Sivas Vilayet

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ولايت سيوس‎
Vilâyet-i Sivas'
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
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1867–1922 →
Sivas Vilayet in 1900
Capital Sivas[1]
History
 - Established 1867
 - Disestablished 1922
Population
 - Muslim, 1914[2] 939,735 
 - Greek, 1914[2] 75,324 
 - Armenian, 1914[2] 147,099 

The Vilayet of Sivas[1] (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت سيوس, Vilâyet-i Sivas;[3]) was one of the vilayets of the Ottoman Empire, and was one of the Six Armenian vilayets.[4] The vilayet was bordered by Erzurum Vilayet to the east, Mamuretülaziz Vilayet to the south-east, the Trebizond Vilayet to the north and Ankara Vilayet to the west.

At the beginning of the 20th century it had an area of 32,308 square miles (83,680 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 996,126.[5] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[5]

History

For the early history of the area see Rûm Eyalet.

The Vilayet of Sivas was created in 1867[6] when eyalets were replaced with vilayets under the "Vilayet Law" (Turkish: Teskil-i Vilayet Nizamnamesi)[7] and was dissolved in 1922 by Atatürk's reorganization following World War I.

From 1913 to 1916, Ahmed Muammer was the governor (Turkish vali) of the vilayet, and he has been accused of being complicit in actions against the Armenian population.[8]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[9]

  1. Sanjak of Sivas
  2. Sanjak of Amasya
  3. Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarki
  4. Sanjak of Tokad (Created from Sivas sanjak in 1880 and gained Zile kaza from Amasya one in 1907)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geographical Dictionary of the World, p. 1715, at Google Books
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "1914 Census Statistics". Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
  3. ↑ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Sivas ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Sivas"), Sivas vilâyet matbaası, Sivas, 1293 [1876]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Libray.
  4. ↑ Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob (2011) Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule, 1908-1914 (revised edition) Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, page 152, ISBN 978-1-4128-4245-7
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Keane, A.H. (1909) Asia (2nd edition) E. Stanford, London, volume 1, page 459, OCLC 22417637
  6. ↑ (1897) Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye’nin Bin Üçyüz Onüç Senesine Mahsus İstatistik-i Umumîsi, Istanbul(First statistical yearbook for the Ottoman Empire, republished in 1997 as Osmanlı Devleti'nin ilk istatistik yıllığı, 1897 T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü, Ankara, ISBN 978-975-19-1793-5
  7. ↑ Kapucu, Naim and Palabiyik, Hamit (2008) Turkish Public Administration: From Tradition to the Modern Age International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), Ankara, page 164, ISBN 978-605-4030-01-9
  8. ↑ "on the basis of incriminating telegrams that his dossier referred to as alleged to be translations of Turkish official telegrams." Lewy, Guenter (2005) The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey: a disputed genocide University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 125, ISBN 978-0-87480-849-0
  9. ↑ Sivas Vilayeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet

External links

Public Domain Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sivas, Asia Minor (Vilayet)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press 

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