Vilayet of Sivas

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Vilayet of Sivas
Capital city	Sivas
Area	83,700km²
Population Density	507,000 6.1 p/km²
Major towns	Sivas, Şebinkarahisar, Amasya, Divriği, Tokat, Gürün
Ethnic composition[1] Armenians Turks Kurds Circassians Others	- 165,000 (32.5%) - 192,000 (37.9%) - 50,000 (9.9%) - 45,000 (8.9%) - 55,000 (10.8%)
Dates of existence	16th century to 1918

The Vilayet of Sivas, (Ottoman Turkish سیواس, Armenian: Սեբաստիայի վիլայեթ "Sebastiayi vilayet") was a province of the Ottoman Empire. Sivas was also one of the Six Armenian Vilayets.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Population 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Geography

In the 19th century the vilayet of Sivas comprised four sanjaks (counties): Sivas, Tokat, Amasya, and Shebin-Karahisar. These sanjaks were further subdivided into kazas (districts). The province was bordered by the vilayet of Erzurum to the east, Vilayet of Mamûretü'l-Azîz to the south-east, the vilayet of Trabzon to the north and the vilayet of Ankara to the west. These comprised historical Lesser Armenia and Second Armenia.

[edit] Population

19th century Ottoman population statistics are unreliable and vary. Their figures suggest that the Sivas vilayet before 1915 had a total population of between 1,170,000 and 1,470,000. Most of the population was Turkish, the number of Armenians was between 152,000 and 200,000, and other minority groups included Kurds, Greeks and Syriac Orthodox Christians. Most Armenians lived in the Sivas Sanjak. The vilayet's capital, the city of Sivas, had a population of about 45,000, with more than a third being Armenian.

During its history, the vilayet of Sivas had 3, 4 or 7 sanjaks. These included Sivas, Arapgir, Amasya, Canik and Çorum. At the end of the nineteenth century there were 4,7691 villages.

[edit] See also

• Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire
• The Six Armenian Vilayets
• Western Armenia
• Sivas Province (in the Republic of Turkey)

[edit] References

v • d • e Six Armenian Vilayets The Six Vilayets Vilayet of Van (Van · Hakkâri) Vilayet of Erzurum (Erzurum · Bayazet · Erzincan) Vilayet of Mamûretü'l-Azîz (Mamûretü'l-Azîz · Malatya · Dersim) Vilayet of Bitlis (Bitlis · Muş · Genç · Siirt) Vilayet of Diyarbekir (Diyarbakır · Mardin · Ergani) Vilayet of Sivas (Sivas · Şebinkarahisar · Amasya)

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