Six Armenian vilayets

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The Six Armenian vilayets were a group of eastern Ottoman Empire provinces with large Armenian populations that became central to Armenian national aspirations and later to the history of the Armenian Genocide.

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Armenian vilayets 1
Six Armenian vilayets canonical 1
Six Vilayets 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ottoman administrative division grouping
historical region
administrativeType vilayet
alsoKnownAs Armenian vilayets
Six Vilayets
associatedWithEvent Armenian Genocide
Hamidian massacres
borderedBy Persia (Qajar Iran)
linked to: Qajar Iran

Russian Empire
centralTo Armenian Question
Armenian national movement
history of the Armenian Genocide
country Ottoman Empire
demandedAutonomyBy Armenian political parties
ethnicGroupPresent Kurds
Turks
ethnicMajorityOrSignificantGroup Armenians
formerTerritoryNowIn Republic of Turkey
linked to: Turkey
geopoliticalSignificance borderland between Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire
governedBy Ottoman governors (valis)
linked to: Ottoman authorities
hasPart Vilayet of Bitlis
linked to: Bitlis Vilayet

Vilayet of Diyarbekir
Vilayet of Erzurum
linked to: Erzurum Vilayet

Vilayet of Kharput
Vilayet of Sivas
linked to: Sivas Province

Vilayet of Van
historicallyClaimedBy Armenian nationalists
historicalPeriod late Ottoman period
languageCommonlySpoken Armenian
Kurdish
Ottoman Turkish
locatedIn Asia Minor
Eastern Anatolia
notableFor interethnic conflict in late Ottoman era
large pre-1915 Armenian population
mass deportations of Armenians in 1915
partOf Ottoman Empire
historic Western Armenia
linked to: Western Armenia
religionPresent Armenian Apostolic Church
Sunni Islam
statusAfterWorldWarI incorporated into modern Turkey
subjectOf Armenian reform schemes in the Ottoman Empire
Treaty of Berlin Article 61
timeInUse 19th century
early 20th century
topicOf Armenian historiography
Ottoman studies scholarship

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Van Vilayet partOf Six Armenian vilayets
Bitlis Vilayet wasPartOf Six Vilayets
linked to: Six Armenian vilayets
Six Armenian vilayets alsoKnownAs Armenian vilayets
linked to: Six Armenian vilayets