Diyarbekir Vilayet

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ولايت ديار بكر
Vilâyet-i Diyâr-ı Bekr
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire

1867–1922
 

Location of Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet
Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet in 1892
Capital Diyarbekir[1]
History
 •  Established 1867
 •  Disestablished 1922

The Vilayet of Diyâr-ı Bekr[citation needed] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ديار بكر, Vilâyet-i Diyarbakır‎)[2] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. The vilayet extended south from Palu on the Euphrates to Mardin and Nisibin on the edge of the Mesopotamian plain.[1] After the establishment of Republic of Turkey in 1923, the region was incorporated into the newly created state.

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 18,074 square miles (46,810 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 471,462.[3] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[3]

History

The vilayet of Diyarbakir was created in 1867. In 1879-80 one part of the vilayet, which included Malatya, was made the vilayet of Elazig.[4]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the vilayet:[5]

  1. Diyarbekir Sanjak (Diyarbakır, Lice, Silvan, Derik, Beşiri)
  2. Mardin Sanjak (Mardin, Cizre, Midyat, Savur, Nusaybin)
  3. Ergani Sanjak (Maden, Palu)
  4. Siverek Sanjak (Split from Diyarbekir in 1907) (Siverek, Çermik, Viranşehir)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1  Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Hathi Trust Digital Library - Holdings: Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Diyarbakır.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. Diyarbekir Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet
  • Hakan Özoğlu, "Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State" SUNY, 2004

External links

  •  Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

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