| ولايت سيوس Vilâyet-i Sivas | |||||||||
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| Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1867–1922 | |||||||||
.png) The Sivas Vilayet in 1900 | |||||||||
| Capital | Sivas[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1867 | |||||||||
• Disestablished | 1922 | ||||||||
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The Vilayet of Sivas[1] (Armenian: Սեբաստիայի նահանգ, Ottoman Turkish: ولايت سيوس, romanized: Vilâyet-i Sivas)[3] was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, and was one of the Six Armenian vilayets.[4] The vilayet was bordered by Erzurum Vilayet to the east, Mamuretülaziz Vilayet to the south-east, the Trebizond Vilayet to the north and 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]
- ^ a b Geographical Dictionary of the World, p. 1715, at Google Books
- ^ "1914 Census Statistics" (PDF). Turkish General Staff. pp. 605–606. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003514334 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.
- ^ Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob (2011) Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule, 1908–1914 (revised edition) Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, page 152, ISBN 978-1-4128-4245-7
- ^ a b Keane, A.H. (1909) Asia (2nd edition) E. Stanford, London, volume 1, page 459, OCLC 22417637