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Arapgir (Armenian: Արաբկիր; Kurdish: Erebgir[3]) is a town and district of Malatya Province, Turkey. As of 2000 it had a population of 17,070 people.

Arapgir
Arapgir
Coordinates: 39°02′N 38°29′E
Country	Turkey
Province	Malatya
Government
• Mayor	Haluk Cömertoğlu (CHP)
• Kaymakam	Engin Aksakal
Area [1]
• District	973.93 km2 (376.04 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	6,120
• District	10,972
• District density	11/km2 (29/sq mi)
Post code	44800
Website	www.arapgir.bel.tr

It is situated at the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates river, 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).[4]

Demographics

Arapgir town is populated by Kurds.[5]

In descending order of population, the district is populated by Turks and Kurds and also historically had an Armenian population.[6]

Composition

Settlement	Composition
Arapgir town	Kurdish[5]
Aktaş	Turkish[7]
Alıçlı	Turkish[8]
Boğazlı	Turkish[7]
Bostancık	Kurdish[9]
Budak	Turkish[7]
Çakırsu	Kurdish[9]
Çaybaşı
Çiğnir	Turkish[7]
Çimen	Turkish[7]
Deregezen	Kurdish[9]
Düzce	Turkish[10]
Esikli	Kurdish[9]
Eski Arapgir	Turkish[11]
Eynir	Turkish[10]
Gebeli	Kurdish[9]
Gözeli	Turkish[12]
Günyüzü	Turkish[8]
Kayakesen	Turkish[13]
Kaynak	Kurdish[9]
Kazanç	Kurdish[9]
Kılıçlı	Kurdish[9]
Konducak	Kurdish[9]
Koruköy	Turkish[12]
Meşeli
Onar	Turkish[8]
Ormansırtı	Turkish[12]
Pacalı	Kurdish[9]
Pirali	Kurdish[9]
Şağıluşağı	Kurdish[9]
Selamlı	Turkish[8]
Sinikli	Kurdish[9]
Sipahiuşağı	Kurdish[9]
Suçeyin	Kurdish and Turkish[7]
Sugeçti	Kurdish[14]
Tarhan	Kurdish[15]
Taşdelen	Kurdish and Turkish[9]
Taşdibek
Ulaçlı	Kurdish[9]
Yaylacık	Kurdish[16]
Yazılı	Kurdish[9]
Yeşilyayla	Turkish[12]
Yukarı Yabanlı	Turkish[8]

History

Arapgir is a market town and received significant Seljuk Turkish arrivals in the 12th century.

Population

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.[17] 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.[18][19] 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,[20] 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.[21] After the 1915 Armenian genocide, most of the Armenian population of Arapgir was killed or deported.[22]

Churches, Mosques and other buildings

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.[23] 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,[4] old cemetery and silver mines.

People from Arapgir

• Abdullah Cevdet
• Aram Achekbashian (1867-1915), Hnchak politician
• Cemal Azmi (1868-1922), Ottoman politician
• Vahagn Davtyan, (1922-1996), an Armenian writer
• Khajag Barsamian, born 1951, the primate of Diocese of Armenian Church of Eastern America
• Zehra Bilir (1913-2007), famous singer of Turkish folk songs known as "Türkü Ana" (Mother of Folk Songs). After her death, it was revealed she was born Armenian by the name of Eliz Surhantakyan.

See also

• Arabkir District (Yerevan)
• Zompa

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arabgir". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Arapgir Towns Official Web Page (in Turkish)
• Arapgir Town Video
• Arapgir Nazar Hotel

На других языках

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[de] Arapgir

Arapgir (armenisch Արաբկիր, kurdisch Daskûzan, auch als Erebgir oder Arapkir bekannt) ist eine Stadtgemeinde (Belediye) im gleichnamigen Ilçe (Landkreis) der Provinz Malatya in Ostanatolien und gleichzeitig eine Gemeinde der 2012 geschaffenen Büyüksehir belediyesi Malatya (Großstadtgemeinde/Metropolprovinz). Seit der Gebietsreform 2013 ist die Gemeinde flächen- und einwohnermäßig identisch mit dem Landkreis.

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- [en] Arapgir

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[ru] Арапгир

Арапгир (тур. Arapgir арм-Արաբկիր) — город и район в Турции в иле Малатья. Находится в правой стороне от Евфрата в 14—15 км к востоку от его берега, в 70 км к северу от Малатьи, между городами Элязыг (Харберд) и Кемалия (Акн).[1]

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