Sivas vilayet

 ( Vilayets Of The Ottoman Empire In Anatolia ) 

The Vilayet of Sivas (, ) 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. was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, and was one of the Six Armenian vilayets.Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob (2011) Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule, 1908–1914 (revised edition) Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, page 152, 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 , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 996,126.Keane, A.H. (1909) Asia (2nd edition) E. Stanford, London, volume 1, page 459, The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

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History The Vilayet of Sivas was created in 1867(1897) Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye’nin Bin Üçyüz Onüç Senesine Mahsus İstatistik-i Umumîsi, Istanbul(First statistical yearbook for the Ottoman Empire, republished in 1997 as Osmanlı Devleti'nin ilk istatistik yıllığı, 1897 T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü, Ankara, when eyalets were replaced with vilayets under the "Vilayet Law" (Turkish: Teşkil-i Vilayet Nizamnamesi)Kapucu, Naim and Palabiyik, Hamit (2008) Turkish Public Administration: From Tradition to the Modern Age International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), Ankara, page 164, and was dissolved in 1922 by Atatürk's reorganization.

From 1913 to 1916, Ahmed Muammer was the Vali (governor) of the vilayet, and he has been accused of being complicit in actions against the Armenian population."on the basis of incriminating telegrams that his dossier referred to as alleged to be translations of Turkish official telegrams."Guenter Lewy (2005) . University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 125,

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Administrative divisions of the Vilayet:

1. Sanjak of Sivas (Sivas, Bünyan, Şarkışla, Hafik, Darende, Divriği, Aziziye, Kangal, Zara, Gürün, Yıldızeli)
2. Sanjak of Amasya (Amasya, Havza, Mecitözü, Vezirköprü, Gümüşhacıköy, Merzifon, Ladik)
3. Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarki (Şebinkarahisar, Alucra, Hamidiye, Suşehri (Endires till 1875), Koyulhisar)
4. Sanjak of Tokad (Created from Sivas sanjak in 1880 and gained Erbaa and Zile kazas from Amasya one) (Tokat, Erbaa, Zile, Niksar (Before 1880 it was part of Canik Sanjak of Trabzon Vilayet), Reşadiye)

Not: Reşadiye (İskefsir till 1909) was nahiya center in Hamidiye kaza of Sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarki till 1906.

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