Diyarbekir Vilayet

For other uses, see Province of Diyarbakir (disambiguation).

ولايت ديار بكر‎ Vilâyet-i Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire ← 1864–1922 → Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet in 1900 Capital Diyarbekir History  - Established 1864  - Disestablished 1922 Population  - Muslim, 1914 492,101   - Greek, 1914 1,935   - Armenian, 1914 65,850   - Jewish, 1914 2,085

The Vilayet of Diyâr-ı Bekr^{[citation needed]} (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ديار بكر, Vilâyet-i Diyarbakır) was one of the Ottoman vilayets. The vilayet extended south from Palu on the Euphrates to Mardin and Nisibin on the edge of the Mesopotamian plain. After the establishment of Republic of Turkey in 1923, the region was incorporated into the newly created state.

At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 18,074 square miles (46,810 km²), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 471,462. The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:

1. Sanjak of Diyarbekir
2. Sanjak of Mardin
3. Sanjak of Ergani

See also

• Massacres of Diyarbakir (1895)

References

• Hakan Özoğlu, "Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State" SUNY, 2004

External links

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Diarbekr". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.