Iğdır Province

Coordinates: 39°53′37″N 43°59′52″E / 39.89361°N 43.99778°E / 39.89361; 43.99778
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Iğdır Province
Iğdır ili
Province
Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum
Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum
Location of the province within Turkey
Location of the province within Turkey
CountryTurkey
SeatIğdır
Government
 • GovernorErcan Turan
Area
3,664 km2 (1,415 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
203,594
 • Density56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Area code0476
Websitewww.igdir.gov.tr

Iğdır Province (Turkish: Iğdır ili, Kurdish: Parêzgeha Îdirê,[2] Azerbaijani: Iğdir rayonu, Armenian: Իգդիրի մարզ, romanized: Igdiri marz) is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan (the area of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic), and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars to the northwest and Ağrı to the west and south. Its area is 3,664 km2,[3] and its population is 203,594 (2022).[1] Its population was 168,634 in 2000 and 142,601 in 1990. The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority[4][5] with a pretty close Azerbaijani minority.

The province was created in 1992 from the southeastern part of

Aras River
.

The provincial capital is the city of Iğdır.

Districts

Iğdır province is divided into four districts (capital district in bold):

History

Urartu Cuneiform Argishti

Archaeological research has uncovered

Ak Koyunlu
Turkic tribes in the early 15th century.

For centuries, constant warfare ensued between the two arch rivals, the

Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78
.

Towards the end of World War I, the whole area came under the administration of the

Province of Beyazıt between 1922 and 1927, part of Ağrı Province between 1927 and 1934, and finally part of Kars Province between 1934 and 1993, before becoming a separate province.[6][9]

Demographics

Within the Russian Empire

Estimate of 1886

The area of the present-day Iğdır Province was administered by the

Turkmenchay, and 1918. According to the Russian family lists accounts from 1886, of the total 71,066 inhabitants of the districts 34,351 were Azerbaijanis (48.3%, mentioned as 'Tatars' in the source), 22,096 Armenians (31.1%) and 14,619 Kurds (20.6%).[10]

Russian Empire census (1897)

According to the Russian Empire census in 1897, the town of Iğdır had a population of 4,680, of which 3,934 (84%) were Armenians, and 559 (12%) were Russians.[11] The district had a population of 89,055 in 1897 of which Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis) constituted 46.5% of the population, followed by 30.4% Armenians, 21.4% Kurds and 1.6% Slavs.[12] Iğdır city had a population of 4,680 in the same census of which 84.1% were Armenians, 12% Slavic, 1.8% Azerbaijani and 1.5% Kurdish.[12]

Caucasian Calendar (1917)

According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Surmalu Uezd had 104,791 residents in 1916, including 55,364 men and 49,427 women, 98,212 of whom were the permanent population, and 6,579 were temporary residents. The statistics indicated

Shia Muslims to be the plurality of the population of the uezd, followed closely by Armenians, Kurds and Yazidis:[13]

Nationality Number %
Shia Muslims
 44,153 42.13
Armenians 32,686 31.19
Kurds 14,679 14.01
Yazidis 10,869 10.37
Sunni Muslims 1,801 1.72
Russians 429 0.41
Jews 95 0.09
Other Europeans
 60 0.06
Asiatic Christians 19 0.02
TOTAL 104,791 100.00

Within the Republic of Turkey

Turkish census of 1927

In the 1927 Turkish census, the district was part of

Kurdish at 47%. The whole population adhered to Islam.[14]

From comparing the statistics available in 1916 and 1927, it is evident the population of the Iğdir Province lessened by 79,582, a decline of 76% over eleven years, which is indicative of the constant state of warfare, famine and turmoil in the district between 1918 and 1920.

By 2018, the population of the district reached 197,456,[2] nearing double what it was a century prior.

Places of interest

Karasu River from Igdir

See also

References

  1. ^
    TÜİK
    . Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Li Îdirê bi roketê êrîşî binkeya leşkerî ya Tirkiyê kirin" (in Kurdish). Rûdaw. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. ISBN 9789004161214
    .
  5. OCLC 744362084
    .
  6. ^ a b Kanun No. 3806, Resmî Gazete, 3 June 1992.
  7. ^ "İl İdaresi ve Mülki Bölümler Şube Müdürlüğü İstatistikleri - İl ve İlçe Kuruluş Tarihleri" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 40. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Yöneticilerimiz". Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Doğubayazıt Tarihi Bilgileri". Diyadinnet. 3 March 2006.
  10. ^ (in Russian) Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказского края, ИГДЫРСКИЙ УЧАСТОК (1886 г.). Tiflis, 1893.
  11. ^ (in Russian) Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи, 1897 г. (Erivanskaya Guberniya), N. A. Troynitskii, Saint Petersburg, 1904, p. 144.
  12. ^ a b "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам. Российской Империи кроме губерний Европейской России". Demoscope (in Russian). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  13. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. pp. 214–221. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
  14. doi:10.9737/hist_218
    .
  15. ^ "Her Yönüyle Iğdır", Ziya Zakir Acar, 2004
  16. ^ "Armenian Architecture - VirtualANI - The Caravanserai of Zor, near Igdir". virtualani.org.
  17. ^ "Introduction of Iğdır", Iğdır Municipality Publishing, 2003
  18. ^ "Kuzeydoga.org - Resources and Information". Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

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