Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Harput / Kharberd The Vilayet (Province) of Mamuret-ul-Aziz, also referred to as Harput Vilayet (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت معمورة العزيز; Vilâyet-i Ma’mûretül’aziz, Armenian: Խարբերդի վիլայեթ Kharberd) was located between Euphrates and Murat (Aradzan) river valleys. Near the administrative center of Harput (Kharberd; today Elazıg) is Lake Gölcük (auch: Göljuk; Armenian: Ծովք լիճ – Covk’ lič, also: Tsovk; today: Hazar Gölü), notable as the source of the Tigris. Administration In the 18th century, Kharberd (Խարբերդ; Trk: Harput) administratively belonged to the Sivas province. With the administrative division of the Ottoman Empire in 1834, Harput became a sancak of [...]
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Diyarbekir / Diyarbakır Vilayet (Province) /ܐܡܝܕ Āmīd / Omīd
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Diyarbekir Vilayet (Province) of Diyarbekir (Vital Cuinet, 1892; source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyarbekir_Vilayet#/media/File:CUINET(1892)_2.434_Diyarbekir_Vilayet.jpg) Toponym Since ancient times, Amida (Armenian: Amid) is the name of the provincial capital city, whereas Diyâr-bekr, meaning the ‘land of Bekr’, is the name of the region and administrative unit since the 7th century. Bekr [Bakr] was one of the main Arab tribal federations during the founding period of Islam. During the Ottoman period, sometimes the toponym Amid but more often Diyarbekir is used as the name of the settlement. In 1937, by order of Mustafa Kemal, the Diyarbakır writing was adopted. Armenian historians Mateos of [...]
Aleppo / Halep Vilayet (Province)
Map of the Aleppo Province (Vital Cuinet, 1892; source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_Vilayet#/media/File:CUINET(1892)_2.126_Aleppo_Vilayet.jpg) Administration The vilayet was established in March 1866. It covered a territory of 78,490 km2, comprising around 1876 the six sancaks of 1) Aleppo (in 1908 the kazas of Ayintab [Trk.: Antep] and Pazarcık [Bazarcık] from the Maraş sancak were joined to a new sancak) with the kazas of Aleppo, İskenderun (Alexandretta), Antakya, Belen, Idlib, Al-Bab, Jisr al-Shughur, 2) Aintab (with the kazas of Gaziantep, Kilis, Rumkale), 3) Cebelisemaan (kazas Mount Simeon, Maarrat al-Nu’man, Manbij), 4) Maraş (kazas Maraş, Pazarcık, Elbistan, Zeytun, Göksun), 5) Urfa (kazas Urfa, Birecik, Nizip, Suruç, Harran, Raqqa [...]
Sancak Bitlis / Բաղեշ – Baghesh / ܒܝܬ ܠܝܣ Beṯ Dlis
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Bitlis (Baghesh) The sancak comprised the four kazas of Bitlis, Ahlat (Arm.: Khlat), Hizan, and Mutki. The Castle of Bitlis (Source: Center for Information and Documentation on Armenia, Berlin) Destruction “After ‘cleansing’ Siirt of its Armenians and Syriacs (…) Cevdet and his Grace Highley Knapp (September 1885) ‘butchers’ battalions’ promptly set out for Bitlis, with Halil’s Expeditionary Corps hard on their heels, for the Russian troops were also marching on the city. In the regional capital, Vali [governor] Abdülhalik had already taken the initiative of waging a campaign of destruction against the villages in the north. The members of [...]
Bitlis Vilayet (Province) / Բաղեշ – Baghesh / ܒܝܬ ܠܝܣ Beṯ Dlis
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Bitlis (Baghesh) Map of Bitlis Province (Vital Cuinet, 1892; source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitlis_(Provinz)) The Mush Plain is bordered to the south by the Taurus range. In the high valleys of the Taurus, south of this range lies the area of Sasun, which was the scene of the first massive massacres of Armenians under Sultan Abdül Hamid II in the 1890s. Toponym Both the Arabic form of the name Badlîs (Bidlîs) and the original Armenian form Baghaghesh (later shortened to Baghesh) probably go back to Aramaic ‘Balalêsh’. Bitlis is the Ottoman Turkish version of the toponym.[1] Administration The Ottoman Province of Bitlis [...]