Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Siirt Covering a territory of 11,300 square kilometers, Siirt was a district in Western Armenia, in the province of Bitlis, situated in the valleys of the Tigris and the Redvan tributaries. The relief is mountainous, the average height is 1100 m. The sancak was rich in fertile lands, had lush pastures, plenty of drinking and irrigation water, and mineral springs. In some places they even harvested three times. The province had a diversified economy. The main occupation of the population was agriculture and cattle breeding. In addition, the population was engaged in viticulture, fruit growing, [...]
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Sancak Muş / Մուշ – Mush
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Mush Administration In the 16-18th centuries the sancak of Mush was a part of Van (Kurdistan) Province. In the 19th century it was integrated into the Bitlis vilayet. As of the early 20th century, the sancak was sub-divided into 5 the five kazas of Mush, Bulanık, Malazgirt (Manazkert), Vardo and Genç, which together comprised 567 settlements. The southern part of the district consisted of the Armenian Taurus and the Sasun mountain ranges, and the eastern part of the Kopi mountain range. The highest peaks were Andok, Kepin, Kurtik, and Maratuk. In the west is the Mush [...]
Sancak Genç / Արդուշեն – Ardushen
Armenians from the kaza of Pasur (Khulp) The sancak Genç was composed of the three kazas Genç (Ardushen), Pasur [Bassor; Khulp] as well as Chapaghjur (Ճապաղջուր). Destruction „The sancak of Genç, traversed by the eastern Euphrates, lay at the northwestern-most tip of the vilayet of Bitlis. It had lost the great bulk of its Armenian population to massacres or Islamization in 1895. In 1915, there were only 23 modest Armenian localities left in the sancak, with a total Armenian population of 4,344. The Armenians feeble numbers facilitated the task of the main local Young Turk leaders – the parliamentary deputy Çerkez Ahmed Emin [...]
Trebizond / Trapezounta – Τραπεζούντα / Trabzon Vilayet (Province)
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Trapezunta The Province (Vilayet) of Trabzon (Trapezunta) Administrative Division Located on the southern Black Sea coast and named after its capital, the province was created in 1867 in the course of the Ottoman administrative reform as the successor to the former Eyalet Trabzon and initially comprised the three sancaks Trabzon, Gümüşhane (Grk.: Agyroupolis) and Lazistan (Rize); this sancak in the very east of the province was created after the Russian-Ottoman war of 1877/8. In 1889, the sancak Canik with the capital Samsun was added to the west, so that the province covered a total area of [...]
Kastamonu Vilayet (Province) / Κασταμονή – Kastamoni / Kastambol / Kastambolu
Map of the Kastamonu Province (Vital Cuinet; source: https://alchetron.com/Kastamonu-Vilayet) The vilayet was not known for large agricultural production, despite being described as having fertile ground in 1920. Most agricultural production is kept within the vilayet, being consumed by the population. What was produced, included wheat, barley, maize, chickpeas, gall, and valonia oak. A small amount of opium and cotton was also produced in the region. Silk production was active in the southern area on a small scale, as was livestock. The area used to mine lead and nickel. Cloth was also being produced in the Kastamonu Vilayet, made from wool and goat [...]