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Six Vilayets

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that were based on an earlier census underestimated the number of ethnic minorities, including the number of Armenians. The Ottoman figures didn't define any ethnic groups, only religious ones. So the “Armenian” population as counted by the authorities only tallied ethnic Armenians who were also
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Note: The analysis excludes certain portions of these provinces where Armenians are only a minor element. These portions are as follows: Hakkiari, in the Vilayet of Van; the south of Sairt, in the Vilayet of Bitlis; the south of the Vilayet of Diyarbekir; the south of Malatia, in the Vilayet of
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was a diplomatic usage referring to the Ottoman provinces with substantial Armenian populations. In fact, this term was known in the diplomatic language of the time as the area for which a number of Great Powers wished reforms for the benefit of the Armenians. The term was based on the official
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in 1878, in Article LXI: “The Sublime Porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security against the Circassians and Kurds.”
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1878. Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State,
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Statistical analysis of the racial elements in the Ottoman provinces by the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, 1912
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doesn't give information for separate Muslim ethnic groups such as the Turks, Kurds, Circassians, etc.
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Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire according to the 1914 official population statistics.
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Mamuret-ul-Aziz; the north-west and west of the Vilayet of Sivas.
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Verheij, Jelle (2012). Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (eds.).
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https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1878/d523
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they did underestimate the Armenian population in 1914
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Index

Six vilayets
Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Turkish
Armenian
Turkish
vilayets
Ottoman Empire
Van
Erzurum
Mamuret-ul-Aziz
Bitlis
Diyarbekir
Sivas
Treaty of Berlin
Congress of Berlin

Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople

Qizilbash
Zaza
Assyrians
Nestorians
Jacobites
Chaldeans
Circassians
Greeks
Yazidis
Persians
Lazs

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