Arapgir Explained

Type:metro district
Arapgir
Coordinates:39.0333°N 67°W
Province:Malatya
Leader Party:CHP
Leader Name:Haluk Cömertoğlu
Area Total Km2:987
Population Total:9964
Population As Of:2022
Postal Code:44800
Area Code:0422

Arapgir (Armenian: Արաբկիր; Kurdish: Erebgir[1]) is a municipality and district of Malatya Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 987 km2,[3] and its population is 9,964 (2022).[4]

It is situated at the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams. Arapgir is connected with Sivas by a chaussée, prolonged to the Euphrates river. The present town was built in the mid-19th century, but about 2 miles north-east is the old town, now called Eskişehir ("old city" in Turkish).

History

This territory is a part of historical Lesser Armenia. The old town of Arapgir was founded by the Armenian King Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni in 1021, who had exchanged his kingdom of Vaspurakan for estates in the central lands of the Byzantine Empire.[5]

Composition

There are 63 neighbourhoods in Arapgir District:[6]

Climate

Arapgir has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsa), transitioning to a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa)[7] with hot, dry summers and cold, frequently snowy winters.[8]

Demographics

Arapgir town is populated by Kurds.[9] In descending order of population, the district is populated by Turks, Kurds, and Armenians. Armenians used to be the second largest ethnic group after Turks, constituting one third of the population, but most of the population was wiped out during the Armenian genocide.[10]

Ethnic composition of the villages in Arapgir District:

History

According to Donald Quataert, Arapgir in the 1880s was made up of 4,802 Muslim and 1,200 Armenian households, with a total population of about 29,000 persons.[21] According to a METU study citing Nejat Göyünç, the city population was about 20,000 in 1911, of which more than half of the population was Armenian Christians and the rest were Muslim.[22] [23] Differing sources present differing pictures for the respective shares of ethnicities within the weavers' community. The Armenian population is reported to have suffered severely during the Hamidian massacres of 1895,[24] although, in this regard, Donald Quataert notes, with textile exports back to normal levels a year after the turmoil, in 1896, either all weavers were Muslims after all, or few Armenian weavers were killed, displaced or disrupted during the troubles.

On the eve of World War I, there were about 9,523 Armenians (1,300 houses) and 6,774 Turks living in Arapgir.[25] After the 1915 Armenian genocide, most of the Armenian population of Arapgir was killed or deported.[26]

Churches, mosques and other buildings

See also: Cathedral of Arapgir. Before the Armenian genocide Arapgir had seven Armenian Apostolic churches: Surp Astvadzadzin (Holy Mother of God) Church, not to be confused with the cathedral, Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Illuminator) Church, Surp Kevork Church, Surp Hagob Church, Surp Nshan Church, Surp Pilibos Arakel (St. Philip the Apostle) Church, Surp Sarkis Church, There were, also, one Catholic Surp Prgich (Holy Saviors) Church and one Protestant Cuğran Church.[27] There were also more than 10 schools in the town. Little is left of pre-war Arapgir, but there are still some old houses that have survived, which are Armenian origin. The town also contains the ruins of a castle, several Seljuk mosques, old cemetery and silver mines.

People from Arapgir

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Avcıkıran, Adem . 2009 . 55 . ku, tr.
  2. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi
  3. Web site: İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri. General Directorate of Mapping. 19 September 2023.
  4. Web site: Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports. 19 September 2023. TÜİK. en. XLS.
  5. Kévorkian, Raymond H. and Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du génocide. Paris: Editions d’art et d’histoire, 1992, p. 375.
  6. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle
  7. Table 1 Overview of the Köppen-Geiger climate classes including the defining criteria. . Nature: Scientific Data . en.
  8. Web site: Kar Örtülü Gün Sayısı . MGM.
  9. Book: Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. 1989. Peter Alfred. Andrews. 338. Benninghaus. Rüdiger.
  10. Olcay. Cem Bircan. 2014. Malatya Arapgir Ağzı (İnceleme - Metinler - Sözlük). Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı. 12. tr.
  11. Book: Andrews. Peter. Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey: Supplement and Index. Benninghaus. Rüdiger. 2002. 9783895002298. 96.
  12. Web site: Günyüzü Köyü. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143759/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/gunyuzu-koyu. 17 December 2016. 13 October 2021. tr.
  13. Web site: Düzce Köyü. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143713/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/duzce-koyu. 17 December 2016. 13 October 2021.
  14. News: 2020. Eski Arapgir Köy. tr. Tarih Gezisi. 13 October 2021.
  15. Ertürk. Kenan. 2000. Malatya'nın etnik yapısının siyasi hayata etkileri. tr. 131.
  16. Web site: Kayakesen Köyü. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161217143859/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/kayakesen-koyu. 17 December 2016. 13 October 2021.
  17. Book: Andrews. Peter. Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey: Supplement and Index. Benninghaus. Rüdiger. 2002. 9783895002298. 121.
  18. Çiplak. 2011. Music and Identity in Atma tribe. ITU Institute of Social Sciences. Istanbul Technical University. 34.
  19. Web site: Tarhan Köyü. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161217144039/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/tarhan-koyu. 17 December 2016. 13 October 2021.
  20. Web site: Yaylacık Köyü. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161217144059/http://www.arapgir.gov.tr/yaylacik-koyu. 17 December 2016. 13 October 2021.
  21. https://books.google.com/books?id=w61NeZ6l2kQC&dq=arapkir&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html limited preview
  22. Book: Osmanlı idaresinde Ermeniler [Armenians in the Ottoman Administration]. Nejat Göyünç. Gültepe Yayn. Ankara. 1983. tr.
  23. Web site: The Armenian question according to Takvim-i Vekayi (1914-1918) . Pınar Kundil. Middle East Technical University, Ankara. 1 May 2017.
  24. [Robert H. Hewsen|Hewsen, Robert H.]
  25. Kévorkian and Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman, pp. 375-76.
  26. Raymond Kévorkian. The Armenian Genocide: A History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011), pp. 402-407.
  27. Kévorkian and Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman, p. 376.

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