The kaza was located in the valley of the river Melas (Trk.: Tohma Çayı). Population In 1910, the kaza of Darende had 19,287 inhabitants, of which 9,650 were Armenians, 8,669 Turks and 968 Kurds.[1] According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Armenian pre-war population was just 3,983 inhabitants in two of the kaza’s 46 localities: the administrative seat Darende (2,000 Armenians) and the neighboring village of Ashoti (1,100). Town of Tarent Situated on the banks of the Melas (Tokhma) river, the center of the kaza of Darende / Tarent on the eve of World War I had a population of 4,000 (500 households). [...]
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Kaza Bünyan / Բյունյան – Byunyan
Population At the beginning of the 20th century the kaza of Bünyan had 23,953 inhabitants, of which 11,830 were Armenians, 10,848 Turks and 1,275 Greeks.[1] According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, the kaza’s pre-war Armenian population was 4,781. They resided in five of the kaza’s 91 villages, maintaining six churches[2]: 500 Armenians lived in the administrative seat, the village Bünyan, in Gigi (pop. 350), Sanoğlan (pop. 336), Seveghen (pop. 829), and Ekrek/Akarag (pop. 2,700).[3] Destruction In the beginning of July 1915, some 6,000 people were deported from the neighboring kazas Bünyan and Aziziye via the Gürün route to Akdağ, then to Fırıncılar, [...]
Kaza Kangal / Քանկալ – Qangal / Gankal / Ղանղալ – Ghanghal
Situated in a forested area, the administrative seat, the fortressed town of Kangal, was famous for its wheat, honey and dairy products. According to the Index Anatolicus, the toponym should be Kángara, “which is among the fortified positions of the Paulician rebels based in Divrigi“.[1] Population According to Armenian sources, the population of the kaza in 1910 was 37,801, of which 18,250 were Armenians, 16,885 were Turks, and the rest were Kurds and Circassians.[2] According to the statistics of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople there resided 7,339 Armenians in nine of the 132 localities of the kaza before the First World War, maintaining [...]
Kaza Koçgiri / Քոչկիր – Kochkir / Zara
Situated in the upper valley of the Halys (Kızılırmak), the area of the Ottoman kaza historically belonged to Lesser Armenia (Armenia Minor). Traversed by the road leading from Sivas to Erzurum, the administrative seat Zara was mainly a farming town, but it also served as a way-station, with an immense khan that belonged to the Chil Hovhannesians.[1] Toponym Koçgirî (Kurdish قۆچگری/Qoçgirî; “emigrants”) or also Eşireta Qoçgirî is a former Kurmanji and Zazaki speaking tribal confederation. The toponym is composed of the Kurdish word ‘koç’ (emigration) and the suffix -gir/-kir (participle of take/undertake, i.e., undertaken). Population Armenian population figures differ by a factor of at least [...]
Kaza Divriği / Divrig / Tephrike / Տևրիկ – Tevrik / Devrik
The kaza spread in the eastern part of the province of Sivas (Sebastia), in the valley of the river Tevrik (Trk.: Çaltı Suyu, a right tributary of the Karasu, or western Euphrates). The region has fertile lands, plenty of irrigation water and iron mines. Surrounded by orchards, the kaza‘s administrative seat was also called ‘green Divrik’. Toponym In ancient Greek texts the area is called Apbrike. After the partition of the Roman Empire in 395, it belonged to the Byzantine Empire. The name Apbrike was later adopted for the fortress Tephrike (Armenian: Tevrik, Divrig), strategically located above the narrowest part of the [...]