Six Vilayets

Detailed map of the Six Armenian Vilayets (in Armenian).

Six Armenian Vilayets were Armenian inhabited vilayets of the Ottoman Empire. There were:

Demographics

Ethnic groups in the Six Armenian Vilayets from the book of Viscount Bryce "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916"

Ethnic groups	Erzurum	Van	Bitlis	Mamuret-ül Aziz	Diyarbekir	Sivas	Total	%
Armenians	215,000	185,000	180,000	168,000	105,000	165,000	1,018,000	38.93
Turks	240,000	47,000	40,000	102,00	45,000	192,000	666.000	25.47
Sedentary Kurds	35,000	32,000	35,000	75,000	30,000	35,000	242,000	9.25
Nomadic Kurds	40,000	40,000	42,000	20,000	25,000	15,000	182,000	6.96
Qizilbash	25,000		8,000	80,00	27,000		140,000	5.35
Nestorians, Jacobites, Chaldeans		18,000	15,000	5,000	60,000	25,000	123,000	4.7
Zaza, Tambli, Tohariklis	30,000		47,000				77,000	2.94
Circassians	7,000		10,000			45,000	62,000	2.37
Greeks and other Christians	12,000					30,000	42,000	1.61
Yazidis	3,000	25,000	5,000		4,000		37,000	1.41
Persians	13,000						13,000	0.5
Lazs	10,000						10,000	0.38
Gipsies	3,000						3,000	0.11
TOTAL	630,000	350,000	382,000	450,000	296,000	507,000	2,615,000	100

Ethnic groups	Number	Percent (%)
Armenians	1,018,000	38.93
Nestorians, Jacobites, Chaldeans	123,000	4.7
Greeks, etc.	42,000	1.6
Christians	1,183,000	45.2
Turks	666,000	25.47
Kurds	424,000	16.2
Other Muslims	88,000	3.37
Muslims	1,178,000	45.1
Qizilbash	140,000	5.35
Zaza, Tambli, Tohariklis	77,000	2.94
Yezidis	37,000	1.41
Various Religions	245,000	9.6
TOTAL	2,615,000	100