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    The Six Vilayets (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت سته, Vilâyat-ı Sitte), the Six Provinces, or the Six Armenian Vilayets (Armenian: Վեց Հայկական Վիլայեթները Vets'...
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    Menteşe (Muğla) vilayet Malatya vilayet Niğde vilayet Van vilayet Vilayets of Europe in 1870 Vilayets in 1877 Vilayets of Europe in 1893 Vilayets of Asia in...
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    Vilayet of Diyarbakir, and turned into the Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz. It was one of the six Armenian Vilayets of the Empire. Sanjaks of the vilayet:...
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    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...
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    also significant communities in parts of Trebizond and Ankara vilayets bordering Six vilayets (such as in Kayseri). After the Ottoman conquests many Armenians...
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  • the Muslims in the Danube Vilayet and most of them in the Adrianople Vilayet and Salonika Vilayet. In the more western vilayets, the Muslims were a majority...
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    the vilayet of Sivas, and in the south with the vilayets of Bitlis, Mamuret-ül Aziz and Van. At the beginning of the 20th century, Erzurum Vilayet reportedly...
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    a United Armenia that would include the formerly Armenian-inhabited six vilayets of the Ottoman Empire (Western Armenia) and Soviet Armenia. The group...
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  • from the Armenian Highlands. The western parts of what is called the Six Vilayets came under the Ottoman Empire's control in the 16th century with the...
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    eastern Anatolia, the army was only involved in genocidal atrocities in the vilayets of Van, Erzerum, and Bitlis. Many perpetrators came from the Caucasus (Chechens...
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    range between 4,204,000 and 7,000,000, with the use of the round figure of six million Jews murdered as the best estimate to describe the immensity of the...
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  • the areas outside of the Six vilayets. Just for comparison, the Patriarchate Statistics of Armenians residing in the six vilayets (known as Ottoman Armenia)...
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    divided in six vilayets: Erzurum, Van, Hakkari, Bitlis, Hozat (Dersim) and Kars-Çildir. In 1888, by an imperial order Hakkari was joined to the vilayet of Van...
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    between delegates of the Six Vilayets to decide on a response, and another congress would take place in Sivas where every Vilayet should send delegates....
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    administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, and was one of the Six Armenian vilayets. The vilayet was bordered by Erzurum Vilayet to the east, Mamuretülaziz...
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    been part of the Erzurum Vilayet, it was then made a separate vilayet by the Sublime Porte. It was one of the six Armenian vilayets of the Empire. At the...
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    ethnic group in the region, were largely composed of immigrants from the Six Vilayets escaping persecution in the Ottoman Empire. During the First World War...
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    During the Albanian Revolt of 1912 Janina Vilayet was proposed as one of four vilayets consisting Albanian Vilayet. The Ottoman government ended the Albanian...
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    annexed to the Vilayets of Adrianople and Kosovo Vilayets only a year later, in 1877. Midhat Pasha was the first governor of the vilayet (1864–1868). During...
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    (1826–1828). Western (Ottoman) Armenia consisted of six vilayets (vilâyat-ı sitte): the vilayets of Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbekir, Kharput, and Sivas...
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    by Hodder and Stoughton. Ethnic values of Six vilayets according to presented data. Ethnic map of Six vilayets according to presented data. Although the...
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    and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet. In 1878, the League of Prizren was created by Albanians from four vilayets including the Vilayet of Kosovo. The League's...
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    the Treaty of San Stefano. The plan called for the unification of the Six Vilayets and the nomination of a Christian governor and religiously balanced council...
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    lived in the "Six vilayets" that had significant Armenian population: 2,085 in Diyarbekir Vilayet, 1,383 in Van Vilayet, 344 in Sivas Vilayet, 10 in Erzurum...
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    Battle of Van (1915) (category Van vilayet)
    missions were the overthrow of the Ottoman rule in Eastern Anatolia (Six vilayets), established branches in the city. Throughout 1895–96 Armenians in the...
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    Armenia claimed territories of the defeated Ottoman Empire covering the Six Vilayets and Cilicia. The White Russian delegation, whilst refusing to tolerate...
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    issues. The inspectors general would hold the highest position in the six eastern vilayets (provinces), where the bulk of the Armenian population lived, and...
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  • returned to their original homes in today's Eastern Turkey (composed of six vilayets, Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Mamuretülaziz, and Sivas). Their descendants...
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    outcome of the loss of Rumelia in the Balkan wars and the loss of the six vilayets in the Berlin Treaty through an alliance with a European power. With...
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  • Muslims, but the ultimate goal was to push for reforms in the six Armenian-populated vilayets of the Ottoman Empire at first, and after this failed, the...
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