1879–1923 → Disestablished 1923 Greek, 1914 971 Capital Elazığ | Established 1879 Muslim, 1914 446,379 Armenian, 1914 79,821 | |
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The Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz, also referred to as Harput Vilayet (Armenian: Խարբերդի վիլայեթ Kharberd) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was also one of the Six vilayets. The vilayet was located between Euphrates and Murat river valleys. To the northwest was Sivas Vilayet.
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History
The vilayet was created in 1879-80 from a part of the Diyarbekir Vilayet that included Malatya. In 1888 by an imperial order Hozat Vilayet was joined to Mamuret ul-Aziz.
Rev. Dr. Herman N. Barnum account of Harpoot in the 1800s,
Demographics
At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 14,614 square miles (37,850 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 575,314. It should be noted that the accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.
In 1912, according to the Russian statistics the vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz had 450,000 residents; 168,000 were Armenians, 182,000 were Turks, 95,000 were Kurds and 5,000 were Syriac Orthodox.
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the vilayet:
- Mamuret-ul-Aziz Sanjak (Elâzığ, Kemaliye, Arapgir, Pütürge)
- Malatya Sanjak (Malatya, Besni, Adıyaman, Kâhta, Akçadağ)
- Dersim Sanjak (Hozat, Tunceli, Çemişgezek, Akpazar, Ovacık, Nazımiye, Mazgirt)