The Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz,Vilayet of Ma'muretül'aziz, Redhouse Yeni Türkçe-İngilizce Sözlük, On İkinci Basım, Redhouse Yayınevi, 1991, , p. 729, Ma'mûretü'l-Azîz, Ma'muretül Aziz or Mamûretü'l-Azîz (Ottoman: Vilâyet-i Ma'muretül'azizor Ma'muretül'aziz Vilâyeti, Ma'muretül'aziz Vilâyeti Salnamesi (The Yearbook of the Vilayet of Ma'muretül'aziz), 1894, Ma'muretül'aziz Vilâyeti Salnamesi "Yearbook of the Vilayet of Ma'muretül'aziz"), Ma'muretül'aziz Vilâyet matbaası, [Elazığ], 1312 . in the website of HathiTrust Digital Library. also referred to as Harput Vilayet ( Kharberdi Vilayet’) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was also one of the Six vilayets. The vilayet was located between Euphrates and Murat river valleys. To the northwest was Sivas Vilayet.
History
The vilayet was created in 1879-80 from a part of the Diyarbekir Vilayet that included Malatya. In 1888 by an imperial order, Hozat Vilayet was joined to Mamuret ul-Aziz.
Rev. Dr. Herman N. Barnum account of Harpoot in the 1800s,
Demographics At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 575,314.Asia by A. H. Keane, page 460 The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.
In 1912, according to the Russian statistics the vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz had 450,000 residents; 182,000 were Turks, 168,000 were Armenians, 95,000 were Kurds and 5,000 were Syriac Orthodox."The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916" by JAMES VISCOUNT BRYCE, London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1916
Administrative divisions
Sanjaks of the vilayet:Mamûretu’l Aziz (Elazığ) Vilâyeti | Tarih ve Medeniyet Mamuret-ul-Aziz Sanjak (Ma'muretül'aziz, Kemaliye, Arapgir, Pütürge) Malatya Sanjak (Malatya, Besni, Adıyaman, Kâhta, Akçadağ) Dersim Sanjak (Hozat, Tunceli, Çemişgezek, Akpazar, Ovacık, Nazımiye, Mazgirt)
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