Sivas vilayet

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ولايت سيوس
Vilâyet-i Sivas'
the Ottoman Empire
1867–1922

The Sivas Vilayet in 1900
CapitalSivas[1]
History 
1867
• Disestablished
1922
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Rûm Eyalet
Turkey

The Vilayet of Sivas

Ankara Vilayet
to the west.

At the beginning of the 20th century it had an area of 32,308 square miles (83,680 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 996,126.[5] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.[5]

History

For the early history of the area, see Rûm Eyalet.

The Vilayet of Sivas was created in 1867

vilayets under the "Vilayet Law" (Turkish: Teşkil-i Vilayet Nizamnamesi)[7] and was dissolved in 1922 by Atatürk's reorganization.[citation needed
]

From 1913 to 1916, Ahmed Muammer was the

Vali (governor) of the vilayet, and he has been accused of being complicit in actions against the Armenian population.[8]

Administrative divisions

Sanjaks of the Vilayet in 1890
Map of subdivisions of Sivas Vilayet in 1907
East Anatolian rug (detail), from the Şarkişla-Sivas region. Made ca. 1800

Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[9]

  1. Sanjak of Sivas (Sivas, Bünyan, Şarkışla, Hafik, Darende, Divriği, Aziziye, Kangal, Zara, Gürün, Yıldızeli)
  2. Sanjak of Amasya (Amasya, Havza, Mecitözü, Vezirköprü, Gümüşhacıköy, Merzifon, Ladik)
  3. Sanjak of
    Karahisar-ı Şarki (Şebinkarahisar, Alucra, Hamidiye, Suşehri (Endires till 1875), Koyulhisar
    )
  4. Sanjak of
    Trabzon Vilayet[10]), Reşadiye
    )

Not: Reşadiye (İskefsir till 1909) was nahiya center in Hamidiye kaza of Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarki till 1906.

References

  1. ^ a b Geographical Dictionary of the World, p. 1715, at Google Books
  2. Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  3. ^ Salname-yi Vilâyet-i Sivas ("Yearbook of the Vilayet of Sivas"), Sivas vilâyet matbaası, Sivas, 1293 [1876]. in the website of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4128-4245-7
  5. ^
    OCLC 22417637
  6. ISBN 978-975-19-1793-5
  7. ISBN 978-605-4030-01-9
  8. ISBN 978-0-87480-849-0
  9. ^ "Sivas Vilayeti". Tarih ve Medeniyet. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009.
  10. ^ AÇIKEL, Ali; MERCAN, Mehmet (2002). "Niksar Kazasının İdari Durumu ve Nüfus Yapısının Dini ve Etnik Açıdan Analizi (1880-1916)" (in Turkish). Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. pp. 235–257. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017.

External links

Wilson, Charles William; Hogarth, David George (1911). "Sivas" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 163.

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