russian Empire, which administered it as Kars Oblast until 1917 .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Vilâyet Erzurum covered an area of ​​29,614 km².

population

In 1914 a total of 673,297 of the population were Muslim , 134,277 Armenians, and only 4,864 Pontic Greeks .

Administrative division

Sanjaks and Kazas:

Erzurum Erzurum Ovacık Kiğı Tercan Hınıs Tortum Kiskim Hasankale ( Pasinler )

Ersindjan Ersindjan Refahiye Kuruçay Kemah Bayburt İspir

Bayezite Bayezite Diyadin Karakilise Eleşkirt Entap

literature

• Charles William Wilson, Francis Richard Maunsell: Erzerum . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 9 : Edwardes - Evangelical Association . London 1910, p. 758–759 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Mesrob K. Krikorian: Armenians in the service of the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1908 . Routledge, 1978
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Turks: Population Census Statistics 1914. (PDF) (No longer available online.) General Staff of Turkey , pp. 605–606 , archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; Retrieved January 29, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.