Sechs Vilâyets
The Six vilayets or Six provinces (Vorlage:Lang-ota Vilâyat-ı Sitte) or the Six Armenian vilayets (Vorlage:Lang-hy Vets' haykakan vilayet'ner, Vorlage:Lang-tr[1]) were the Armenian-populated vilayets (provinces) of the Ottoman Empire:
The term
The term Six Armenian provinces was first used in the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
Ethnic groups
Reliable population statistcs do not exist. Different versions are shown below.
Note: The analysis excludes certain portions of these provinces where the Armenians are only a minor element. These portions are as follows: Hakkari, in the Vilayet of Van; the south of Sairt, the the Vilayet of Bitlis; the south of Vlayet of Diyarbekir; the south of Malatia, in the Vilayet of Mamouret-ul-Aziz; the north-west and west of the Vilayet of Sivas.
There is no evidence supporting the data of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, as the methods of gathering of data was never cited.[3] Also, the Patriarch had issued statistics of Six Vilayets in 1882 stating a total of 1.63 million Armenians in the area, 2.55 times the number they reached in the 1914 Census Report, but disowned 1882 figures in 1912 to publish new figures.[3][4]
| Ethnic groups | Bitlis | Diyarbekir | Erzurum | Mamuretülaziz | Sivas | Van | TOTAL | % |
| Armenians | 180,000 | 105,000 | 215,000 | 168,000 | 165,000 | 185,000 | 1,018,000 | 38.9 |
| Turks1 | 48,000 | 72,000 | 265,000 | 182,000 | 192,000 | 47,000 | 806,000 | 30.8 |
| Kurds2 | 77,000 | 55,000 | 75,000 | 95,000 | 50,00 | 72,000 | 499,000 | 19.1 |
| Others3 | 30,000 | 64,000 | 48,000 | 5,000 | 100,000 | 43,000 | 290,000 | 11.1 |
| TOTAL | 382,000 | 296,000 | 630,000 | 450,000 | 507,000 | 350,000 | 2,615,000 | 100 |
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- Ottoman official census, 1914[5]
Note: The Ottoman census doesn't give information for separate Muslim ethnic groups such as the Turks, Kurds, Circassians, etc.
MostVorlage:Dubious modern Western scholars agreeVorlage:Dubious that the official Ottoman census underestimated the number of ethnic minorities, including the number of Armenians.[6] In fact Ottoman census didn't define any ethnic groups, only religious ones. So Armenian meant an adherent of Armenian Apostolic Church. Ethnic Armenians who claimed to be Muslims were counted as Muslims, Armenian Protestants as others.
| Ethnic groups | Bitlis | Diyarbekir | Erzurum | Mamuretülaziz | Sivas | Van | TOTAL | % |
| Muslims | 309,999 | 492,101 | 673,297 | 446,376 | 939,735 | 179,380 | 3,040,888 | 79.6 |
| Armenians | 119,132 | 65,850 | 136,618 | 87,862 | 151,674 | 67,792 | 628,928 | 16.5 |
| Others | 44,348 | 4,020 | 5,797 | 4,047 | 78,173 | 11,969 | 148,354 | 3.9 |
| TOTAL | 473,479 | 561,971 | 815,712 | 538,285 | 1,169,582 | 259,141 | 3,818,170 | 100 |
- Maps
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1893-96, Armenian population -
The Armenian population of the eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire in 1870s. (in Armenian)
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Armenian population in the Six vilayets.
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See also
- Western Armenia
- Wilsonian Armenia
- Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Armenian population
- Administration for Western Armenia
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Russian Armenia
References
- ↑ Vorlage:Tr icon İsmail Soysal, Türkiye'nin Siyasal Andlaşmaları, I. Cilt (1920-1945), Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1983, p. 14.
- ↑ "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916" by JAMES VISCOUNT BRYCE, London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1916
- ↑ a b Justin McCarthy: Muslims and Minorities : The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire. New York University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87150-963-6, S. 56–59.
- ↑ Servet Mutlu: LATE OTTOMAN POPULATION AND ITS ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION. In: Turkish Journal of Population Studies. 25. Jahrgang, Nr. 1. Nüfusbilim Dergisi, 2003, S. 21 (edu.tr [PDF; abgerufen am 3. November 2011]): „There is no evidence supporting the Patriarch’s numbers. Conceivably they could have been based on church registers. But to date, neither any local church register nor any document showing the summation of local registers at the Patriarchate in İstanbul has been produced as proof (McCarthy, 1998a, pp.56- 59). More important, even if such records of the Armenian population existed, how could the local priests, and hence the Patriarch who would be getting his numbers from them, ever know how many Muslims existed short of a census. Yet, the census figures belie the Patriarch’s . Hence, the Patriarch’s figures were nothing but politically motivated constructions."“
- ↑ 1914 Census Statistics. Turkish General Staff, S. 603–628, abgerufen am 29. Januar 2011.
- ↑ Steven T. Katz,The Holocaust in Historical Context, 1994, p. 86 ...indicates (based on 1919 British estimates) that though Ottoman data were generally reliable Vorlage:Underline...