Diyarbekir Vilayet

ولايت ديار بكر‎ Vilâyet-i Diyâr-ı Bekr
Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire
← 1867–1922 →   →
Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet in 1892
Capital		Diyarbekir[1]
History
•	Established	1867
•	Disestablished	1922

The Vilayet of Diyâr-ı Bekr (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت ديار بكر, Vilâyet-i Diyarbakır‎)^[2] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire. The vilayet extended south from Palu on the Euphrates to Mardin and Nisibin on the edge of the Mesopotamian plain.^[1] 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.^[3] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.^[3]

History

The vilayet of Diyarbakir was created in 1867. In 1879-80 one part of the vilayet, which included Malatya, was made the vilayet of Elazig.^[4]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the vilayet:^[5]

1. Diyarbekir Sanjak (Diyarbakır, Lice, Silvan, Derik, Beşiri)
2. Mardin Sanjak (Mardin, Cizre, Midyat, Savur, Nusaybin)
3. Ergani Sanjak (Maden, Palu)
4. Siverek Sanjak (Split from Diyarbekir in 1907) (Siverek, Çermik, Viranşehir)

See also

• Massacres of Diyarbakır (1895)
• Six Vilayets

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. 
• Media related to Vilayet of Diyarbekir at Wikimedia Commons

Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire
c. 1365 – 1867 (eyalets) Africa Algiers Egypt Habesh Tripolitania Tunis Anatolia Adana Aidin Anatolia Ankara Childir Diyarbekir Dulkadir Erzurum Hüdavendigâr Karaman Kars Kastamonu Rum Trebizond Van Europe Adrianople Archipelago Bosnia Budin Crete Egir Herzegovina Kanije Kefe Morea Niš Podolia Rumelia Salonica Silistra Temeşvar Uyvar Varat Widdin Yanina Middle East Aleppo Baghdad Basra Cyprus Damascus Lahsa Mosul Rakka Shahrizor Sidon Tripoli Yemen
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See also the list of short-lived Ottoman provinces

Six Armenian vilayets of the Ottoman Empire
Van Vilayet Van Hakkâri Erzurum Vilayet Erzurum Bayezit Erzincan Kars (Between 1845-1878) Ardahan (Between 1845-1878) Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet Mamuretülaziz Malatya Dersim Bitlis Vilayet Bitlis Muş Genç Siirt Diyâr-ı Bekr Vilayet Diyarbakır Mardin Ergani Sivas Vilayet Sivas Kara Hisar-i Şarkî Amasya Tokat (after 1880)